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Delphi MVP Alister Christie recently launched his book entitled “Code Faster in Delphi”. Much like his YouTube Channel that aims to help aspiring programmers to program faster and better through various tricks and with the help of some windows app development tools, his book comes with the same core function. Interestingly, in this new Learn Delphi Video, he will demonstrate a pinch of what you could possibly learn from his book. The video will show us a few easy and effective keyboard shortcuts related to selection that will help you boost your productivity. These include the CTRL + W, CTRL + Z (Smart Around), and CTRL + / shortcuts. The video will also highlight obscure keyboard shortcuts that most of you may not be well-familiar with. To learn more, feel free to watch the video above and see how you can effectively apply these keyboard shortcuts to help you code faster in Delphi.

After discovering a minor bug or an issue when styling an application when a TPanel parented to a TSplitView in Delphi, Alister Christie added it to the Quality central and reported the issue as a bug. After seven months and exactly 10 Learn Delphi videos, he finally gave us an update as the bug was finally fixed. To see if the TSplitView/ TPanel Style bug is finally working the way it should be, Alister will demonstrate the same procedure he did 7 months ago. Wonderfully, the issue was finally get resolved. To see how this bug gets fixed in Delphi and if it is really worth reporting bugs, feel free to watch the video above and learn more about Delphi and windows program development.

Now that we have learned and probably mastered how to declare string variables in a Delphi program, it is always fascinating to encounter strange behavior that might cause some confusion. Strings are indeed special in many ways. Interestingly, in this video, Alison Christie will demonstrate how to generate some strange behavior when we return a string from a function in Delphi. In this Learn Delphi video, Alister will show us some step-by-step procedures on how this strange bug-like behavior is generated in Delphi. It is also interesting to note that this strange behavior is also exhibited by variants and dynamic arrays. Feel free to watch the video above to learn more about Delphi and windows application development.

In the previous Learn Delphi Video Tutorial series for beginners, we have learned some important details about string variables and how to declare or manipulate them in a Delphi program. We have also learned the differences between a function and a procedure. The previous tutorials didn’t just define such important elements in Delphi programming but also showed us an actual demonstration of how they work and how they are being programmed from scratch for a Delphi project. Interestingly, in this new Learn Delphi video by Delphi MVP Alister Christie, we will be introduced to a brand new VCL windows development application. Alister will demonstrate how to return a value from a function in Delphi. However, this video will show us how to do such in an obscure way. According to the video, this might also cause some hard to spot bugs if you are not aware of it.

In this video, we are going to learn an interesting trick that you can easily and effectively apply to PDF using the Delphi program. In this particular tutorial, Alister Christie will show us how to manipulate a PDF file and to add Binary Page Numbers to it. This new Learn Delphi video will showcase a step-by-step demonstration on how to put page numbers in binary in a PDF. It is also interesting to note that Christine used another third-party component to make this PDF file manipulation possible. He used the Gnostice PDFToolKit and its watermarking feature which allows you to add text, images, and shape watermarks to a PDF Document. In the video, in particular, Alister decided to put Binary Page Numbers on all the pages of his book. Check out this Learn Delphi video above and learn more about windows development and Delphi.

In this new Learn Delphi Video, we will witness another interesting Delphi Programming demonstration. Delphi MVP Alister Christie will teach us how to omit Character + String Concatenation when combining strings and adding Unicode characters to your windows app development project without using Unicode in your source. In this merely six-minute-long Delphi programming tutorial, Alister will help us understand how to apply the Character + String Concatenation in a Delphi Program by showing us a comprehensive demonstration. If you want to learn more about this feature and its application in Delphi, feel free to watch and follow Alister Christie in this Learn Delphi video tutorial series.

Packt is a publisher of programming books and video courses and there are quite a few Delphi books published through their platform. They are running a sale right now where you can get each e-book (and video course) for $5 each. There are at least 9 books (most of them pretty recent) related to Delphi for sale through their platform including just published books like “Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey by Andrea Magni”. In addition to the books are there video courses from people like Muminjon Abduraimov who is a frequent contributor to the Embarcadero Blog. It is unclear when the sale will end. They have sales frequently though and even once the sale ends these are some powerful books to really teach you the ins and outs of mastering Delphi. Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkeyBy Andrea Magni Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference GuideBy Primož Gabrijelčič Delphi Programming ProjectsBy William Duarte Delphi High PerformanceBy Primož Gabrijelčič Hands-On Design Patterns with DelphiBy Primož Gabrijelčič Delphi Cookbook – Third EditionBy Daniele Spinetti , Daniele Teti Delphi Cookbook – Second EditionBy Daniele Teti Delphi CookbookBy Daniele Teti RESTful Services with Delphi [Video]By Gordan Paunovic Free eBook – Expert DelphiBy Paweł Głowacki Mastering Delphi [Video]By Muminjon Abduraimov Delphi Solutions – Part 1 [Video]By Daniele Teti Working with Delphi [Video]By Paweł Głowacki Delphi Solutions – Part 2 [Video]By Daniele Teti Head over to Packt right now and check out all of the books about mastering Delphi for only $5 each.

Delphi MVP, Alister Christie is sharing with us another Learn Delphi video to help us understand the new features of the Delphi Program in a fast and more efficient way. His lessons will help aspiring programmers to program faster and better by utilizing windows app development tools. After sharing with us the details about the new Language Server Protocol in a Delphi program, he is going to demonstrate yet another new feature. This time, we will explore the Per control styling in Delphi. This new Learn Delphi video by Christie will not just teach us how this new Per Control styling feature works but will also show us an actual demonstration. The video above will feature a quick experiment to demonstrate multiple forms in the same application with different styles. To learn more, feel free to watch the video above and see what else this amazing Learn Delphi tutorial has to offer.

Now that we have learned about variables and how to process and manipulate them in a Delphi program from the previous Learn Delphi tutorial videos, it is time to take another step higher. This time, Delphi MVP Alister Christie will show us the new Language Server Protocol in Delphi. According to the video, the Language Server Protocol is the new back-end for Code Insight. Interestingly, in this Learn Delphi video, Christie highlights some of the advantages of the Language Server Protocol in the windows program development. To learn more, feel free to watch the video above and see how he demonstrates this protocol in action.

When saving your project in Delphi, it often compiles both the executables (exe) and DCU files on the same folder location. Although it is the standard procedure, this process can be a little confusing if you are using different versions of Delphi. It turns out, all files from different versions of Delphi will be outputted on the same folder which might not just lead to confusion but also strange compile errors. To avoid these strange compile errors related to DCUs, Alister Christie from Learn Delphi TV will demonstrate how you can output your DCUs and executables into different folders for each version of Delphi. This Learn Delphi video will also discuss the environment variables and how you can add a new product name and save the files on that specific folder. To learn more about Delphi and windows program development, feel free to watch the video tutorial above.