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Aspose.Cells for Java Vs Open Source Competitors

Amjad Sahi — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:43:00 GMT

In this article, we try to examine feature comparison between Aspose.Cells for Java, JExcelAPI and POI-HSSF. Today we find different spreadsheet components that really promise to have feature-rich API for spreadsheet management. The article observes the feature analysis of Aspose.Cells for Java with its open source competitors. We provide summary of valuable features of all three components. Moreover, we state some known limitations and deficiencies of the components if they have. We also present a comparison table for an overview after putting Aspose.Cells for Java, JExcelAPI and POI-HSSF side by side.

Please check the complete article: http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.cells-for-.net-and-java/aspose-cells-for-java-vs-open-source-competitors.html

How to get content of a node or bookmark as HTML, WordML, RTF?

romank — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:47:00 GMT

How to get content of a node or bookmark as HTML, WordML, RTF?

Many customers of Aspose.Words ask this question, but so far there was no simple one-line-of-code way of doing that in Aspose.Words.

The general solution we recommended so far was to "extract" the document fragment you are interested in into a separate Document object and then use Document.Save to save it in the desired format. Extracting the fragment might be done either by deleting all content from the document except the fragment you are interested in, or by copying the fragment into an empty Document instance. Because the Document is a tree of nodes, extracting a fragment is not always straightforward and requires a bit of coding with traversing nodes.

We would like to change that and make it easy for you. The reason we have not yet done this is "complex consequences" that are not immediately apparent to the users who ask for this feature, but are very apparent to us when we try to think of implementing this feature.

This post is to let you, the user who asks for this feature see the "consequences" of this feature and seek your feedback. Once we decide how to proceed, we will quickly implement extracting HTML, WordML, RTF and any other format from nodes, bookmarks and any other document fragments.

Where Should the Images Go?

You want to obtain contents of a node or bookmark as an HTML string. All you want to do is:

string htmlString = doc.Range.Bookmarks["MyBookmark"].ToHtml();

It is often forgotten that the fragment could contain images. When a complete document is saved to HTML, the images are written as separate files and the output HTML file references them.

However, what to do with images when extracting only a fragment of a document as HTML? Should we just ignore the images in this case?

What's an RTF Fragment?

It is easy to say "I want RTF of that paragraph", but the problem is that any RTF fragment (or WordML or OOXML for that matter) is only valid within the context of a particular document.

There are several document-wide structures that every fragment will often refer to. For example, an RTF fragment will use \f0 etc keywords to refer to entries in the font table. That is if you don't carry an RTF font table along with that RTF paragraph then the "references" to fonts will be dangling and you will never find out what font is used by text of the RTF fragment.

This situation is not limited to fonts and RTF, it is much more widespread. Other document-wide structures that are often referenced are styles and list (numbering) and this affects not only RTF, but WordML and OOXML.

In WordML there is a thing called "context free chunk" that could be used to solve the problem. A context free chunk is basically a "mini document" that includes all the document-wide-structures that are referenced by that particular document fragment. Brian Jones gives a bit of info about context free chunks here http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/07/20/441167.aspx

What do you think if we make Node.ToWordML() to return XML in the context free chunk format? I am not so sure about RTF and OOXML though. For RTF we will probably have to return a complete "mini document". For OOXML... no ideas so far.

Jagged Fragments

A bookmark in a Word document can start in a paragraph outside of a table, but end inside a table. The document is a tree of nodes and the situation looks something like this:

If you want to get content of MyBookmark as HTML or WordML you are looking at several "jagged" nodes. That is start of table, row and cell elements are inside the bookmark, but they end outside of it. How do you want that exported?

A possible solution is to "snap" up or down until the jagged fragment is closed. It could be possible to snap so the whole table is included in the bookmark or excluded. What do you think?

Aspose.BarCode for .NET v2.7 with Australia Post Barcode Generation

iret — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:58:00 GMT

We have released Aspose.BarCode for .NET v2.7.0.0. The Austrial Post BarCode generation is supported in this release. The recogintion of Austrial Post BarCode will also support later

Now we support barcode generation and recognition up to 29 different barcode types!

Download links:

http://www.aspose.com/community/files/53/visual-components/aspose.barcode/entry134154.aspx

Aspose.Editor 3.0.0 Released!

dmitryb — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:21:00 GMT

This is a major release which includes several new features.

