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We are proud to announce the release of TMS Smart Setup 2.0 — a major new version that takes Smart Setup beyond its original scope and transforms it into a universal build and installation platform for the entire Delph...

We released Smart Setup 2.0 about a week ago. It comes with a lot of new features, but the one that stands out the most is a simple way to add any library, not just tms libraries, to it.Why did we do that? First, becau...

PrefaceTMS Smart Setup is already in beta, and we are seeing overwhelming enthusiasm from lots of you. To be 100% honest, way more enthusiasm than what I would have expected for a command-line tool that installs packages. But there is also o...

IntroductionInstallers get little recognition. You don't buy a product to use the installers: you want the product, and the installer is just a way to get and use the product. At TMS, we often fail to give them recognitio...

Some weeks ago, Microsoft released a new default theme and font for all Office applications, replacing the old Calibri. Yesterday, we updated FlexCel (VCL, .NET, and DLL), so you can now create a new file with those defaults too. I...

A little more than a month ago, we asked you about Lazarus supportAnd today we are delivering it. Experimental support (official support is coming once FPC gets anonymous methods in trunk), but usable and working fine. While the polls were 70% ...

As many might know, FPC announced support for anonymous methods some days ago. This was one of the last pieces missing for us to be able to port TMS FlexCel to Lazarus and FPC. So we decided to give it a try, a...

This topic has concerned me forever, but an exploit I read about a month ago triggered me to finally write something.The exploit itself is fascinating, so in case you haven't read about it, I'll leave the link here:https://googleprojec...

As you might know, some months ago Microsoft released support for lambda functions in Excel. It was no small change: Lambdas turned the calculation engine into turing-complete, and they can change your spreadsheets in fundamental ways.The main rea...

In the last weeks, we've been working on a component to allow you to import and export FNC Grids to the xlsx file format. We've also used the opportunity to rename the existing "Grid Filters" and "FMX Grid Filters" to "VCL Grid Excel Bridge" and "FNC...

One of the things that intrigued me about the new Rad Studio 10.4.2 release was the improved compiler performance. Because Delphi is a fast compiler --we all know that-- but hey, it can always be faster. And 10 seconds in every compile end up countin...