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• Automatic minify/uglify when compiling in release mode from the IDE
• Automatic JavaScript file versioning
• Easy UI for HTML element binding at design-time
• Visual form inheritance support
• Frames support
• Design-time editors for HTML template properties
• Firestore support via TWebFirestoreClientDataSet
• myCloudData.net support via TWebmyCloudDBClientDataset
• SQLRestDBBridge support via TWebSQLRestClientDataset
• Push notifications via TWebPushnotifications component
• Web crypto API wrapper classes
• Regular expression API wrapper class TRegEx
• Local file access via TWebFilePicker, TWebFileUpload
• TWebLookupComboBox, TWebDBLookupComboBox
• Redesigned TWebMainMenu
• New features for TWebGoogleMaps
• New TWebImageZoomControl
• Support for selecting the Electron version
• Component attribute for JS & CSS lib dependencies
• Update to latest pas2js compiler and pas2js RTL
• Redesigned TWebMainMenu with responsive behavior / hamburger menu design for smart phone browsers

Get started:

More information:

There is a lot to discover in TMS WEB Core v1.3 Ferrara. Our colleague Holger Flick made it is easy & fast for you to discover what is new with a video covering the details. In about 10 minutes, you will know all about the new release. Holger made the video in English as well as German language.

This is the English video:

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More information:

Intro

Features

• High-quality (anti-aliasing) drawing of blocks and lines
• Open architecture for building custom blocks and lines inherited from base classes
• Ready-to-use flowchart, arrow and electric blocks
• Linking system allow customizable link points and information retrieval of connected blocks
• Block gradient, shadow and bitmap
• Full block customization: pen, brush, color, selection color, minimum width and height
• Block text customization: horizontal and vertical alignment, font, word wrap, clipping
• Customizable link points in blocks
• Full line (link) customization: pen, source arrow shape, target arrow shape
• Arc & bezier lines, polygon objects
• Block rotation supported (including text, bitmap and gradient)
• Separate TTMSFNCBloxToolBar component for easy diagram editing with no line of code (needs TMS FNC UI Pack)
• Diagram snap grid
• Diagram rulers
• Saving/Loading diagram to/from file and stream
• Diagram zoom in/out
• Panning
• Helper classes TTMSFNCBloxBlockDrawer for easy custom drawing on custom blocks
• Object deletion and inserting, zooming, and more.

Compatibility

Getting Started

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Company history:

Expertise:

• VCL UI Pack
• Business Suite Products (XData, Remote DB, Sparkle)
• Web Core
• FNC Framework solutions
• On-Site Training

Primary involvement in TMS products:

• Trainings
• Recording tutorial videos
• Speaking at conferences (in-person or virtual)

What's next?

TMS Partnership:

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Finally:

TMS Logging is a compact cross-platform logging framework offering informative log output to a flexible number of targets with a minimum amount of code. EurekaLog is a first-class exception logging tool for Delphi. We have recently joined forces and worked together to allow you to integrate both in an easy way.

So, if you are using TMS Logging in your application - it may be useful to get TMS Logging output as part of your EurekaLog's crash reports, so you will get a better understanding of execution flow of your application before crash.

TMS Logging supports custom output handlers, so you may simply redirect all logging from TMS Logging to EurekaLog by:

uses
  TMSLoggingEurekaLogOutputHandler;

TMSLogger.RegisterOutputHandlerClass(TEurekaLogOutputHandler);

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uses

  VCL.TMSLogging,  // for TMS Logging routines
  // You can also use TMSLoggingHTMLOutputHandler
  // Please, refer to TMS Logging documentation 
  TMSLoggingTextOutputHandler,
  EException,      // for TEurekaExceptionInfo

  ESysInfo,        // for GetFolderTemp
  EEvents;         // for RegisterEventZippedFilesRequest
 
var
  // File name for TMS log file
  GTMSLogFileName: String;
 
