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Sooner or later, a successful Delphi application meets a customer who needs it to work a little differently. A discount rule that depends on the region. An extra validation before an invoice is saved. A report column computed with a formula of the...

In part 1 the AI classified a mail from its text alone. Real customer mail carries more: a photo of a warning light, an invoice PDF, a history with the dealership, and in between it all, mail that should never reach a person. This post add...

In the introduction to AI Mail Desk we met Brightline Motors, a car dealership that lets an AI do the first pass over its mailbox. This post covers the core of that idea: getting mail out of Gmail and Outlook, asking an LLM what each mail is...

Describe the grid you want, and let Claude build it. With the new TMS FNC DataGrid plugin for Claude, Claude knows the TMS FNC DataGrid inside out: its columns, editors, filtering, grouping, conditional formatting, database adapter an...

A multi-brand car dealership receives hundreds of mails a week in a shared mailbox: test drive requests, breakdowns on the highway, leasing questions, invoices, trade-ins and the occasional prize scam. Someone has to read every mail, decide w...

In July we introduced TMS.NET Maps as a closed beta: the FNC Maps engine, rebuilt natively for WinForms, WPF, .NET MAUI and Blazor. Since then, closed beta testers have put it through real projects, sent us bug reports and API feedback, ...

AI is moving at a pace that's hard to keep up with — new models every few months, new providers, new ways for an assistant to actually do something instead of just answering questions. Delphi developers shouldn't have to sit on the s...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the standard that lets AI clients like Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, ... call out to your own tools. An MCP server exposes a set of functions, the assistant reads their descriptions, decides when to call them,...

For years, FNC Maps has given VCL and FMX developers one component that talks to Google Maps, Azure Maps, HERE, Mapbox, Leaflet and half a dozen other providers through a single, consistent API. It is one of those components people forget...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the standard that lets AI clients like Claude Desktop, OpenAI Desktop, Cursor, ... call out to your own tools. An MCP server exposes a set of functions, the assistant reads their descriptions, decides when to ...

When you start working with TMS AI Studio and its MCP components, one of the most natural deployment targets you’ll eventually consider is a Windows service. A Windows service gives you a persistent, always-running enviro...