We look forward to connect with you at the upcoming conference! TMS evangelist Holger Flick and many other experts will share their knowledge with the audience! Take your Desktop UI/UX to new levels as you learn from industry leaders alongside over 1000 developers like you! The Theory and Practice of Amazing Desktop Application UI & UX Is a FREE online event, organized by Embarcadero technologies, on Sept 16th & 17th, 2020. The full schedule can be found on the following page https://summit.desktopfirst.com/schedule/ Speakers https://summit.desktopfirst.com/speakers/ The speakers will be sharing their experiences, strategies, and knowledge. You can choose between multiple speakers and categories. TMS evangelist Holger Flick “Building consistent UI suitable for high DPI with vector images and styles” Since 1996, Dr. Holger Flick has been using Delphi as his primary development platform and has been an active member of the community. He studied computer science at Dortmund University and later wrote his dissertation at the Ruhr University in Bochum in the field of telemedicine. For his passion for and knowledge of Delphi he was awarded the “Delphi MVP” moniker in 2016. In 2019, Holger moved to the United States of America (USA) and established his new company FlixEngineering LLC. The company focuses on consulting, training and software development using object-oriented programming languages like Delphi, C#, Swift, and Objective-C. Holger is part of the TMS Software family providing his expertise as Evangelist and QA Engineer. Holger Flick has written multiple book on TMS software: Participants can choose from multiple categories depending on their interest: https://summit.desktopfirst.com/topics/ Book your tickets today and reserve your seat: book now
The first version of TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code v1.0 has been released! Visual Studio Code is the 3rd IDE that can host the TMS WEB Core framework for web client application development after the earlier released versions for Delphi and Lazarus. TMS WEB Core offers Object Pascal software developers visual RAD component-based web client development with the strongly typed and object-oriented Pascal language. For developers who are not yet used to Visual Studio Code, this is a completely new world. That’s why here is a starting guide, with all the information you need to get started! Get started with TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code TMS videos Videos: José Leon Serna (chief architect) YouTube channel Blog articles Books Online courses With version 1.0 the first step has been taken and further developments are being made to expand this into a very productive and rich platform. TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code is now available at our special launch price starting from 295EUR for a single developer license! And you can also download and explore this new ground-breaking product using the trial version! Follow us on social media and don’t miss our blogs!
This year in February, we launched TMS VCL UI Pack Academic. In April, we launched TMS FNC UI Pack Academic. And now in September, we launch TMS WEB Core Academic! TMS Academic program With TMS VCL UI Pack Academic, we want to inspire and motivate students and teachers to learn about the power of the Delphi VCL framework and help users to build even more powerful, visually pleasing, and feature rich Windows desktop applications. With TMS FNC UI Pack Academic, we want to do the same for FMX cross platform applications. Empower students and teachers to discover the fascinating world of cross platform development with Delphi and the FireMonkey framework. TMS FNC UI Pack delivers over 70 extra sophisticated cross platform/cross framework visual controls to enrich native applications created with Delphi for Windows, iOS, macOS and Android. And now, with the third step, we want to motivate students and teachers to discover that Delphi can also be an extremely productive tool for web client application development. TMS WEB Core Academic TMS WEB Core , offers RAD component based visual development of web applications driven by the strongly typed and object-oriented Object Pascal language from the familiar and beloved Delphi IDE. It is clear that with the first three academic editions of our popular products, we hope students will enjoy picking up Delphi and experience how powerful it is and how it makes software development fun at the same time. With that, we want to offer our contribution to nurture the next generation of enthusiast and passionate Delphi developers. As all our other academic releases, it is designed for use with the latest and greatest Delphi version, now v10.4.x Sydney. In order to obtain the academic licensed version of TMS WEB Core, students and teachers need to provide an academic email address and their school or university information. In addition to the fully functional academic version of TMS WEB Core, there is plenty of information to learn about TMS WEB Core and to get started. Getting started Manual: TMS WEB Core Developers Guide Demos: TMS WEB Core demos Videos: TMS WEB Core videos Books: TMS WEB Core: Web Application Development with Delphi Training class: courses.landgraf.dev Next level: And for those students who want to rise to the next level, there is the TMS WEB Core partner program! Develop your own components or Object Pascal interfaces to existing JavaScript libraries and publish these via the TMS WEB Core partner program. Contributing partners will get the regular TMS WEB Core version with a license that permits to use it with Delphi IDEs XE7 to 10.4 including Lazarus on Windows, macOS, and Linux but also with our brand new TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code that can be used also from all three major desktop operating systems. It speaks for itself that we are enthusiastic to see students and teachers “go web” and we are more than curious to see what exciting, new, and innovative solutions will surface. With all that, you will move your career forward, move Delphi forward, and move TMS WEB Core forward! Request the academic license now! Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect. Request your academic license here: https://www.tmssoftware.com/academic
