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We’ve been building something special at TMS for the past couple of years — and today, we’re opening it up to the entire Delphi community.TMS Smart Setup is now fully open source.You can find the complete source code for both the co...

As you might know, some months ago Microsoft released support for lambda functions in Excel. It was no small change: Lambdas turned the calculation engine into turing-complete, and they can change your spreadsheets in fundamental ways.The main rea...

For some time now I have been wanting to evaluate how FlexCel .NET behaves in other platforms. Not just plain Mono running in a Linux server (that's boring, we have always supported that), but some more fun possibilities. That's why I decided ...

This isn't a particularly easy to write post. There are so many things to say, many good news, some bad ones, that it gets hard to decide where to start. So let's try to start from what you should already know from the title: FlexCel 5 for VCL an...

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...

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...

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% ...

Introduction: “Friends don't let friends use OLE Automation” Before starting I would like to warn that this article is mostly about my personal views and opinions. While all articles are subjective and influenced by what the writer is thinking, it i...

PrefaceTMS Smart Setup is already in beta, and we are seeing overwhelming enthusiasm from lots of you. To be 100% honest, way more enthusiasm than what I would have expected for a command-line tool that installs packages. But there is also o...

Finally, after so many months of intense development, FlexCel 5.0 for .NET is out. This means, among other things, that I get some time for blogging and updating you guys on how things are going. I plan to make a small series of posts with fun and w...

One shortcut I use from the old Windows 3.1 days is to double click at the top-left icon of a window in order to close it: It is not that I dislike the "x" at the right of the window, or that I have irreconcilable differences with Alt-F4, it is j...