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Intro Modern business applications frequently need to exchange data with Microsoft Excel. Whether it's generating reports, importing spreadsheet data, or creating documents from templates, Excel integration is a must-hav...

In all Delphi versions before Delphi 2009 update pack 3, there is a bug with the standard TDateTimePicker component with respect to handling the checkbox click when DateTimePicker.ShowCheckBox is set to true. Where on operating systems older than Win...

IntroTMS FNC Core is a universal core layer for creating rich visual and non-visual components for VCL, FMX, LCL and WEB core apps. A major part of TMS FNC Core is the ability to create and execute RE...

Intro Since the first release, TMS FNC UI Pack has been constantly evolving. Version 3.2 added a lot of great new functionality and new components (https://tmssoftware.com/site/blog.asp?post=695). Today, we wanted to focus on a component that has bee...

John Kouraklis has posted a 2-part article in his blog about using TMS Aurelius and MVVM. From the article: "Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) design pattern allows developers to write software in a way that separates applications to layers that serve the ...

In November 2016, I created a presentation for Embarcadero CodeRage about creating FNC custom controls. You can find this presentation including its source code here: https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/developing-user-interface-controls...

I'm glad to say that John Kouraklis has written yet another great book about Delphi: Introducing Delphi ORM: Object Relational Mapping Using TMS Aurelius. It's good news that more and more learning material about TMS Aurelius is being made available...

This time out, we are exploring Font Awesome, another wildly popular JavaScript library. Like Bootstrap last week, Font Awesome requires no JavaScript coding knowledge and very little in the way of HTML or CSS knowledge either.  And ...

You probably heard about the classic IoT example where someone is returning home and uses the cell phone to turn on the air conditioner remotely to enjoy a more comfortable temperature as soon as that person opens the main door.That...

There are a lot of great new features available in our FNC components and this blog will highlight the new additions to the TMS FNC UI Pack. If you want to check the improvements on TMS FNC Maps, click here.For the list of fixes and improvements, you...

The daily chore easily makes one forget the milestones reached and the goals ahead. As such, it is good, with the start of the New Year, to look back of what has been achieved in the past year and set the goals for the new year.Fi...