// Initialize TMS Logging to save log to text file
// This is just an example
// You may replace/customize it
// Please, refer to TMS Logging documentation
procedure InitTMSLogging;
begin
  GTMSLogFileName := GetFolderTemp +
    ChangeFileExt(ExtractFileName(ParamStr(0)), '.txt'); 

 
  TMSLogger.RegisterOutputHandlerClass(TTMSLoggerTextOutputHandler, [GTMSLogFileName]);
end;
 
// Will be called when EurekaLog wants to 
// add additional files to packed bug report file (.elp)
procedure PackLogFile(const ACustom: Pointer; 
  AExceptionInfo: TEurekaExceptionInfo; 
  const ATempFolder: String; 
  AAttachedFiles: TStrings; 
  var ACallNextHandler: Boolean);
var
  LFileName: String;
begin
  // Get a temporary filename 
  LFileName := ATempFolder + ExtractFileName(GTMSLogFileName);
 
  // Copy the log file 
  CopyFile(PChar(GTMSLogFileName), PChar(LFileName), False);
 
  // Pack the file to EurekaLog's crash report 
  AAttachedFiles.Add(LFileName);
end;
 
initialization
  // Initialize TMS Logging to save log to text file
  InitTMSLogging;
 
  // Ask EurekaLog to add more files to .elp reports
  RegisterEventZippedFilesRequest(nil, PackLogFile);
end.

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 uses

  VCL.TMSLogging,  // for TMS Logging routines

  EException,      // for TEurekaExceptionInfo

  EEvents;         // for RegisterEventExceptionNotify
 

// Tell EurekaLog to log crash info with TMS Logging
procedure LogExceptionToTMS(const ACustom: Pointer;
  AExceptionInfo: TEurekaExceptionInfo;
  var AHandle: Boolean;
  var ACallNextHandler: Boolean);
begin
  // Log exception 
  TMSLogger.Error(Format('[%s] %s',
    [AExceptionInfo.ExceptionClass,

     AExceptionInfo.ExceptionMessage]));
 
  // Log exception's call stack
  TMSLogger.Info(AExceptionInfo.CallStack.ToString);
 
  // You may also log other properties of AExceptionInfo
  // Or you can use routines from ESysInfo to log process and environment info
  // Of you can use BuildBugReport function to compose bug report text
end;
 
initialization

  // Tell EurekaLog to log crash info with TMS Logging
  RegisterEventExceptionNotify(nil, LogExceptionToTMS);
end.

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• April 2019:
  TMS FNC Cloud Pack: Seamless access to cloud services from Windows, cross-platform and the web. Included in the TMS FNC Cloud Pack is the ability to create/implement your own REST service client(s).
• June 2019:
  TMS WEB Core Padua: New additions on many levels: Object Pascal to JavaScript compiler improvements, new web frameworks & controls support, new UI components, improved IDE integration.
• July 2019:
  TMS VCL UI PACK: TMS Component Pack became TMS VCL UI Pack! All components were revised for high DPI & VCL Styles support and internally the TMS Component Pack completely moved to a new build platform that was already in use for our cross-platform FMX & FNC products.
• November 2019:
  Introduction of a new groundbreaking product: "TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code"
  At the TMS Training Days in Düsseldorf, Germany as well as at the Be-Delphi conference in Belgium, José León Serna (creator of Delphi for PHP & former Embarcadero IDE lead architect) presentated the preview of TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code. After more than a year of hard work & intensive collaboration with the TMS team, this technology preview, with an almost complete feature set for the first release, was presented to the audiences.
• December 2019:
  TMS WEB Core Ferrara: 20 new features were added to TMS WEB Core v1.3.
• December 2019:
  TMS FNC Blox: With FNC we aim for reusable code and when bringing TMS FNC Blox to the WEB we wanted to maintain compatibility with FMX, LCL and VCL as much as possible. By rewriting the persistence part of TMS FNC Blox and integrating it into TMS FNC Core it is possible to load blox files that have been saved in a VCL, LCL or FMX application into a TMS WEB Core client application. The code for creating and registering custom blocks in VCL, LCL or FMX is also compatible with TMS WEB Core.
• January 2020:
  Coming up in January 2020: TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code BETA will be available for TMS ALL-ACCESS users!

