This manual offers everything needed to create Windows applications with the rapid application development tool, Delphi 3. It contains advice on programming with visual components, forms, properties and events. With guidelines for creating sleek user interfaces with Delphi's Visual Component Library of menus, buttons, toolbars, status panels, multi-page dialogue boxes and text controls, it presents coverage of application development for relational database systems, graphics, communications and a variety of other uses. By studying the applications on the book's CD-ROM, programmers can observe how Delphi is used to create commercial quality Windows' applications.