A detailed description is here: http://www.aspose.com/documentation/visual-components/aspose.editor-for-.net/whats-new-in-version-3-0.html

New Features:

- Tables. Many features are supported, including automatic width calculation and nested tables. There is new table properties dialog. User can insert new table, change its structure and properties.

- Shading and borders. Now shading and borders are rendered. There is a new dialog for changing shading and borders.

- Paragraph rules, e.g. Widow/Orphan control. Paragraph format dialog was updated.

- All section break types, e.g. Even Page, and Column Balancing.

- Plug-in modules. Now client editor control can be customized by loading plug-in modules, there is no need to create additional control on the page for this purpose.

- Recovery. If control throws application may attempt to recover the document.

- Full support for DOCX/DOCM. Documents can now be opened and saved.

- New public methods which use base64 client document stream encoding. This feature simplifies implementing custom send/receive channels in java script on a web page. This is useful if session cookies cannot be passed to the editor in conjunction with forms authentication.

- Server control now supports embedding custom control tag on a page. This feature enables wrapping client control with custom user control which simplifies development when editor needs to provide public COM interfaces.

- New Zoom dialog. Also appearance of the UI was improved. Menus now display shortcuts. Style dialog will show tool tips. All fields which are used to enter width or height values will provide units of measure hint, e.g. "pt".

Fixed since 2.3.0:

- 252 - Exception if document contains zero height font formatting;

- 247 - Drag & drop of hyperlink throws exception;

- All issues on version 2.3.0 reported by customers through support forum;

Here is the screenshot of Windows Forms demo application:

Link to download: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/53/visual-components/aspose.editor/entry133969.aspx

Aspose Customer Newsletter, July 2008

salman.sarfraz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:16:00 GMT

In This Issue

Welcome!
Product Spotlight – Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services
Improvements in Aspose.Words for Java
Aspose.BarCode for .NET now supports Patch code and MacroPDF417 recognition
S/MIME protocol now supported in Aspose.Network for .NET
Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.0 BETA is now available
Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services supports MS Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008
Migration from VSTO to Aspose – Aspose.Cells
Technical Article – Outlook Msg File Viewer
Technical Tip – Convert a Word Document to MHTML and Email

Welcome

Welcome to the July 2008 issue of the Aspose Newsletter! In this month’s newsletter, we will provide some introductory information about our spotlight product: Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services. We will also look at the new and exciting features offered in the recent releases of Aspose.Words, Aspose.BarCode, Aspose.Network and Aspose.Recognition. We will also provide information about migrating your VSTO code to Aspose using Aspose.Cells. You will learn about the latest news from Aspose along with the monthly Tech-Tip, which demonstrates how to convert a Word document to MHTML and Email, and an introduction to our featured technical article which shows you how to create an Outlook Msg file viewer.

Product Spotlight

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.

Improvements in Aspose.Words for Java

The latest version 2.4.2.0 of Aspose.Words for Java has been released. In this release, a fix has been provided for the “Unrecognized format of the form field” exception, which occurred while opening a word document. For more information you can view official release page and the relevant blog post. The latest version of Aspose.Words for Java can be downloaded from here. We have also updated the Aspose.Words documentation. It now includes all code examples in three languages: C#, VB.NET and Java. The Getting Started and Programmer's Guide sections are updated. They contain over 100 code examples. For more information, please visit the relevant blog post.

Aspose.BarCode for .NET now supports Patch code and MacroPDF417 recognition

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.

S/MIME protocol now supported in Aspose.Network for .NET

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.

Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.0 BETA is now available

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

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services supports MS Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008

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.

Migration from VSTO to Aspose – Aspose.Cells


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.

Technical Article – Outlook Msg File Viewer


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.

Technical Tip –– Convert a Word Document to MHTML and Email

Starting with Aspose.Words for .NET version 5.2.0.0, it is now possible to save any document in MHTML (Web Archive) format. It makes it very easy to use Aspose.Words and Aspose.Network together to generate email messages with rich content and send them. This technical tip shows you how to do just that. The complete technical tip can be found here.