• TMS Subscription Manager categorizes the products per technology : VCL, WEB, FMX, BIZ, FNC, DEV, .NET, IntraWeb and LCL.
• Per product, you get a description, link to the product webpage, info on latest available version and release date, info on your last download version and download date and info on your last product install version and date.
• You can mark specific TMS products as your favourite products.
• It allows you to start multiple downloads.
• Behind the scenes, TMS Subscription Manager keeps a backup of any product versions you have downloaded. Right-click on the downloaded version number cell per product and from the context menu you can see all available versions (if there are any) and activate another version for install.
• The TMS Subscription Manager keeps you always informed about the validity of your subscription and will guide you to the renewal order upon expiry.
• From the TMS Subscription Manager there is a comprehensive list of links to interact with us, via email, social media, forums, RSS, Youtube videos ...

With great pleasure we announce another great collaboration with Wagner Landgraf, architect TMS Business tools. Wagner Landgraf is now organizing online training courses for TMS WEB Core! If you work with Delphi and haven't lived in a cave in the last two years, you certainly know what we are talking about!

TMS Web Core revolutionized web development with Delphi. It is the first Delphi framework to be able to produce a truly 100% WEB HTML/JS application, without the need for binaries, executables, where you can deploy the application to any hosting server.

This new paradigm introduces a number of new concepts for the traditional Delphi programmer. This course covers all of these concepts from both general web applications and TMS Web Core specifics.

You will learn concepts from the beginning: what is a web application, how does it work, what are single page application (SPA) and multiple page application (MPA), what is HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, AJAX.

From this foundation, you will learn how to develop Web applications with Delphi and TMS Web Core, learn about the structure of the Web Core application, language aspects, integration with JavaScript, how to use the visual framework, up to using backend databases, whether using TMS XData or other server framework of your choice, creating screens for CRUD functions.

The course has a conceptual introduction, but from there it becomes extremely practical, hands-on, with virtually every source-code lesson available for you to execute, modify, debug, and learn!


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Who is this course for?

What will you learn?

• Web Application Concepts: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, Bootstrap.
• Web Application Architecture: History, MPA, SPA.
• Create a default directory structure and use Build Configuration TMS Web Core: Project installation, configuration, and structure.
• Pascal / JavaScript Compiler: Language integration with JS, RTL, basic types, closures, asm, RTTI, etc.
• TMS Web Core Visual Component Library - Creating the UI.
• Working with data via backend: AJAX, ClientDataset, XData.

Prerequisites

• Know the Delphi language
• Knowing how to use Delphi / RAD Studio IDE
• Delphi XE7 or later installed
• TMS WEB Core (free trial or registered version) if you want to run the examples

Do you find it difficult to understand spoken English?

Full source code for examples

Special offer for YOU!

To our own surprise, over the last years, we have written almost 450 blog articles. That is an amazing amount and most of these blog articles contain valuable technical information and tips about our products. At the same time, we noticed that older blog articles were rarely read and we found ourselves time and time again pointing to older blog articles when giving our users guidelines in response to support communication.

In a nutshell, a reorganization of how our blog articles can be viewed and more importantly how to navigate in these blog articles was overdue.

So we decided to revamp our blog page to make it easier to recover older blog posts for everyone.

