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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...

For a long time, we offered our customers support via email and as of today, we still do. Several years ago, our customers requested a newsgroup as alternative for email support. So, we added a couple of years ago newsgroup support. More recently, ou...

Each day, I discover emails in the Outlook junk mail folder that do not belong in the junk mail. Sometimes I really wonder on what criteria Microsoft decides an email is spam or junk. Today, I discovered that suddenly an email from Delphi.About.com (...

The TMS Advanced Poly List controls were designed from the ground up with extensibility in mind. Both at design time and at run time, custom item class instances can be added to the list. The developers guide explains how this can be done with ...

The components of the VCL framework were designed to be highly extensible & customizable. Delphi & C++Builder developers are used to get the desired behavior by modifying properties, using events or when this is not sufficient, to create a descendent...

As you most likely know, Embarcadero is hard at work on the next version of Delphi (Roadmap). The main feature set for Delphi 2011 will be the capability to do cross platform development for Windows and Mac OS-X (with a preview for Linux). To align ...

Introduction Something that immediately draws the attention in the just RTM'd Office 2010 is the new application menu. It is a very clearly laid out page of the various actions and options that can chosen & configured from there. On closer ...

I still remember as if it was yesterday, 15 years ago around this period of the year, I did a 100km trip to a warehouse near Brussels to pick up my preordered copy of Delphi 1. I had asked the distributor to give me a call the day they would receive...

We've been working hard internally on new software to make the life easier of our customers who bought product bundles like TMS VCL Subscription or TMS Component Studio. The goal was to provide a tool that would allow our customers to get access to t...

In December, we have released an iPhone application and a Delphi plugin that enables you to track our latest releases anytime and anywhere. From the Delphi IDE Plugin, you can get notifications of our latest components and see the release history ...

Using Windows Explorer from time to time to open ZIP files or create ZIP files, I knew that Windows can internally manage ZIP files so it was a matter of searching via what API this functionality is exposed to use it from applications. And yes, it is...