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Valentine’s Day is here, and there is extra love in the air today. It is not only about hearts and chocolate, but also about something that makes developers smile. Delphi is celebrating its 31st birthday!For 31 years, Delphi has i...

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 ...

TMS Diagram Studio provides a ready-to-use editor which you invoke just by calling TDiagramEditor.Execute method. It's nice because the programmer doesn't have to deal with menu items, toolbars, etc - all is already done so your end-user can edit, op...

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 ...

For all developers in the Netherlands and Belgium, an interesting workshop is planned on March 18, 2010 in Luxembourg. This is an interactive workshop, come and see Delphi 2010 in action and learn how to get the most out of Delphi 2010 for creating...

If you have been looking at the "What's new" sections in the last FlexCel releases, you might have noticed a mysterious "Office 2010 Protected mode support". Here I would like to expand on what that means, but before going any further, let's focus in...

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...

The latest version of TMS Diagram Studio brings several interesting new features. One of them is the possibility for building custom blocks. In other words, your end-users will be able to draw blocks and add them to the toolbar, having it persisted a...

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...

GDIPPictureContainer use Many components have the capability to show images, either from an imagelist or a GDI+ picturecontainer or sometimes both. The GDIPPictureContainer makes it easy to use and embed PNG, JPEG, ICO, BMP, GIF and TIFF images in ...