Mastering Delphi 7-Marco Cantu'

Paperback: 992 pages
Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (February 20, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 078214201X
ISBN-13: 978-0782142013

It's right that it's not for a complete new comer, it's somewhat based on its previous versions.Because there's not a lot of Delphi books(not like C#... so many of them) for Delphi developers,

it's still a very good book you can get for Delphi, it gives readers basic introductions to the new features of Delphi7... very concise introductions, as well as some "old" features but author wanted to highlight.
Chapter 1 - Delphi 7 and Its IDE
Chapter 2 - The Delphi Programming Language
Chapter 3 - The Run-Time Library
Chapter 4 - Core Library Classes
Chapter 5 - Visual Controls
Chapter 6 - Building the User Interface
Chapter 7 - Working with Forms
Chapter 8 - The Architecture of Delphi Applications
Chapter 9 - Writing Delphi Components
Chapter 10 - Libraries and Packages
Chapter 11 - Modeling and OOP Programming (with ModelMaker)
Chapter 12 - From COM to COM+
Chapter 13 - Delphi's Database Architecture
Chapter 14 - Client/Server with dbExpress
Chapter 15 - Working with ADO
Chapter 16 - Multitier DataSnap Applications
Chapter 17 - Writing Database Components
Chapter 18 - Reporting with Rave
Chapter 19 - Internet Programming: Sockets and Indy
Chapter 20 - Web Programming with WebBroker and WebSnap
Chapter 21 - Web Programming with IntraWeb
Chapter 22 - Using XML Technologies
Chapter 23 - Web Services and SOAP
Chapter 24 - The Microsoft .NET Architecture from the Delphi Perspective
Chapter 25 - Delphi for .NET Preview: The Language and the RTL