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Intro Not every data operation belongs on screen. Sometimes you need to load a data set, filter it, sort it, group it, calculate summaries, and export the result without showing a grid at all. That is where the headless data layer in TMS...

Over the past couple of years, appearances as these from Windows XP, Office 2003 / Office 2007, Visual Studio .NET and now Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Terminal styles have set standards for how an application should look. The techniques for definin...

Office 2007 hints All controls that are part of the TMS Advanced toolbars & menus feature an extended Office 2007 style hint. Office 2007 hints are more sophisticated than regular Delphi hints. An office 2007 hint has a title, an optional pict...

TMS Advanced ToolBars & Menus support Office 2003 style docking toolbars & menus as well as Office 2007 ribbon style toolbars. Building applications with Office 2003 style docked toolbars starts by using TAdvDockPanel which is the componen...