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We’re excited to announce the release of TMS WEB Core v2.9, the latest evolution in our powerful RAD component-based framework for building modern web client applications using Object Pascal. Whether you're a Delphi veteran or a VCL ...

This November 14 we'll be present on the Embarcadero Event at Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event is focused in mobile development with the new Embarcadero Rad Studio XE5. Along with many other interesting speeches, I will be giving a session about...

Excel and its true colors Excel 2007 was the most innovative version of Excel since Excel 97. It has new features that are actually useful, and this is no little to say of an application as mature and complete as Excel. What else could you add to so...

IntroductionInstallers get little recognition. You don't buy a product to use the installers: you want the product, and the installer is just a way to get and use the product. At TMS, we often fail to give them recognitio...

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...

This topic has concerned me forever, but an exploit I read about a month ago triggered me to finally write something.The exploit itself is fascinating, so in case you haven't read about it, I'll leave the link here:https://googleprojec...

We are announcing a new major FlexCel version today. FlexCel 7 was mostly about rendering charts, and FlexCel 7.5 keeps on the same topic, being mostly about creating and modifying charts with code. The new Chart API The fastest way to getting s...

If you have been looking at the "What's new" sections in the last FlexCel releases, you might have noticed a mysterious "Office 2010 Protected mode support". Here I would like to expand on what that means, but before going any further, let's focus in...

This is the second part of a two-part series where we explore using FlexCel.NET and Blazor. The first part was about running FlexCel in the browser, and now we will explore running it in the server. Generating a "server-side" Blazor app While blaz...

Introduction Some days ago I was speaking with a friend, and at a certain moment I realized that we were mentioning too many statistics made on the spot. About 93.6% to be more exact. At that time I remembered that we do have access to the statistics...

If there is one thing I do a lot is playing "find the differences" with xls and xlsx files. I do it when reverse engineering a feature: If I want to find some undocumented byte that changes some feature, I save the file in Excel with and without the...