The following new options are available now:

• Featured post: An important post can remain on top of the page to make it stand out
• A text search on keywords
• Voting on blog posts to indicate what is relevant and liked by you
• Filter posts by technical (framework) category
• Filter posts by product name
• Filter posts by author
• Sort posts by popularity based on the number of votes
• Sort posts on the number of pageviews

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Architecture based on orginal FireMonkey classes   Not easy to extend/customize   Performance is hard to achieve when complex UI controls involve many objects Basic design-time integration Supports the FMX framework only	New independent architecture built-up from scratch Easily extendible with many customization options/events Faster performance, high quality graphics Enhanced design-time integration Supports multiple frameworks (FMX, VCL, LCL and WEB) High level of compatibility with older FMX code

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Unique advantages of FNC

• an easy maintainable single-source cross-framework/cross-platform code base
• seamless integration in new and existing applications, can be mixed with other regular FMX or VCL controls
• high performance and high quality graphics
• intuitive & consistent property layout to smoothen the learning curve
• only 1 license & only 1 learning curve to create applications for VCL, FMX, LCL and WEB

Large range of FNC controls available

• TMS FNC Blox: Add diagram and flowchart capabilities to your application.
• TMS FNC Chart: Fully cross-platform chart for business, statistical, financial & scientific data
• TMS FNC UI Pack: Powerful, feature-rich UI controls for 4 frameworks and 5+ operating systems
• TMS FNC Dashboard Pack: Create dashboard applications for Windows, cross-platform and the web
• TMS FNC Cloud Pack: Seamless access to cloud services from Windows, cross-platform and the web
• TMS FNC Component Studio: Our time & cost saving bundle of all FNC components

At the end of 2019 we made a big announcement about at TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code. In collaboration with José León Serna (creator of Delphi for PHP & former Embarcadero IDE lead architect) and the TMS team, we presented a preview with an almost complete feature set for the first release.

Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source, extensible and cross-platform IDE. This means that the Visual Studio Code IDE works exactly the same on Windows, macOS and Linux and this also with full high-DPI support. Visual Studio Code is an initiative from Microsoft and focuses on being open & extensible.

José León Serna has created many useful videos about Visual Studio Code. The videos are available on our social media. Below is a list of the existing videos and many more will follow!

• TMS Web Core for VS Code (I) Structure Panel - Part 1
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (II) Structure Panel - Part 2
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (III) Object Inspector - Part 1
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (IV) Object Inspector - Part 2
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (V) Object Inspector - Part 3
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (VI) Tool Palette
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (VII) Form Designer - Part 1
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (VIII) Form Designer - Part 2
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (IX) Form Designer - Part 3
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (X) Form Designer - Part 4
• TMS Web Core for VS Code (XI) Building, Running and Debugging

What's next

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Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. TMS WEB Core TMS WEB Core enables to build modern web client applications following the single-page architecture that also other modern frameworks like Angular, vue.js, React employ.. TMS WEB Core is offered at 395 EUR. But this month, when you participate in the challenge, you get 20% extra discount, so for 316 EUR only.

Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. TMS FNC Component Studio With this bundle you have the freedom to create powerful apps of your choice. Separate purchase of the products will cost you 460 EUR. This bundle is offered at 295 EUR, but this month, participants can get this for discount price 236 EUR.

Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. TMS VCL UI Pack Create modern-looking & feature-rich Windows applications faster with over 600 components in one money and time saving bundle for Delphi & C++Builder. Regular bundle price is 295 EUR, but only this month, when you participate in the challenge, you get an extra 20% discount on this bundle, so this is 236 EUR only!

Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. TMS Business Subscription TMS Business Subscription is our bundle framework that includes: TMS Aurelius, TMS XData, TMS Scripter, TMS Data Modeler, TMS RemoteDB, TMS Echo, TMS Diagram Studio and TMS Workflow Studio. You can purchase your license for regular price 395 EUR. But when you participate in the challenge, this month you can get your license for 316 EUR only!

Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. TMS ALL-ACCESS TMS ALL-ACCESS is our no-nonsense bundle, where you get all our components for just 1695 EUR, instead of 5870 EUR. And yes, when you participate in the challenge, on top of that you get 20% extra discount this month! So you can get all our components for 1356 EUR.