Aspose 2008年7月お客様へのメールマガジン

salman.sarfraz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:13:00 GMT

In This Issue

ウェルカム!
製品スポットライト – Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services
Aspose.Words for Java の改良
Aspose.BarCode for .NET で Patch コードと MacroPDF417 認識のサポート
Aspose.Network for .NET で S/MIME プロトコルをサポート
Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.0 BETA 提供開始
Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services で MS Visual Studio 2008 と SQL Server 2008 をサポート
VSTO から Aspose への移植 – Aspose.Cells
Technical Article – Outlook Msg File Viewer
Technical Tip – Word ドキュメントを MHTML と Email へ変換

ウェルカム

Aspose Newsletter 2008年 7月号をご覧頂き、誠に有難うございます。今月のニュースレターでは、スポットライト製品として Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 製品を紹介します。また、Aspose.Words、Aspose.BarCode、Aspose.Network および Aspose.Recognition の最新リリースで提供する新機能を紹介します。 Aspose.Cells を使用した VSTO コードを Aspose への移植に関する情報をご案内します。今月の Tech-Tip では、Aspose の最新ニュースとして、Word ドキュメントを MHTML と Email へ変換する方法を紹介します。また、Technical Article では、Outlook Msg file viewer の作成方法を紹介します。

製品スポットライト

Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services は、Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services のネイティブな Excel レポートの配布を可能とします。 Excel ベースのレポートのネイティブなレンダーとは異なり、Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services は、 RDL レポートを Excel 97-2003 バイナリ XLS フォーマット、SpreadsheetML または Excel2007 XLSX フォーマットへ変換する拡張機能セットを提供します。評価版をダウンロードし、是非 Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services の機能をお試しください。

Aspose.Words for Java の改良

Aspose.Words for Java の最新バージョン 2.4.2.0 がリリースされました。本リリースでは、Word ドキュメントを開く際に発生する “Unrecognized format of the form field” 例外エラーを修正しました。詳細は、公式リリースページと関連するブログポストを参照してください。Aspose.Words for Java の最新バージョンは、ここからダウンロード可能です。Aspose.Words のドキュメントも更新しました。C#、VB.NET および Java の 3 つの言語のコード例が含まれます。The Getting Started and Programmer's Guide セクションを更新しました。100 以上のコード例code examples が含まれます。詳細は、関連するブログポストを参照してください。

Aspose.BarCode for .NET で Patch コードと MacroPDF417 認識のサポート

Aspose.BarCode for .NET version 2.6.0.0 がリリースされました。本リリースでは、Patch コードと MacroPDF417 認識のサポートが追加されました。また、.NET framework 3.5 でのビルドの最適化を行いました。詳細は、公式リリースページと関連するブログポストを参照してください。Aspose.BarCode for .NET の最新バージョンは、ここからダウンロード可能です。

Aspose.Network for .NET で S/MIME プロトコルをサポート

Aspose.Network for .NET の最新バージョン 3.9.0.0 がリリースされました。本リリースでは、S/MIME プロトコルのサポートを追加しました。これで、Emai メッセージにデジタル署名を追加できます。MIME パーサーへ改良と同様に、Outlook メッセージファイルリーダーのパフォーマンスを最適化しました。本リリースではまた、多くのバグの修正と改良が含まれます。詳細は、公式リリースページと関連するブログポストを参照してください。Aspose.Network for .NET の最新バージョンは、ここからダウンロード可能です。

Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.0 BETA 提供開始

Aspose.Recognition for .NET の初期ベータ版を提供開始しました。アプリケーションで、PDF ファイルを DOC、OOXML、ODT、RTF または HTML へ変換する場合、是非 Aspose.Recognition をお試しください。.NET class library の使い方は簡単で、どの .NET バージョンでも利用可能で、x86 と x64 モードの両方をサポートします。Aspose.Recognition は、Aspose 社の主要なドキュメント処理ライブラリ Aspose.Words を使用して、すべてのドキュメントフォーマットを処理します。詳細は、公式リリースページと関連するブログポストを参照してください。Aspose.Recognition for .NET のベータ版は、ここからダウンロード可能です。

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services で MS Visual Studio 2008 と SQL Server 2008 をサポート

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services の最新バージョンがリリースされ、これで Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 と Microsoft SQL Server 2008 の両方のサポートを提供します。本リリースでは、Aspose 社は、他のバーコードコンポーネントベンダーに先駆け、MS SQL Server 2008 機能をサポートします。詳細は、公式リリースページと関連するブログポストを参照してください。Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services の最新バージョンは、ここからダウンロード可能です。

VSTO から Aspose への移植 – Aspose.Cells


今月のニュースレターでは、VSTO コードを Aspose.Cells へ移植する方法を紹介し、新しいワークシートを既存の Excel ファイルへ追加、各ワークシートのセルへデータを入力、ワークブックのシートをアクティブにし、Excel ファイルとして保存します。記事の全文は、こちらからご覧ください。