I have been a Delphi developer since 1996. During this journey, I have learned new skills and acquired new tools to keep up with the demands of the the software market. In the early 2000s, I learned about AJAX, web services, and basic web design. However, my studies did not require extensive software development for the World Wide Web, and I was happy to go back to developing user interfaces with Delphi in the VCL. Times have changed significantly since then, and I have to be honest that right now I am still learning about web design for modern web development each day. It has become a major part of my daily routine to learn one new aspect of web development each day. I consider web development a mandatory tool in every software developer’s tool belt. Basic web design skills go just along with it. If you struggle with HTML and CSS just as much as I, look no further. I might just have the video tutorial you need. The best thing about it: It’s free. It will start right at the beginning. From the perspective of a Delphi developer, you will learn step-by-step how to build my application that I built to make ordering my books easier. As you can see, you can select the store and book title you want to order and the application will navigate to the page for you where you can order the book. Very simple. Or really? Three months ago, the design of the page would have been an impossible thing to do. You will learn about: Separating application development with TMS WEB Core and web design Bootstrap FontAwesome Using (free) plugins in Visual Studio Code for web design Emmets and code completion for web design with Visual Studio Code WYSIWYG of your web design in the web browser Link you web design to your application controls If you have a TMS WEB Core license and use RAD Studio, this tutorial will get you started how to develop web applications with external web design. For the external web design, we will use Visual Studio Code. If you like this tutorial and the hands-on approach, you will find more examples of this type in the book series. You can use the form above to learn more about each book title on Amazon. Holger Flick
Create documentation is boring. At least that’s my opinion, and most developers I know also don’t like to write it. But that’s something we need to do, of course. Thus, the easiest it gets to document things, the better. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash With TMS XData, you create your REST API server using Delphi very easily, but you also get it documented almost automatically using the automatic Swagger generation feature. Since all endpoints are strong typed in server, all it takes is just to enable a single property and have your endpoints listed and testable. This feature has been available for years already. But now XData takes it to another level. A good (if not the best) way to document your source code is to use XML Documentation Comments. In the interfaces and methods that build your service contract, you can simply add specific XML tags and content, like this: /// /// Retrieves the sine (sin) of an angle /// /// /// Returns the Sine (Sin) value of an angle radians value. /// The value returned will be between -1 and 1. /// If the angle is zero, the returned value will be zero. /// /// /// The angle in radians. /// function Sin(Angle: Double): Double; And Delphi IDE will automatically use it for Help Insight , showing you information about the method on-the-fly. For example, if some developer is trying to use the Sin method of your API, information will be conveniently displayed: The good news is that, with XData, you can use such XML comments in the Swagger document and Swagger-UI that are generated automatically by XData, improving even more your REST API documentation. Since the API endpoints are generated directly from the interfaced and methods, XData knows exactly the meaning of each documentation and can map it accordingly to Swagger. By asking Delphi to generate the XML documentation files, and using a single line of code like this: uses {…}, XData.Aurelius.ModelBuilder; … TXDataModelBuilder.LoadXmlDoc(XDataServer.Model); XData will reuse the documentation and include it in Swagger: Using different documentation for Help Insight and Swagger Reusing the same XML comments is nice as you don’t repeat yourself. Document your code just once, and the same documentation is used for documenting your Delphi interfaces (Delphi developments) and your REST API (API consumer development). But, if for some reason you want to use different documentation content for Delphi developers and for REST API users, that’s also possible. For example, suppose the following documentation: Note that tags summary and param are the regular XML documentation tags. They will be used for Help Insight: And swagger tags with no name attribute (A), or name param-A (B), param-B (C) and remarks (D) will be used exclusively for Swagger documentation: Customizing tags You can also customize the tags in Swagger. Endpoints are grouped together inside a tag, which can have a name and description. By default, the name of the tag will be path segment of the interface service. But you can change it using either swagger tag using tag-name attribute. The description of the tag by default is empty, but you can define it using the regular summary tag, or optionally using the swagger tag with tag-description attribute. Consider the following documentation for both IArithmenticService and ITrigonometryService : The above tags will generate the […]