Note: This discount offer is valid until February 29, 2020. Ready, set, go... The registrations are open from February 1 until February 13. The winners will be announced on February 14 on our social media and blog page! Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view. All the best!

Unless you have been living under a rock, you will know that Microsoft has been busy transforming their Edge browser to be based on Google Chromium. This means Edge ditches the EdgeHTML rendering engine as well as its JavaScript engine ChakraCore. Now Edge will use the Blink rendering engine and the V8 JavaScript engine. Some consider this excellent news, especially for browser compatibility for your websites (one less rendering engine to check against), others are sceptical that this reduces competition in the browser world. As always, it is hard to please everyone.
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Now, for Delphi developers this is fantastic news! With adopting Chromium, Microsoft also did the necessary effort to provide the ability to host the browser in your native Win32 or Win64 applications! And yes, I hear your relief. Finally, after all those years, developers can finally get rid of the dependency on the Internet Explorer activeX with all its rendering and security issues and less and less website compatibility every day.
As Microsoft will roll-out Edge Chromium to Windows 10 machines (their only actively supported Windows operating system these days). This means that the solution eventually will require no extra deployments with your Delphi executables (as opposed to using the standalone CEF4 Chromium engine that requires a myriad of DLLs and other files to deploy).

Being very excited about this, we decided to already prepare for this and develop a browser component for Delphi (and in the process also for Lazarus) that is based on the new Microsoft Edge Chromium. While working on this, we thought we could as well create it for VCL Delphi applications as for FMX (FireMonkey) Windows applications (and LCL Lazarus applications).

Oh wait, I said one component that can be used in 3 different frameworks? Yes, for 4 years already we have our FNC technology (Framework Neutral Components) that allows us to do this.

So, in a nutshell, in an upcoming TMS FNC Core update, expect the new web browser to be included that uses Edge Chromium out of the box. As an extra cherry on the cake, this browser will offer live preview of pages at design-time.

Here is Delphi 10.3 Rio showing a VCL application with a live Edge Chromium based browser component:
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Here is Lazarus 2.0.6 showing an LCL application with a live Edge Chromium based browser component:
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Microsoft is doing a staged rollout of their new Edge Chromium since Jan 15, 2020, but if your Windows 10 was not yet updated with it, you can download it here.

Get started with our FNC components for VCL applications, FMX applications, LCL applications and TMS WEB Core clients today. Shortly, we will release the TMS FNC Core update with the new Edge Chromium support. Stay tuned also for more extremely exciting new developments brewing in our labs and coming to FNC soon!

Our Delphi static code analysis tool just got updated. TMS FixInsight is your indispensable tool to enhance your Delphi code quality and make it less prone to errors than your Delphi compiler warns for.
TMS FixInsight catches numerous classic patterns of mistakes in code and with the new version v2020.2, three new rules have been added:

C11
Exception class name should start with 'E'
This is an obvious rule. TMS FixInsight will now just produce a hint that exception class name should start with E so your code remains as consistent as possible.

W535
Enumerated constant(s) missing in case statement
In the code below, etThree is missing from the case structure and will trigger a warning.

Example:

type
   TEnumType = (etOne, etTwo, etThree);

var
   EnumType: TEnumType;
begin
   case EnumType of // <= W535
     etOne: ;
     etTwo: ;
   end;
end;

type
   ISomeInterface = interface
   ['{AAAAAAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAA-AAAAAAAAAAAA}']
   end;

   TSomeClass = class(TInterfacedObject, ISomeInterface)
   end;

procedure DoSomethingWithSomeInterface(const SomeInterface: ISomeInterface); begin
   // ...
end;

procedure DoSomethingWithSomeClass;
begin
   // ...
   // After this call TSomeClass instance will not be released.
   // There is a potential memory leak.
   DoSomethingWithSomeInterface(TSomeClass.Create); // <= W536
   // ...
end;

