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TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code 1.9.7.0 released

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

We're happy to announce that with the new release of TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code, we stepped up the level of web client application development with Object Pascal. The key goals of this new release 1.9.7.0 are:

Introduce visual form inheritance
Framework synchronization with TMS WEB Core for Delphi
Increased robustness, compatibility and stability
Improved coding experience thanks to a new OmniPascal update

Visual form inheritance

Now you can take advantage of the visual form inheritance feature also from the TMS WEB Core Visual Studio Code IDE. This means you can design a form and created an inherited form and use base form class and inherited form live visually in the IDE. Any changes you apply to the base class will be immediately visible in the descending form class and modifications to the descending class are nicely managed and persisted. Using visual form inheritance should significantly increase your productivity when you deal with web application form logic with repeating patterns. See for yourself how this visual form inheritance feature is used in the IDE:

Framework synchronization with TMS WEB Core for Delphi

In the new release, all latest features & improvements of the TMS WEB Core framework are adopted in TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code. This includes:

New : geMemo editor type added in TWebStringGrid
New : WordWrap property added in TWebStringGrid
New : TWebResponsiveGrid.OnGetItemTemplate event added
New : Support for custom images added in TWebDBNavigator
New : SelectCell() added in TWebTableControl
New : ScrollRowInView() added in TWebTableControl
New : MultiSelect option added to TWebResponsiveGrid
New : Miletus use of USB UART on Raspberry Pi
New : Miletus extensibility through libraries
New : Hyperlinks clickable with Ctrl key in TWebRichEditToolbar
New : Hyperlink button added in TWebRichEditToolbar
New : FindCellFindNext functions added in TWebTableControl
New : Filtering capability added in TWebTableControl TWebDBTableControl

+ various smaller improvements and fixes.

Given that the TMS WEB Core framework under TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code is identical to TMS WEB Core for Delphi, this means you can perfectly continue development projects handled by other team members in Delphi also from Visual Studio Code and vice versa.

Increased robustness, compatibility and stability.

While TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code is younger than the version for Delphi, it comes with the additional challenge that it has a web technology based form designer. This means that it uses a full WYSIWYG form designer that also uses HTML elements or complete HTML templates live on the form designer. You can understand this brings increased complexities to manage in the designer and we focused on improving the experience at design-time in this new release. Improvements were done to the framework to handle this design-time situation better and we significantly extended the number of tests run from within the IDE itself to guarantee stability & compatibility. This new release should move this a significant step forward.

Improved coding experience thanks to a new OmniPascal update

Not really a part of this new TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code 1.9.7.0 release, but the new OmniPascal version will still improve your coding experience while developing in TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code. We worked together with the author of OmniPascal. This Visual Studio Code plugin provides code completion & highlighting in the IDE and extensions were added to work better with JavaScript ASM blocks in code as well as async await/promise constructs in the code. When you use TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code, you should automatically also get this newest version of OmniPascal installed along.

Now is a great time to discover TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code!

Develop web client applications directly from your favorite operating system Windows, macOS or Linux and using a RAD component based development approach. Grab a fully functional trial version of TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code and discover an entire new world of software development possibilities!

Bruno Fierens