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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...

Last week, our team was brainstorming and as usual, lots of interesting and cool ideas come up. Based on these ideas, we have some more exciting technology being worked on now and coming up soon and you’ll learn about it here shortly. B...

We’ve been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of many users about the news of TMS WEB Core and also the many reactions, feedback, comments of users who immediately got their hands wet with the technology preview. From all feedback received combine...

In November 2016, I created a presentation for Embarcadero CodeRage about creating FNC custom controls. You can find this presentation including its source code here: https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/developing-user-interface-controls...

There is the famous quote: "Everything starts with a dream" and many years ago, Michael Van Canneyt, one of the main contributors to the Lazarus and Free Pascal compiler project had the dream of having the Pascal language as a first-class language f...

Given TMS WEB Core is based on a Pascal to Javascript compiler with the Javascript code running in the browser, there is not a direct way to debug the code from the Delphi IDE. From the IDE, the Javascript code is generated and the browser is laun...

In web applications, we have come to expect that we can easily integrate audio, video or services like Youtube or Google Maps to embed video or geographical functionality. TMS WEB Core provides a multimedia component with which audio & vide...

By default, the Delphi form designer serves as a WYSIWYG design surface for your web application forms. This means that the UI controls on the Delphi form will appear absolute positioned on the web page. For page layout & organization, ther...

By design, the Pascal to Javascript compiler that is integrated in the Delphi IDE via TMS WEB Core provides a thin, direct and thus high-performance layer to Javascript. This also means that it is fairly easy to interface directly to all kinds of fun...

As Delphi developers we are used to frameworks and components to take the chore out of using databases. Ever since Delphi 1, database handling was abstracted by the TDataSet & TDataSource. Wouldn't it be nice (and mainly productive as this is what is...

Over two years ago, we did deep research at TMS to create a UI control abstraction layer that would allow to create UI controls that can be used to create VCL Windows applications, FMX cross platform applications for Windows, iOS, Android, macOS and ...