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Reflecting back on the past 25 years, it was nothing short but an exciting Fantastic Voyage. Without Delphi, my life would have been radically different and TMS software would not be what it is today. Here is a short timeline of what were milestones for us in these 25 years:

1995: Delphi 1 release. I literally couldn't wait till the Delphi 1 box landed in the software store in Belgium. I drove about 100km to the distribution center to pick up my Delphi 1 box the day the shipment of boxes arrived from the airplane in the depot. Being a self-employed software consultant, I instantly switched my development projects from Turbo Pascal for Windows to Delphi

1996: Delphi 2 release. The move from 16bit to 32bit Delphi applications instantly gave our programs a huge headroom and increased stability.

1998: TMS software is recognized as Borland Technology Partner. I was especially proud to become part of the Borland inner circle of partners and being involved in product betas and travel numerous times to Scotts Valley to learn about new developments.

1998: I started a collaboration with Wagner Landgraf. Wagner is living & working in Brazil and also doing Delphi component development. Now, 22 years later, there is not only a strong collaboration but also a strong friendship and Wagner Landgraf is instrumental in key TMS products and helps steering the direction of the company.

1999: Borland launched Kylix. "Living la vida Linux" was the tagline of Delphi developers these days. Although it was a bumpy road, we also offered CLX components that could be used to create native Linux applications from Kylix, the Linux cousin of Delphi.

2000: The company tmssoftware.com bvba was officially established. I made the move from registered single & self employed software consultant doing mainly component development to work as owner of the established company tmssoftware.com bvba. Yes, in October this year we have 20 years of the official company establishment to celebrate!

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2000: I started a collaboration with Adrian Gallero. Adrian is working out of Uruguay on the Flexcel Delphi product. This year we have 20 years of collaboration and friendship to celebrate! Together with Wagner Landgraf, we still regularly brainstorm on every new step the company makes.

2001: TMS launches IntraWeb components. Atozed created a game-changer with IntraWeb, enabling RAD component based web development from our beloved Delphi IDE. Delphi developers were no longer confined to developing Windows applications but could embrace the web from now on.

2003: In the Belgian office our first colleague Bart Holvoet joins the TMS family. Bart is initially dedicated to IntraWeb development. Up till today, Bart is still working at TMS as expert mainly in Delphi and web development.

2004: Borland brings Delphi 8 for .NET. Since Microsoft introduced the .NET framework, it has taken the development world by a storm and Borland judged it couldn't stay behind and introduced a compiler to generate .NET code from Delphi. This was based on the VCL.NET framework, a variant of the Win32 VCL framework. As customers expected and demanded to move their applications to .NET, we did all the hard work to make our VCL components VCL.NET compatible.

2007: The Belgian team grows with Pieter Scheldeman joining. After so many years, Pieter oversees all cross-platform and especially the FNC framework among many other things.

2009: Codegear brings Unicode to Delphi. Having been stuck in the ANSI zone for so long, an equally liberating move was the introduction of Unicode out of the box as default string type.

2011: Delphi XE2 brings Win64bit development to Delphi developers. The 32bit compiler that served from 1996 till today got a big brother DCC64 to brings our Delphi applications to the 64bit memory space.

2011: Delphi XE2 kicks-off the cross-platform era. Delphi XE2 is the landmark of a major new direction Delphi is taking with bringing cross platform development, initially for iOS for Apple's new iPhone. The FireMonkey framework (FMX) is the cross-platform counterpart of what VCL is for Windows specific development. Excited with this new world opening for Delphi developers, we get started developing FMX components right-away.

