DT offers a core set of courses aimed at covering the Application Lifecycle, from requirements gathering, analysis and design to development, testing, process and project management.

Delphi - Discovering the Borland Developer Studio with Delph

Course Overview
This 2-day course teaches basic features of the Borland Development Studio. The course is essential for developers who are new to BDS wish to familiarize themselves with the IDE’s features and concepts. The course helps programmers, developers and architects who are new to Borland Developer Studio.

What will I learn?
Many organizations have been challenged with successfully delivering application development projects on-time and within budget. Too many projects fail to complete and those that do are often late because of scope creep, feature creep, and faulty transitions between process phases. Organizations have invested in development tools to address scope and budget issues but are still challenged by inefficiencies that delay, or derail, their application development projects. This course is intended to ensure that adopters begin their usage of BDS effectively. This course will teach you the basic essentials of BDS and ensure you quickly obtain the benefits of the best development tool for the Win32 and Microsoft .NET Framework platform.

Course Style
This course is hands-on with practical exercises throughout. We provide you with individual PC’s so that you are able to work alone. Class sizes are kept small so that you will receive personal attention. You will take away extensive printed course material, which will be of on going use to you in your work.

Course Contents
Introduction
+ What is BDS?
+ What’s new for Delphi developers
+ Compatibility between Delphi versions
+ Introduction and conceptual framing module
BDS look-and-feel
+ IDE divisions
+ Part 1 – Menus, Buttons, Personalities and Desktop Toolbar
+ Part 2 – Structure View
+ Part 3 – Object Inspector
+ Part 4 – Project Manager, Model View and Data Explorer
+ Part 5 – Tool Palette
+ Part 6 – Form Designer, Code Editor
+ Part 7 – Message Panel and Debug Panel
BDS Languages
+ Delphi Language
+ C# Language
+ C++ (Win32) Language
Types of Projects
+ Win32 Applications
+ .NET Applications
Language Essentials
+ Introduction
+ Language Basics
+ Data Types
+ Procedures and Functions
Component Based Development
+ Introduction
+ Components in Delphi
+ Naming convention
+ Working with components
Database
+ What is a database?
+ Why use a database in an application?
+ Local and remote databases
+ Transactions and concurrency
+ Referential integrity, stored procedures and triggers
+ Support for database technologies in BDS 2006
+ Database exercises
Introduction to Borland ALM
+ Borland solutions for the Application Lifecycle
+ Phase-centric ALM solutions
+ Requirements management with CaliberRM
+ Software modelling with Together

Prerequisites
Working knowledge of the Windows operating systems. Basic experience in Windows programming.

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Duration
2 days