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The concept of developing our own versatile component set, compatible across different frameworks and operating systems, emerged following our experience in crafting components for FMX. We were eager to provide users with the flexib...

Some weeks ago, Microsoft released a new default theme and font for all Office applications, replacing the old Calibri. Yesterday, we updated FlexCel (VCL, .NET, and DLL), so you can now create a new file with those defaults too. I...

A little more than a month ago, we asked you about Lazarus supportAnd today we are delivering it. Experimental support (official support is coming once FPC gets anonymous methods in trunk), but usable and working fine. While the polls were 70% ...

As many might know, FPC announced support for anonymous methods some days ago. This was one of the last pieces missing for us to be able to port TMS FlexCel to Lazarus and FPC. So we decided to give it a try, a...

The Microsoft Excel file as industry standardThe Excel .XLSX file format is these days a de facto standard file format to exchange all kinds of tabular data. As the information in an Excel sheet is 2 dimensional, a grid control is t...

TMS FlexCel is one of our flagship products, with well over 20 years of development going into it and meanwhile supporting the near entire Microsoft Excel feature set and as development tools Delphi, C++Builder and .NET via C#, VB.NET or .. ...

After a long time coming, I am extremely happy to say that FlexCel 7 arrived. And when I say extremely happy I mean it: It has been a long road to travel, but we finally got there. So without losing more time, what is it about? In a shallo...

Another TMS day They say time flies when you are having fun... It is hard to believe it has been about 2 years since my last blog post, which was also about a TMS Day. I see two options here: Either we start doing more TMS Days so I can blog about...

Back from TMS day I am personally very happy with everything about the TMS day. It took 26 hours flying plus 6 hours in a car trip to Germany so I could speak for an hour, but it was completely worth it. There is still something magical about face...

Introducing FlexCel 6 As you might have noticed, we've just released FlexCel 6 for Delphi with iOS support (FlexCel 6 for .NET is coming soon now and it will also have iOS support). We've taken our time to release it because we didn't want this t...

This post has been updated in Apr 2013 to reflect the new changes I am really happy to say we have finally released our first version of FlexCel 5 for VCL/Firemonkey. It has been a huge lot of hard work, and even when there is still a lot of work to...