We already have an extensive set of powerful and feature-rich UI controls in our TMS FNC UI Pack. But there is always room for some additional tools to help you with your cross framework and cross platform work. In this new release of our TMS FNC UI Pack we’ve added 5 new components which were requested by you, our community of great developers who see the enormous advantages of components that can be used on VCL, TMS Web Core, FMX and Lazarus with just one code base. TMS FNC Controls can be simultaneously used on these frameworks: TMS FNC Controls can be simultaneously used on these operating systems/browsers: TMS FNC Controls can be simultaneously used on these IDE’s: New to the TMS FNC UI family TTMSFNCRichEditorHorizontalRuler TTMSFNCRichEditor has a ruler control that can be connected to it. This control has the intuitive handling that you are familiar with from the advanced text editors. With this ruler you can easily control the margins of your page and the indentation of your text. And you have the ability to add tabs, which sets the position of your text when the next tab is pressed. This component is a great advantage to get your text document to a higher level as it helps you with the layout of your text. TTMSFNCSplitter Our TTMSFNCSplitter has the same behavior as other splitters, but as this is a FNC control, you can use the same component on all the different platforms. No more need to set framework specific properties. Next to this timesaving feature, we have made the appearance customizable to your preferences, so the control can blend in with your application. TTMSFNCProgressBar One of the most requested components is the TTMSFNCProgressBar, this provides users with visual feedback about the progress of a procedure within an application. With more than 25 properties to set the appearance and layout of the component, you have a huge range of possibilities to customize your TTMSFNCProgressBar. And by changing the minimum and maximum value, you can easily invert the direction of the progress. TTMSFNCRating While we were creating the TTMSFNCProgressBar, we noticed that it might be nice to have a similar control with interaction. Therefor we created TTMSFNCRating. With the use of images (SVGs as well) you can set a scale to give a rating. If you clear the images, the control will look like a TTMSFNCProgressBar but with the ability to interact with it. This can be done by clicking on the value that you want, sliding from the end of the progress to where you want or via your keyboard with the arrow keys. TTMSFNCWaitingIndicator An indicator for illustrating an indefinite waiting time for a task that is in progress. You can choose if you want show a progress or if you want circles, squares or images moving around a center bitmap or if you want them to change size. In case you want to show that a form or a panel is currently not available, you can center the waiting indicator over the parent and use an overlay to emphasize this. If you want to see some other examples or the behavior of the FNC splitter and rating control, you can have a look at the following video:
TX509Certificate is a component of TMS Cryptography Pack to use X509 certificates. With it, we can sign certificate signing request (CSR) or use it in XAdES, CAdES or PAdES to sign or verify documents. We can generate self-signed certificates, import them from PEM file, from PEM string, from PFX file. In this post, I will explain how to import certificate from Windows Certificate Store. To do that, we have to use the crypt32 DLL and CertOpenSystemStore and CertFindCertificateInStore. CertOpenSystemStore function CertOpenSystemStore(hProv: HCRYPTPROV; szSubsystemProtocol: LPCTSTR) : hCertStore; This function is used to open the certificate store. The microsoft documentation is here. The first parameter hProv is not used and should be set to NULL. The second parameter is a string that names a system store. Most common options are: You can use CertEnumSystemStore function to list the names of existing system stores. The function returns an handle to the store. CertFindCertificateInStore function CertFindCertificateInStore(hCertStore: hCertStore; dwCertEncodingType, dwFindFlags, dwFindType: DWORD; pvFindPara: Pointer; pPrevCertContext: PCCERT_CONTEXT): PCCERT_CONTEXT; The function finds a certificate in a given store. The Microsoft documentation is here. The first parameter is the handle of the store, returned by CertOpenSystemStore. The second parameter is the encoding type of the cert. The options are: X509_ASN_ENCODING PKCS_7_ASN_ENCODING We will use only X509_ASN_ENCODING because it is the certificate encoding type. The third parameter is used with some