Technical Article – Outlook Msg File Viewer

本記事では、C# アプリケーションで Outlook Msg ファイルをパースする方法を紹介します。この実装には、Aspose.Network for .NET を使用します。Outlook Msg file viewer を開発しました。ステップバイステップで開発手順を紹介します。デモアプリケーションのソースコードも提供してるので、ご参考ください。記事の全文は、こちらからご覧ください。

Technical Tip –– Word ドキュメントを MHTML と Email へ変換

Aspose.Words for .NET version 5.2.0.0 以降、MHTML (Web Archive) フォーマットでどのドキュメントも保存することができます。これによって、Aspose.Words と Aspose.Network を一緒に使用して、リッチコンテンツを持つ Email メッセージを作成し、送信するのが非常に簡単になりました。本 Technical Tip では、この方法を紹介します。記事の全文は、こちらからご覧ください。

本ニュースの日本語訳は、エクセルソフト株式会社が提供しています。

Aspose 顾客时事通讯, 2008 年7月

salman.sarfraz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:52:00 GMT

In This Issue

欢迎!
产品聚光灯 – Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services
Aspose.Words for Java的改进
Aspose.BarCode for .NET 目前可识别Patch编码和 MacroPDF417
Aspose.Network for .NET目前支持S/MIME协议
Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.0测试版可用
Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services 支持 MS Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008
从VSTO移植到Aspose – Aspose.Cells
技术文档 – Outlook Msg 文件浏览器
技术小技巧 – 转换Word文档到MHTML和Email

欢迎

欢迎阅读Aspose2008年7月份月度快报！在本期快报中我们将对我们的亮点产品Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services做出相关介绍。还将对新近发布的产品Aspose.Words, Aspose.BarCode, Aspose.Network以及Aspose.Recognition的新功能以及已有功能做出相关介绍。我们还将讲解如何使用Aspose.Cell将VSTO代码移植到Aspose。通过本月的技术小贴士，您将了解到来自Aspose的最新技术信息——如何转换Word文档为MHTML和Email。在我们的技术文章中还将介绍如何创建一个Outlook Msg文件浏览器。

产品聚光灯

Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 允许您在Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services中发布本地Excel报表。不同于Excel本地基本报表，Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services提供了额外的功能设置并允许 RDL报表转换为：Excel 97-2003 二进制XLS 格式、 SpreadsheetML 或 Excel 2007 XLSX 格式。现在就下载Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services的免费试用版并看看其是否满足您的业务需求吧。

Aspose.Words for Java 改进

Aspose.Words for Java的最新版本2.4.2.0已发布。新版本中，在打开word

文档时出现的"不可识别的表单域格式"异常已得到修复。更多信息您可用浏览官方发布网页和相关的博客文章. Aspose.Words for Java 的最新版本可在这里下载。我们已更新了Aspose.Words文章。包含了三种语言的代码示例：C#, VB.NET 和 Java。"开始指导" 和程序员指南部分也已更新。包含了100多个示例代码。 更多信息请浏览相关博客文章。

Aspose.BarCode for .NET可识别 Patch 编码和 MacroPDF417

我们已发布了Aspose.BarCode for .NET版本 2.6.0.0. 该版本中我们增加了对 Patch 编码 和 MacroPDF417 的识别。我们还完成了在.NET framework 3.5.下的优化。更多信息可浏览官方发布网页以及相关的博客文章。Aspose.BarCode for .NET的最新版本可在这里下载。

Aspose.Network for .NET 目前支持 S/MIME 协议

Aspose.Network for .NET 的最新版本3.9.0.0已发布。该版本支持S/MIME协议。目前您可以添加数字签名到您的email里。由于MIME parser得到改进从而Outlook message文件阅读器的性能也得到了优化。还包括了其他一些改进和bug的修复。更多信息请访问官方发布网页和相关的博客文章。Aspose.Network for .NET的最新版本可在这里下载。

Aspose.Recognition for .NET 1.0 测试版可用

我们刚刚发布了Aspose.Recognition for .NET的第一个测试版。如果您需要在程序中转换PDF文件为DOC, OOXML, ODT, RTF 或者 HTML ，您可以试试 Aspose.Recognition.。它是适用于任何.Net版本的.Net类库并支持x86和x64 模式。Aspose.Recognition使用了我们的领军的文档处理产品Aspose.Words来处理所有的文档格式。更多信息可访问官方发布网页以及相关的博客文章。Aspose.Recognition for .NET 的最新版本可在这里下载