2012: Delphi XE3 brings the Delphi compiler to iOS and OS-X. As in Delphi XE2 it was still using the FPC compiler to compile applications to iOS, now Embarcadero offers its own compilers for iOS and OS-X

2013: Delphi XE5 brings Android support to Delphi. The cross-platform family extends and now spans Win32,Win64,iOS,macOS and Android. TMS ensures our family of FMX components are compatible for all these platforms

2017: Delphi 10.2 Tokyo adds Linux support. Delphi extends the range of supported platforms once again with support to build Linux applications. After the first feet in the Linux territory with Kylix in 1999, Delphi is back generating Linux applications but this time from a Windows IDE.

2018: TMS Launches TMS WEB Core. Based on Pascal to JavaScript compiler, TMS WEB Core empowers Delphi developers to develop rich web client applications in RAD component based way just like Delphi 1 introduced with the VCL and based on the Object Pascal language.

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2020: TMS Launches its Academic License program. Realizing how important it is to nurture the next generation of enthusiast and passionate Delphi developers, we want to contribute in our way to empower young aspiring developers to discover the power of Delphi. Read more about the TMS Academic Program here.
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It is now Feb 14, 2020. 25 years after the Delphi 1 in 1995 and I am extremely thankful for being blessed with living my passion for all these years. I am very happy, honored and respectful to be part now of TMS family of 17 bright, intelligent, passionate and creative Delphi developers. I am proud and humble at the same time for the trust of so many customers world-wide creating great Delphi applications with our components. I am filled with gratitude for the many friends I learned to know all around the world sharing the passion of software development and Delphi. I am ready for the next 25 years of passion and adventure. Are you?

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February 14th is a very special date!

• Everyone celebrates Valentine’s Day.
• Delphi developers celebrate Delphi’s birthday.
• And today TMS sets another milestone with the launch of the TMS Academic Program!

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1. Register for a free TMS VCL UI Pack Academic license with a school or university email address
   
   
2. Receive your credentials to login on our website via your student email address
   
   
3. Login and download your free TMS VCL UI Pack Academic installer
   
   
4. Install the product for the Delphi Community Edition
   
   
5. Enjoy being part of the TMS family with full access to our website, forums, product updates for 1 year and develop great Delphi VCL applications

Begin this month we announced a special Valentine challenge to all Delphi users.

Everyone could simple share a screenshot of their project, created with Delphi using TMS components and win free licenses.

We counted the number of likes, shares and comments on Facebook and Twitter. And our top 3 with the highest counts are:

1. Anderson Da Campo
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2. Yashar Nahar
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3. Alex Schmitt
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the winners can contact our team to receive their free license.
All other participants will receive 20% discount on a TMS license of their choice. They can contact our team at info@tmssoftware.com with a reference to their post.

Fun facts & nostalgia

• An interesting conversation between the oldest and the youngest TMS member.
• A bit of history in the TMS office!
  
  

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Company history

• Started in 1996 with Delphi and in 2001 as a freelancer.
• Kassebaum is located in Bünde / Germany.
• Kassebaum is a family business: Roman is supported by his wife and sons. The older one already studies Maths and Information Technology. The younger one currently builds web sites.

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Rapid-fire with Roman...

• Your main work?
  I'm converting components from older Delphi versions to the recent ones. People know me for the Turbo Pack components.
  
  
• An example of your work?
  An example of my work is the IDE integration of TMS Web Core.
  
  
• Which TMS components do you mainly use?
  I'm using TMS BIZ (XData, Sparkle, Aurelius and BCL), TMS Web Core, TMS IntraWeb and TMS PassKit.
  
  
• Which operating systems do you use?
  I'm using the platforms Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.

TMS Partnership:

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On November 14th, 2019, in Düsseldorf, Germany, another day of TMS Training Days 2019 took place - the biggest TMS Software event so far. During the TMS Training Days, TMS team members from nine different countries have spoken about Delphi development, TMS libraries and components, in sessions that targeted from the beginner developer to the advance one.

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Specifically on November 14th, TMS Business Masterclass took place. Attendants got in-depth training day on TMS Business tools, with Wagner Landgraf, architect of TMS Business Tools.