dwFindType values to modify the search criteria. For most dwFindType values, dwFindFlags is not used and should be set to zero. The fourth parameter specifies the type of search being made. For the complete list of options, you can read the documentation. We will use in this example the CERT_FIND_SUBJECT_NAME option, to search from subject name of the certificate. The fifth parameter contains the content of the search. In your example, it will contain the subject name of the certificate we want. The sixth parameter is a pointer to the last CERT_CONTEXT structure returned by this function. This parameter must be NULL on the first call of the function. To find successive certificates meeting the search criteria, set pPrevCertContext to the pointer returned by the previous call to the function. If the function succeeds, the function returns a pointer to a read-only CERT_CONTEXT structure. A CERT_CONTEXT structure is: _CERT_CONTEXT = record dwCertEncodingType: DWORD; pbCertEncoded: LPBYTE; cbCertEncoded: DWORD; pCertInfo: PCERT_INFO; hCertStore: hCertStore; end; dwCertEncodingType is the encoding type of the certificate, pbCertEncoded is the content of the certificate, cbCertEncoded is the length of the certificate, pCertInfo is the certificate information and hCertStore is the store. Code The code to import a TX509Certificate from the Windows Certificate Store is the following: unit Unit1; interface uses Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics, Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, CryptBase, X509Obj, MiscObj; const X509_ASN_ENCODING = $00000001; CERT_FIND_SUBJECT_STR = 8 shl 16 or 7; // values taken from System.Net.HttpClient.Win type HCRYPTPROV = ULONG_PTR; _CERT_CONTEXT = record dwCertEncodingType: DWORD; pbCertEncoded: LPBYTE; cbCertEncoded: DWORD; pCertInfo: PCERT_INFO; hCertStore: hCertStore; end; PCERT_CONTEXT = ^_CERT_CONTEXT; PCCERT_CONTECT = PCERT_CONTEXT; function ExtractCertWindowsStore(subjectName: string): TX509Certificate; function CertOpenSystemStore(hProv: HCRYPTPROV; szSubsystemProtocol: LPCTSTR) : hCertStore; stdcall; external ‘crypt32.dll’ name ‘CertOpenSystemStoreW’; function CertFindCertificateInStore(hCertStore: hCertStore; dwCertEncodingType, dwFindFlags, dwFindType: DWORD; pvFindPara: Pointer; pPrevCertContext: PCCERT_CONTEXT): PCCERT_CONTEXT; stdcall; external ‘crypt32.dll’ name ‘CertFindCertificateInStore’; implementation {$R *.dfm} function ExtractCertWindowsStore(subjectName: string): TX509Certificate; var Store: hCertStore; Cert: PCCERT_CONTEXT; s: string; i: integer; Conv: TConvert; X509Cert: TX509Certificate; begin Cert := nil; Store := CertOpenSystemStore(0, PChar(‘MY’)); if […]
It’s a special year for our team as we celebrate the company’s 20th birthday this month. We’ve come a long way over the years, so we wanted to celebrate this together with YOU! Officially on October 17, 2000 the company tmssoftware.com bvba was registered in Belgium. tmssoftware.com bvba ws founded by Bruno Fierens to prepare his operations for the next steps and next level. Since the very beginning of Delphi in 1995, Bruno Fierens was operating as self-employed consultant developing and offering VCL components on the market. On October 17, we plan to look back a bit more in detail on the history of the company but from today we start the 20 days action to celebrate our 20 year anniversary! 20% longer updates and support with licenses in the next 20 days Yes, you hear that correct. For every license purchased (new license, upgrade, renewal) you receive 20% EXTRA time of free updates and free support coming with the product. So, products that come with free 1 year of updates and support, you now receive 20% more, or 438 days instead of 365 days (1 year). This action runs for 20 days, from October 8 to October 28. It is offered to anyone, also loyal existing customers can purchase a renewal and will get an extra 20% renewal time. Also if you have licenses that are not yet expired, you can now already purchase a renewal and these 438 days will be added to your remaining free update & support period. Your opportunity to get one of a limited edition run of 20 pieces of the book “Delphi Hands-on with TMS FNC Maps” For our 20th anniversary we are producing a hyper limited run of 20 pieces only of a full color version of the “Delphi Hands-on with TMS FNC Maps” book. This book will have a special preface with a retrospective of the company written by Bruno Fierens and will be hand signed by the Belgian team. To get a chance to win one of these limited edition books, share an anecdote about the TMS team, the TMS products, TMS events or share a screenshot of your product, your favorite blog article… in the comments section under this blog or on our social media and win the brand new and limited edition TMS FNC Maps hands-on book in color! Twitter: Tag @TMSsoftwareNews & use following hashtags: #tmssoftware , #delphi and #embarcadero Facebook: Tag @tmssoftware & use following hashtags: #tmssoftware , #delphi and #embarcadero YouTube: Tag @tmssoftwareTV & use following hashtags: #tmssoftware , #delphi and #embarcadero Our team will choose from the most extraordinary or special anecdotes/comments found on this blog comment section or on our social media channels and give send the limited edition of the book to your home. Celebrate TMS components with us this October. We are proud of our big TMS family all around the world. Thank you for the many years of trust. Looking forward to the next 20 years!