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services 支持 MS Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008


Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services的最新版本已发布，其支持Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 和 Microsoft SQL Server 2008。该版本中，Aspose是第一个销售支持MS SQL Server 2008 功能条码组件的公司。更多详细信息您可访问官方发布网页和相关的博客文章。Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services 的最新版本可在这里下载。

从 VSTO 移植到 Aspose – Aspose.Cells


本月月报中，我们将介绍如何将您的VSTO代码移植到Aspose.Cells从而可为已有excel文件添加新的工作薄，为工作薄中的每个单元格填充数据，激活工作薄以及保存excel文件。您可以在here

技术文章 – Outlook Msg文件浏览器


本文中，我们将为您演示如何在C#程序中解析Outlook Msg文件。我们会用到Aspose.Network for .NET。我们已开发了一个完善的Outlook Msg文件浏览器。我们将一步一步交您如何实现。为了您的方便，我们会提供完整的Demo和源码。点击这里此处浏览完整的文章。

技术小技巧–转换 Word Document为MHTML和Email

使用Aspose.Words for .NET版本5.2.0.0，它可将任何文档保存为MHTML (Web 存档) 格式。使用 Aspose.Words 和 Aspose.Network 可轻易地生成带有丰富内容的邮件并发送它们。该技术贴士会告诉您如何实现。点击此处获取完整的技术贴士。

Aspose.Pdf for .Net 3.7.0.0 Released

forever — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:38:00 GMT

We have not published new release of this product for half a year. During this time, we pay our main attention on improving the quality of the product. In this new release, the quality is greatly improved and many bugs are fixed.

Some New features are added in this release. Bookmark at specific points is supported. Custom action for bookmark and link is supported. In XSL-FO2PDF, EMF and WMF image is supported. Security setting is also supported in XSL-FO2PDF.

Download URL:
http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.pdf/default.aspx

Aspose.Workflow for .NET v1.5 Released

iret — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:04:00 GMT

We just released Aspose.Workflow for .NET v1.5.0.0. In this release, we supports Oracle Data Provider for .NET.

The Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) features optimized ADO.NET data access to the Oracle database. Aspose.Workflow for ODP.NET allows developers to take advantage of advanced Oracle database functionality.

Here is download page:

http://www.aspose.com/community/files/54/utility-components/aspose.workflow/entry133561.aspx

Aspose.Cells 4.5.0.0 Released

Laurence — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:54:00 GMT

We have just released Aspose.Cells v4.5.0.0: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.cells/category1084.aspx .

In these new release, we not only add new features as usual, but also shape it's performance. Aspose.Cells aims to provide richest feature set and highest compatibility for different Excel files. In the mean time, performance is a very critical issue for our product. We make many performance testing and enhancement in v4.5.

Aspose.Slides for JasperReports 1.0.0.0 Released

alcrus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:49:00 GMT

Please welcome our new product Aspose.Slides for JasperReports!

Aspose.Slides for JasperReports is an external exporter for JasperReports and the only known solution on the market that makes possible exporting reports from JasperReports to Microsoft PowerPoint PPT and PPS formats.

The Zip file contains Aspose.Slides.JasperReports.jar, instructions how to configure it and API reference.

Licenses for purchase will be available in next few days. Without license exporter will produce presentations with watermark.

Contact us in the Aspose.Slides forum with any technical questions and requests.

Pleasse check download link.

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services v1.4.0.0 Supports SQL Server 2008

iret — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:18:00 GMT

We have just released Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services v1.4.0.0.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 are supported in this release. We are the first barcode component vender that supports the Sql Server 2008 features.

Here is the download link:

http://www.aspose.com/community/files/52/ssrs-rendering-extensions/aspose.barcode.reporting.services/entry132716.aspx

Aspose.Form for .NET v1.3.0.0 Released

iret — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:43:00 GMT

We have releaed Aspose.Form for .NET v1.3.0.0.

In this release, we improved the UI for repeating elements for example repeating section, repeating table, and repeating row. A contextual menu is added to these element to provide insert/remove functions.

Moreover, we also rewrited the rendering engine to support Master Page in ASP.NET and User Control.

