Delphi 2006 and ADO.NET 1.1 paperbacks on Lulu

I've just published two Delphi 2006 specific paperbacks on Lulu: Delphi 2006 Development Essentials and a .NET 1.1 specific Delphi 2006 ADO.NET 1.1 Database Development manual. Both are now available from my Lulu Storefront.


Delphi 2006 Development Essentials is my first courseware manual covering Borland Delphi 2006 for Win32 and .NET 1.1. Topics include an introduction to .NET 1.1, the Delphi 2006 IDE, Refactoring, Delphi 2006 Language Enhancements, Windows Forms Applications, VCL and VCL for .NET, migrating Win32 applications to .NET, Unit Testing with DUnit and NUnit, interoperability between Win32 and .NET, and Modelling with Together.
The book consists of 228 pages (74,631 words) including exercises and answers (in the back).


Delphi 2006 ADO.NET 1.1 Database Development is my Delphi 2006 courseware manual about Database Development for .NET 1.1 developers. Covering ADO.NET 1.1, Borland Data Provider for .NET (BDP), as well as an introduction to Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) III, ASP.NET Web Services and .NET DataSets, an introduction to .NET Remoting, plus .NET Remoting using BDP.
Almost 170 pages (over 55,500 words) including exercises and answers in the back.

Source code for examples and exercises available upon request by e-mail (links are provided in the "thank you" e-mail you get from Lulu.com as well).