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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...

Since 1995, the year tmssoftware.com started focussing on offering components & tools for developers, it was time for a fifth major overhaul of our website. Since the beginning of this year, a lot work went into this overhaul behind the scenes for th...

Some weeks ago, we released the TMS FNC UI Pack, a set of Framework Neutral Components (FNC), i.e. UI controls that can be used from VCL Windows applications, FireMonkey (FMX) Windows, Mac OS-X, iOS, Android applications and LCL framework based La...

Back in 2013, I wrote a blog on persisting application settings in the cloud like Google Chrome for example does. The solution presented at that time was using the DropBox cloud service. The technique was quite simple. Persist settings in an INI f...

TMS FNC UI Controls, a set of framework neutral controls Introduction As your customers use an ever increasing number of devices & operating systems, it is a daily challenge for us, software developers to make our software available for ...

Recently, we opened the beta for our new myCloudData.net service. myCloudData.net is both a service and SDK to put structured data in the cloud. After a long time of experience with all kinds of cloud services (based on OAUTH/REST/JSON APIs), we were...

As we have been developing UI VCL framework components since 1995 and FireMonkey framework components since 2011, we have recently been doing extensive research on approaches to create visual UI components that would simultanously support the VCL fra...

On this last day of the year, we'd like to introduce a first version of a little New Year's gift for you, Pascal developers. If you are, like us, excited about Internet of Things, embedded software development, DIY projects, controlling electronics f...

The world of IoT opens fascinating & innovative capabilities to steer & sense the physical world from small programmable devices like the Raspberry Pi. It becomes even more interesting when this can be connected to cloud services. Imagine a device th...

Where in earlier versions, the method for adding values to a chart was via multiple calls to TMSFMXChart.Series[x].AddSinglePoint(), the new virtual mode offers a faster solution that is more flexible and typically consumes less memory. This can of c...

Thinking to myself, why go through the hassle of sacrificing a desktop computer or fiddle around with VMs to test something on a Linux machine when I have here several 85mmx56mm Raspberry Pi boards laying around capable of amazing things. For my exp...