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5-Minute-Snack: Default local folders in TMS Miletus (e.g. user directory)

TMS Miletus is a framework that allows you to create desktop applications based on TMS WEB Core. You can hit two birds with one stone by delivering a Web application and a desktop application (soon for multiple platforms) at the same time!

This sounds easier than it actually is because Web applications do not have access to your local file system or any other hardware.

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5-Minute-Snack: Determine all your display dimensions with resolution in Delphi

Back in the day, you did not need to know much about the display that your application has been started on except its dimensions. Forms needed to be resized so they would fit the display nicely. Hardly anybody had multiple displays and resolutions of 4000 pixels were unthinkable. Today, the requirement for applications have changed and multi-display environments with 4K displays have become very common.

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Save or return database query results as JSON

JSON has become the common format to store structured information in text files. Further, web services tend to return JSON these days. XML seems to have lost the battle as it generates too much meta-information nobody needs. In addition, developers hardly need the validation of XML documents which is not possible to implement using JSON.

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5-Minute-Snack: Get Base64 encoding for images in TMS Web Core

Not so long ago, I posted about how to convert an image into a Base64 string. Today, I will show you that using TMS Web Core, this is even easier.

If we look into the source code of TMS Web Core, we find that the custom image control adds a public property called Base64Image of type string.

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