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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 ...

The latest TMS XData 1.1 version introduces a major feature: Service Operations. In addition to having your objects published as REST resources automatically, you can now add server-side logic in a very easy and straightforward way. Service operatio...

Last week I was just browsing the TMS site, looking at the version numbers of existing products, when I saw TMS Scripter current version: 6.3. I see those numbers often and I’m used to them, but this time, I was a little bit shocked. Just like a fath...

TMS Sparkle is a brand new product released by TMS Software. It is a Delphi framework for network, Internet programming. As stated in the online documentation, TMS Sparkle is the core building block for several other TMS products and technologies, ...

A new framework named TMS XData is cooking in the TMS labs. It's hard to define what a framework is with a few words, especially if such framework is modular and many pieces of it can be used separately. Nevertheless, using a very broad definition I ...

We have just released TMS Aurelius 2.1 with XE4 support. This "small" release took a little longer, but with a good reason for that: thanks to the new iOS compiler provided in Delphi XE4, now TMS Aurelius supports iOS devices, in addition to the alre...

When dealing with Aurelius and any ORM framework, one common task is to build a graphical user interface to edit/display the data. Delphi users are used to the TDataset component, which not only retrieves data from the database but also act as middle...

Inheritance is one of my favorite features in Aurelius. One of benefits of using an ORM is abstracting the SQL and start thinking (almost) purely in OOP. Inheritance and polymorphism are fundamental features of Object-oriented programming, and if whe...

Using blobs in Aurelius is very straightforward and yet very powerful. In summary, all you have to do is declare your field/property as TBlob (declared in unit Aurelius.Types.Blob.pas). This is enough to map it to an existing blob field in your table...

Besides mapping tables to classes and table columns to fields/properties, Aurelius also maps relationships (foreign keys) to object associations. One nice thing about Aurelius is that such associations are defined in a very simple way: just reference...

In the example provided in the previous post, we saved a TCustomer instance in a local SQLite database which was accessed natively by TMS Aurelius. Let’s refactor that code a little bit: procedure SaveCustomer(Connection: IDBconnection; Custo...