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TMS FNC UI Pack 6.9 Intro Working with large datasets can be challenging. When your grid contains thousands or even millions of rows, displaying them all at once isn't just impractical—it can bring your application to a craw...

Yesterday, Microsoft showed a preview of the new HTML5/JS based tile UI that is presumably going to be integrated in Windows 8: Somehow this is not surprising, except for the fact Microsoft chose for HTML5/JS as underlying technology. At Microsoft t...

If there is one thing I do a lot is playing "find the differences" with xls and xlsx files. I do it when reverse engineering a feature: If I want to find some undocumented byte that changes some feature, I save the file in Excel with and without the...

When creating web applications, there are these days roughly 3 different browsers to target: the mouse driven desktop browser, a tablet browser with touch UI such as the iPad or a mobile phone browser such as the iPhone with a small screen and also ...

When Office 2007 was just released, there was a lot of debate whether Microsoft should have really replaced the docking toolbars by the all new ribbon interface or rather left the user the choice between the classic familiar docking toolbars and the ...

Last week, Delphi Developer Days 2011 was in Frankfurt, Germany. The Delphi Developer Days is synonym for 2 days of intense training on a wide range of subjects related to Delphi programming. Delphi veterans and the world's most well-known Delphi sp...

A couple of days ago, via an email contact with a customer, we learned about the DHS project. The DHS project stands for Digital Home Server. This is best understood as a framework to create a media and application server for the living room. Medi...

When writing documentation for your projects, components etc..., source code snippets are indispensable to clarify things. Sadly, when performing a "Copy to clipboard" from the Delphi IDE code editor, this is copied to the Windows clipboard as plain ...

Internet Explorer 9 introduces a new feature: pinned sites that offer better integration with the Windows 7 desktop. Basically this comes down to the capability to add a website to the Windows 7 taskbar and it can be controlled from the website wh...

Today Bob Swart posted a new blog about the birth of a new iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad edition of his weblog. And of course we are proud to inform you that this iBlog was created with the TMS IntraWeb iPhone Controls! Go to http://www.bobswar...

From the silly inconsistencies dept: Excel 2010: Ribbon with unprotected workbook and unprotected sheet: Excel 2010: Ribbon with protected workbook and protected sheet: ...