Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services allows you to deliver native Excel reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Unlike the native renderer for Excel based reports, Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services provides an extended feature set and allows RDL reports to be converted to: Excel 97-2003 binary XLS format, SpreadsheetML or the Excel 2007 XLSX format. Take the time to download the free evaluation version today to see how Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services can work for you.

We have released Aspose.BarCode for .NET version 2.6.0.0. In this release we have added support for Patch code and MacroPDF417 recognition. We have also performed optimized build on .NET framework 3.5. For detailed information, you are requested to view the official release page and accompanying blog post. The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET can be downloaded from here.

The latest version 3.9.0.0 of Aspose.Network for .NET has been released. In this release, we have added support for S/MIME protocol. Now, you can add a digital signature to your email message. The performance of Outlook message file reader has been optimized as well as some improvements have been made to the MIME parser. This release also contains numerous bug fixes and improvements. For more information, please visit the official release page and the accompanying blog post. The latest version of Aspose.Network for .NET can be downloaded from here.

We have just released the first Beta version of Aspose.Recognition for .NET. If you need to convert PDF files to DOC, OOXML, ODT, RTF or HTML in your application, then you should try Aspose.Recognition. It is a simple to use .NET class library that is available for any .NET version and supports both x86 and x64 modes. Aspose.Recognition employs our market leading document processing library Aspose.Words for producing all document formats. For more information, you are requested to view the official release page and the accompanying blog post. The latest version of Aspose.Recognition for .NET can be downloaded from here

A latest version of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is just released that now provides the support of both Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. With this release, Aspose has become the first barcode component vendor that supports MS SQL Server 2008 features. For detailed information, you are requested to view the official release page and accompanying blog post. The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services can be downloaded from here.

In this month’s newsletter, we include information about migrating your VSTO code to Aspose.Cells for adding new worksheets to an existing excel file, filling data into the cells of each worksheet, activating a sheet in the workbook and save as the excel file. You can find the detailed information with complete code here.

IIn this article, we will show you how to parse an Outlook Msg file in your C# application. We will use Aspose.Network for .NET for this purpose. We have developed a complete Outlook Msg file viewer. We provide step by step instructions on how you can achieve the same. The complete source code of the demo application is also provided for your convenience. You can find the complete article here.

The Aspose.AdHoc Query Builder component is an ASP.NET component that can be used for a wide variety of tasks, ranging from Ad Hoc reports to quick and easy search screens. Developers can simply drag and drop the Ad Hoc component on to their web forms, assign a DataTable object as the data source and let the component do the rest. The Ad Hoc component uses a DataTable object as its data source allowing developers to use virtually any back end database. The Ad Hoc component offers a variety of outputs, including: SQL statement, Select statement, Where statement, Order By statement, Filtered Data Objects and many more. Take the time to download the free evaluation version today to see how Aspose.AdHoc can work for you.

Aspose.Words comes with two DLLs; one is targeted for .NET Framework 1.1 and the other for .NET Framework 2.0. The DLL targeted for .NET Framework 2.0 can also be used in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with both x86 and x64 applications targeted for .NET Framework 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5. For detailed information, you are requested to view the relevant post. Aspose.Words has also been tested on and confirmed to have no problems while being used on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64. More details here.

In the latest version 1.1.1.0 of Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services, we have made some changes to the client tool which is used to design reports in MS Excel. We have now used VBA to develop the UI of the client tool and C# to develop its other features. This removes its dependency on Excel PIA and makes installation and deployment easier. The support for sub-report design, manual input report range and composite markers have also been included in this release along with numerous bug fixes. The latest version can be downloaded from here. For more information please visit the official release page and the accompanying blog post.

Aspose.Words for .NET version 5.1.0.0 has been released. This new release brings improvements to DOCX (Office Open XML) import of DrawingML graphics; some images in the DrawingML format are now supported. ODT (OpenDocument) export has also been improved as well as an option to export to a CSS stylesheet (embedded in HTML or separate file) is now available when exporting to HTML. We have also resolved some problems that customers were experiencing on 64bit Windows. In addition to this, numerous other bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated into this release. For detailed information please visit the official release page and the accompanying blog post. The latest version of Aspose.Words for .NET can be downloaded from here.

The latest version 1.1.5.0 of Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services has been released. In this release we have added the capability to export Hyperlink actions. By RDL specifications, hyperlinks can now be added to images and text boxes in a report. For more information please visit the official release page. The latest version of Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services can be downloaded from here.

Aspose.Slides for .NET version 2.8.3.0 has been released. This was soon followed by the release of version 2.8.4.0. The new release now supports cloning of slides inside one presentation for PPTX format. Also supported is the rendering of headers, footers, slide numbers and all types of automatically generated dates, etc. on thumbnail, SVG and PDF. Many internal improvements for reading/writing PPTX and numerous other bug fixes have been incorporated into these releases. For more information please visit the official release pages here and here. The latest version of Aspose.Slides for .NET can be downloaded from here.

The latest version 2.0.0.0 of Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java has been released. In this release the support for digital signature has been added. Users are now able to secure the PDF document with digital certificate. Also added is the support for extracting various comments (annotations) including types of text, highlight, stamp, attachment, etc. as well as the support for CJK font for filling fields and stamping texts. Also included in this release are numerous bug fixes and improvements. Please visit the official release page and the accompanying blog post for more information. You can download the latest version of Aspose.Pdf.Kit for Java from here.

Aspose.Cells for .NET version 4.4.3.0 has been released. This was preceded by the release of version 4.4.2.0 earlier. The new release now supports the DAYS360 function in formula calculation engine, and the 2007 XLSM format. In addition to this, two new methods, Cell.GetStyle and Cell.SetStyle, have been added to optimize memory usage. Also included in this release are numerous bug fixes and improvements. For more information please visit the official release pages here and here, as well as the accompanying blog post. The latest version of Aspose.Cells for .NET can be downloaded from here.

The latest version 1.8.3.0 of Aspose.Slides for Java has been released. The new release includes support for OLE1 native objects and bidirectional writing. Also included is the support for any number of meta characters (which represent slide numbers, header, footers and etc.) in a text frame through TextFrame.getMetaCharacters() method. In addition to this the rendering of headers, footers, slide numbers and all types of automatically generated dates, etc. on thumbnail, SVG and PDF is also supported. Numerous other bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated into this release as well. For more information please visit the official release page. The latest version of Aspose.Slides for Java can be downloaded from here.

This article describes how you can add the ability of converting DOC to PDF (DOC2PDF) to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) using Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf. The article will guide you in creating a small console application in Visual Studio that works as a document converter for SharePoint and invokes the Aspose components to perform the conversion. It is easy to add even more types of document conversions by following the example in this article. You can find the complete article here.