This training course is the replay of the full TMS Business Masterclass day. If you missed the event for any reason, here is now the opportunity to watch it!

You will feel like attending the event: the content includes the replay of the slides and as well the video recording of the instructor. Interaction with the audience is also included: content also includes questions from attendants and most of the discussion and debates that happened in the event, including subtitles for parts of the audio that cannot be cleared heard.

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Who is this course for?

What are the sessions content?

• Session 1: The TMS Business World
  A journey into the world of TMS Business bundle. We will learn about the solutions provided by TMS Business: the components included, the libraries, the use cases, all in the historical context and the motivations behind it. Products covered: TMS Scripter, TMS Diagram Studio, TMS Workflow Studio, TMS Data Modeler, TMS Aurelius, TMS Sparkle, TMS RemoteDB, TMS XData, TMS Echo, TMS Logging.
  *BIZ level: Beginner
• Session 2: The Joy of Databases
  A talk about new ways to deal with databases. What is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) framework, and are the most recent news and features about it. What you can use to help you out in modeling your databases, easily use existing databases with the new paradigm, and advanced techniques on ORM and database modeling. Products covered: TMS Aurelius, TMS Data Modeler
  *BIZ level: Intermediate
• Session 3: Your App Everywhere: REST API
  Multitier, cloud, REST, HTTP, SSL: What, Why, When, and mainly, How? Learn what a REST API server means, why you will benefit from moving your app to the cloud, and learn how to do it in a very RAD way. The latest features will be covered, even for the experienced users. Products covered: TMS XData, TMS Sparkle
  *BIZ level: Intermediate
• Session 4: The Unsung Heroes
  A deeper look into three awesome TMS Business libraries that bring you solutions for problems you never thought you had. User-customized application, modifying business rules at runtime, offline data synchronization, and moving your app to the cloud in a couple of days. Products covered: TMS Scripter, TMS Echo, TMS RemoteDB
  *BIZ level: Beginner
• Session 5: Getting serious in the Cloud
  Advanced techniques and concepts when building REST API servers: Security, background processing and deep analysis of real-world source code. Products covered: TMS XData, TMS Sparkle
  *BIZ level: Advanced
• Session 6: All Together Now
  A very interactive session where all the current ideas from the TMS team for the future of TMS Business will be presented. We will discuss the existing roadmap, brainstorming about all the possibilities, have all questions answered and summarize the whole day.

What is the language spoken in the course?

Full source code for examples

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Working hard!

• Windows: Edge Chromium
• macOS/iOS: WKWebView
• Android: WebView

That's not all!

  TTMSFNCObjectHelper = class helper for TObject
    function ToJSON(AExcludedProperties: TTMSFNCObjectExcludePropertyListArray): string; overload;
    function ToJSON: string; overload;
    procedure FromJSON(const Value: string);
    property JSON: string read ToJSON write FromJSON;
    procedure Log;
    {$IFNDEF WEBLIB}
    procedure SaveToJSONFile(const AFileName: string);
    procedure LoadFromJSONFile(const AFileName: string);
    {$ENDIF}
    procedure SaveToJSONStream(const AStream: TStream);
    procedure LoadFromJSONStream(const AStream: TStream);
  end;

  TTestClass = class(TPersistent)
  private
    FB: string;
    FC: Double;
    FA: Boolean;
  published
    property A: Boolean read FA;
    property B: string read FB write FB;
    property C: Double read FC write FC;
  end;

var
  t: TTestClass;
begin
  t := TTestClass.Create;
  t.FA := True;
  t.FB := 'Hello World!';
  t.FC := 123.456;

  t.JSON.Log;
end;

Debug Output: {"$type":"TTestClass","A":true,"B":"Hello World!","C":123.456} Process Project1.exe (6968)

A little more patience

What has been going on lately?

What does it mean for my application?

Taking a headstart!

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