As you may already know, this October we are celebrating our company’s 20th birthday! And of course we want you to celebrate with us. In addition to the current ongoing action of winning a limited edition “TMS FNC Maps hands-on” book, we have another special promotion for you! Get 30% discount on online courses at landgraf.dev This promotion runs until November 15, 2020. Available courses TMS Business Masterclass: Delphi developers looking to learn more about ORM, REST/JSON development, multi-tier applications and also some background about TMS Business tools, with code examples.Introduction to TMS WEB Core: Developers looking to build WEB applications using Delphi, following modern Single-Page-Application architecture. What is the language spoken in the course? In all videos of this training course you have the options to turn on subtitles, and they were not auto-translated. All subtitles were written manually to make sense and with technical terms spelled correctly. Full source code for examples Each lecture of this course that uses a sample project has an associated downloadable file which includes the full source code of the example. Your Instructor Wagner is founder of landgraf.dev, a place for Delphi developers to find information and courses about Delphi. Even though being a Master of Science in Engineering, he’s a developer at heart. Having worked with Delphi since its very first version in 1995, and being partner of TMS Software (a renowned company that provides solutions for Delphi), Wagner is the main developer behind popular Delphi frameworks like TMS Aurelius, TMS XData and TMS Scripter, among others. Take advantage of this special discount and be one of the first to secure your place in these online course with Wagner Landgraf at landgraf.dev.
Company foundation On October 17 in the year 2000, the company “tmssoftware.com bvba” was officially founded in Belgium. So, this year 2020, we celebrate on October 17 the 20-year anniversary of the company. After I started developing VCL components in 1995 with the release of Borland Delphi 1, I did this for the first 5 years as first part-time self-employed consultant and later full-time self-employed under the umbrella of “TMS software”. By the year 2000, it became clear that the next step in this process of growth was to found a company, have a separate office, and prepare to hire the first employee. Official declaration of the creation of the company in the Belgian register First steps As Delphi was born and brought Pascal developers RAD component-based development, I quickly realized there was a huge potential in creating components myself to enable me to reuse interesting code among various consulting projects I was doing for companies. I realized that when these components would be of interest to myself, these could probably also have value for other Delphi developers. Fortunately, at that time, there were two websites (Delphi Super Pages and Torry.net) that allowed Delphi developers to share created components with other developers. I was curious to try this out and the very first component released on Torry and Delphi Super Pages was TANIIcon. This was a functionality I had not seen before from other Delphi developers and the component showed on screen animated cursors. I decided to create this component especially because I had not seen it done before and also because it introduced the challenge to create a component with custom property streaming as well as the creation of a custom property editor to pick and preview the animated cursor at design-time. It was a great experience to learn about the internals of the VCL framework. Meanwhile, for my own internal use in consulting projects, I had been working on a component descending from TStringGrid to add loads and loads of features I was needing over and over again in projects. This became TAdvStringGrid and was the first big component I released in a Shareware version. It was released on Delphi Super Pages and Torry and by 1996, I realized we needed a website. In Belgium, these were the early days of the Internet and it was through the ISP that we could get a limited free space for basic HTML pages. It could be found at http://users.skynet.be/tmssoftware. But of course, it no longer exists now. It was only from 1998 that the domain tmssoftware.com was purchased and all pages were moved to a shared hosted server for this domain. Between 1996 and 1998, it was still non-trivial to handle online payment transactions. It was common for developers to send a payment by cheque to purchase shareware. Fortunately, in 1998, Element5 AG in Germany offered its ShareIt service providing a platform for software developers to handle online payments and I almost immediately jumped on it. Fast-forward to the year 2000, the amount of work involved with developing, marketing, selling, supporting VCL components had grown into a more than full-time job. So, it was time to structure this into the company “tmssoftware.com bvba” and move to newer and bigger office spaces. And it is this 20-year anniversary we celebrate today. […]
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