Besides listing all core classes and methods, this book also provides a number of dos and don'ts experts to master the newest features in Delphi's Object Pascal. The core of this book is the reference section on the built-in Delphi language features and other useful information in this tool development. While this title concentrates on the language of "core" (instead of Delphi's extensive support for visual components), there is little doubt that this will be useful if you work with the tools every day. This book also provides guidance continued to lean on the latest and greatest in new language features in Object Pascal. (Delphi has its own convention here, and this book will fill you if you are coming to Object Pascal from another programming language.) Along the way, the author offers a variety of expert nuggets on when to use (and when to avoid) using certain features of Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Overview of Delphi Object Pascal, units and libraries, data and string types, exception handling, file I / O, classes and objects, inheritance, constructors and destructors, interfaces, reference counting, Windows messages, memory management strategies, methods virtual table (VMTs), the nature, use, virtual and dynamic methods TypInfo, automated methods and COM, the type of information, Delphi and could stop, programming along with threads, synchronization, thread local storage techniques, Delphi language reference, system constants, operator reference , compiler directives, code samples, and programming tips.