Aurelius objects everywhere - Distributed applications using JSON
TMS Aurelius version 1.7, released a couple of weeks ago, introduced a new feature that was often requested by users: JSON support. You may ask yourself, why is that so important? Can't I "use JSON"...
View Article2012 at TMS, a retrospective
At the end of the year, it is always good to reflect on what the year has brought, to learn from it and to plan for the next year. Product releases in 2012 In January, we released a new product, TMS...
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Cross platform grid with native .XLS/.XLSX/.PDF IO: TMS Grid for FireMonkey...
Last summer we have released our powerful, feature-rich cross platform grid for FireMonkey. Shortly after we have also released a major update for TMS Flexcel. With TMS Flexcel v5.5 there is full...
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TMS Day: Apr 25, 2013
It's a fact, in cooperation with Be-Delphi, organizer of the Be-Delphi Delphi developer events, we will be organizing the first TMS Day on April 25, 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. The TMS Day will bring...
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Celebrating 18 years of Delphi
On February 14, Delphi turns 18 years. To celebrate 18 years of Delphi, we've searched through our archives and brought together quite some items that bring back memories and recall moments of these...
View ArticleCrash Course TMS Aurelius – Getting Started
Even though TMS Aurelius provides extensive documentation, I sometimes receive requests to provide more examples, sample codes and explanations about how to accomplish some daily tasks. Thus, I will...
View ArticleCrash Course TMS Aurelius – AnyDAC or dbExpress?
In the example provided in the previous post, we saved a TCustomer instance in a local SQLite database which was accessed natively by TMS Aurelius. Let’s refactor that code a little bit: procedure...
View ArticleCrash Course TMS Aurelius – Associations (Foreign Keys)
Besides mapping tables to classes and table columns to fields/properties, Aurelius also maps relationships (foreign keys) to object associations. One nice thing about Aurelius is that such associations...
View ArticleCrash Course TMS Aurelius – Blobs
Using blobs in Aurelius is very straightforward and yet very powerful. In summary, all you have to do is declare your field/property as TBlob (declared in unit Aurelius.Types.Blob.pas). This is enough...
View ArticleCrash Course TMS Aurelius – Inheritance and Polymorphism
Inheritance is one of my favorite features in Aurelius. One of benefits of using an ORM is abstracting the SQL and start thinking (almost) purely in OOP. Inheritance and polymorphism are fundamental...
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Visual Data Binding using TAureliusDataset
When dealing with Aurelius and any ORM framework, one common task is to build a graphical user interface to edit/display the data. Delphi users are used to the TDataset component, which not only...
View ArticlePreparation for TMS Day April 25 in full force
Preparation of the TMS Day scheduled for April 25 is in full force now. We’re working hard on every little detail, going from papers for the hand-outs, evaluation forms, training certificates, a gift...
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Feature request voting system on TMS website ... 9 months later
Since July 2012, the website offers feature request voting capabilities for registered TMS customers. New request can be added, requests can be filtered and you can vote on requests from other...
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Chrome-style application setting persistence/synchronisation with DropBox
Google Chrome has the very interesting feature to be able to store its settings via your Google account. This means that when you install Chrome on a different machine and associate it with your Google...
View ArticleTMS Aurelius in your iPhone
We have just released TMS Aurelius 2.1 with XE4 support. This "small" release took a little longer, but with a good reason for that: thanks to the new iOS compiler provided in Delphi XE4, now TMS...
View ArticleFlexCel 6 and Working with files in iOS
Introducing FlexCel 6 As you might have noticed, we've just released FlexCel 6 for Delphi with iOS support (FlexCel 6 for .NET is coming soon now and it will also have iOS support). We've taken our...
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TMS iCL: an introduction
In this article, we'll try to explain what TMS iCL is, what it isn't and why it can matter for your Delphi applications for iOS. What is TMS iCL? TMS iCL is a component library. It stands for iOS...
View ArticleTMS iCL on iOS7
Curious as we are, we wanted to test out our TMS iCL native iOS controls for FireMonkey today on the beta of iOS7 that was released yesterday at WWDC 2013. While there are some glitches with debugging,...
View ArticleBlock Animations with TMS iCL
This week, we had a support question on Block Animations with TMS iCL, or in other words, how to animate for example a TTMSFMXNativeUIView? To be honest, after all the hard work around the TMS iCL...
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An Excel report generated by TMS FlexCel for TMS FlexCel at Xamarin
With Xamarin targettng iOS, Android, Windows Phone mobile devices, they offer an online tool to perform an analysis for .NET assembly compatibiliy & readiness with the Xamarin tools. Having an...
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