Cape Cod Gunny found the PDF of the Delphi 7 Developer’s Guide (1100+ pages of good reading): Cape Cod Gunny Does Delphi: The One Manual Every Delphi Programmer Should Have!.
There are in fact quite a few more PDF manuals of older Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero products:
site:http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio filetype:pdf
These I like most:
- Delphi 6: Object Pascal Language Guide.
- Delphi 6: Object Pascal Sprachreferenz (German Object Pascal Language Guide).
- Delphi 6: Anwendungen Erstellen (German Developer’s Guide).
- Blackfish SQL (this was a great .NET database; too bad this product got discontinued).
- RAD Studio Common (Delphi 2009, explaining a truckload of things including MSBuild integration).
- Generic Collections (though a dump of the online help, it is nice to have this in one big document).
- RAD Studio for .NET (interesting from a historic perspective).
- RAD Studio for .NET (German).
- The CLX version of the famous VCL Hierarchy Poster.
–jeroen
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