With a new name and a new focus on CORBA, database drivers and Microsoft Back Office applications Inprise/Borland Delphi is enjoying a resurgence with a growing user base of programmers who use Delphi for rapid development of enterprise computing applications. Not to rest on success, the latest version of Delphi, version 5 includes further expansion and refinement of the 3-tier application framework introduced in Delphi 4 and has resulted in a prize-wining product. Delphi in a Nutshell is the first concise reference to Borland/Inprise' Delphi available. Succinctly collects all the information you need in one easy to use, complete and accurate volume, and goes beyond the product documentation itself. Delphi in a Nutshell starts with the Delphi object model, and how to use RTTI (Run Time Type Information) for efficient programming. The rest of the book is the most complete Delphi Pascal language reference available in print, with every language element detailed with complete syntax, examples and methods for use. The book concludes with a look at the compiler, and compiler directives discussed in depth.