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A lot of the tutorials out there is crap. There several reasons for that: - lack of creativity (too many people copy the ideas of others) - lack of dedication (few take the time to write more than just a single "figure it out on your own" page) - sites like Good-Tutorials, Pixel2Life...

Seems to me that you first need to look at your network and database first. Serious, Delphi is extremely fast when it switches between forms. Seems to me that you use the database in the wrong way. Now how can you expect people to advice you if all they know is that you use SQL server? Be...

Neither does Firebird once you include the DLL. I don't see the advantage of a VCL over a dll.

There are other patches too, things you have to do by hand. To get the XP manifest to work you'll need to patch comtrl.pas fo example. Then there are also updates for the help, interbase Express, interbase driver, quickreport, informix, etc. Good luck! Btw, the runtime patch 3 is not enough to...

> Never heard of it. ... and hope to keep it that way! yeah, you do that and keep wondering why your D6 crashes on your system and not on those who have XP...

I use Firebird too. It's 100% free, stable, fast, lots of options and also has an embedded version.

Don't go for Delphi 8 if you don't like .NET, don't go for Delphi 7 if you think your sofware needs at least one update but go for Delphi 6