In order to upgrad to the v1.3.0.0, you need to follow the steps:

1. Use Aspose.Form.Web.UI.WebControls.XmlFormViewer to replace the FormControl

2. add httpmodule to your web config as following

Download Page:

http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/file-format-components/aspose.form/entry132679.aspx

Aspose.Recognition 1.0 BETA is Now Available!

romank — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:35:00 GMT

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.

See the product homepage for more info http://www.aspose.com/categories/file-format-components/aspose.recognition-for-.net/default.aspx

And yes, it is BETA. So feel free to post feedback and feature requests in the support forum http://www.aspose.com/community/forums/aspose.recognition/441/showforum.aspx!

Eating one's own dog food again!

romank — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:44:00 GMT

Aspose.Words for .NET is the dog food again and we are eating it in our new product Aspose.Recognition for .NET.

Aspose.Recognition is a fresh new product from Aspose and it is touted to later grow into a powerful "fixed-layout" to "flow-layout" document converter. At the moment it is only a 1.0 BETA and can convert PDF to all output formats supported by Aspose.Words for .NET such as DOC, OOXML, RTF, ODT and HTML. Future features planned are OCR document recognition and output to more document formats.

When you download and use Aspose.Recognition, no other software is necessary. Downloading Aspose.Words separately is not needed because in this version Aspose.Recognition embeds a document generation engine of Aspose.Words (although this might later change if more Office output formats are supported with help of other Aspose components).

Other places where Aspose.Words is used at Aspose:

Aspose.Editor for .NET to open and save documents.
Aspose.Words for Reporting Services to generate reports.
Aspose.Words for JasperReports (coming soon).
Generation of Aspose Documentation pages.

If you need PDF to word processing documents conversion in your project, give Aspose.Recognition a try and share your experience with us in the support forums. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Need a difference tool that can find moved lines. Do you know any?

romank — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:45:00 GMT

There are heaps of commercial and free difference tools available. Only few of them can find moved blocks of lines. At the moment I'm only aware of WinDiff, WinMerge and Compare It. However I need to be able to "jump" between move source and destination and only Compare It allows it. I also need to generate a report that distinguishes moved lines from simple insertions or deletions. None of the tools do that. Is that a very weird requirement?

If you know a good tool that can reliably find moved lines and generate a report let me know, it will be appreciated.

Aspose.Recognition 1.0 BETA is coming soon!

romank — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:21:00 GMT

Watch this space, we will make Aspose.Recogntion 1.0 BETA available in the next few days.

Outlook Message (.msg) File Viewer

saqib.razzaq — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:18:00 GMT

We have added a new demo and an article for parsing and reading outlook message (.msg) files. You can now read outlook msg files using your own code. Microsoft Office Outlook is not required for it. A screenshot of the demo is shown below:

The demo can be downloaded from http://www.aspose.com/community/files/54/utility-components/aspose.network/entry130065.aspx. To read the article about how to implement it in your own application, please visit http://www.aspose.com/documentation/utility-components/aspose.network-for-.net/outlook-msg-file-viewer.html. The trial version of library can be downloaded from http://www.aspose.com/categories/utility-components/aspose.network-for-.net/default.aspx.

Aspose.Words Documentation Updated with Java Examples

romank — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:04:00 GMT

I am happy to announce that Aspose.Words Documentation was updated. It now includes all code examples in three languages: C#, VB.NET and Java!

The Getting Started and Programmer's Guide sections were updated. They contain over 100 code examples. See http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/the-mergeimagefield-event.html for an example.

The Aspose.Words API Reference had all examples in C#, VB.NET and Java already.

Aspose.Network for .NET v3.9.0.0 Released

iret — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:16:00 GMT

Aspose.Network for .NET v3.9.0.0 has released.

In this major release, we supported S/MIME protocol features. Now you can add a digital signature to your email message.

Here is the sample code:

// load the certificate and associated private key from a file
X509Certificate2 certificate = X509Certificate2.LoadPfx("mycer.pfx", "password");

// create an instance of MailMessage
MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

        // set its properties to desired values
        message.From = "sender@domain.com";
        message.To = recipient @domain.com;
        message.Subject = "This is a signed message";
        message.TextBody = "Hello, world!";
        // attach a digital signature
        message.AttachSignature(certificate);
        SmtpClient.Send(message);

Download Link:

http://www.aspose.com/community/files/54/utility-components/aspose.network/entry129551.aspx