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MESCIUS inc, a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce the ComponentOne 2024 v2 release. The highlights of the year's final major release include .NET 9 support, Microsoft Office 365 Themes for WinForms and WPF, cross-platform enhancements for the “Flex” family of controls, and much more.
Microsoft officially announced the .NET 9 update in November 2024, and the ComponentOne team is pleased to offer complete .NET 9 support with the latest control packages. ComponentOne has been diligently working with every .NET 9 preview this past year to address the sweeping changes that come with every new .NET update before they reach users. This includes changes to the drag-and-drop cursor, clipboard, and binary serialization in several libraries. Like .NET 7, the ComponentOne team only offers the LTS versions as packages and has ensured .NET 9 support in .NET 8 packages. Read the release article to learn more about ComponentOne’s .NET support.
With the ComponentOne 2024 v2 release, the team can officially share that the Office 365 Themes for WinForms and WPF are production-ready. These themes provide desktop applications with the latest Windows software styles. Users can choose from several variations, including white, gray, dark, green, and colorful. Additionally, users can create their own themes based on the Office 365 themes with the Theme Designer. Visit the website to learn more about ComponentOne’s Office 365 Themes for WinForms and WPF.
In this latest release, there have been many updates to the popular “Flex” family of controls. FlexGrid now includes the ability to import data from Excel files and scroll by row/column in WPF. There are new zooming and panning behaviors in FlexChart for WinForms and WPF editions. FlexViewer is now production-ready in Blazor and has a beta version for WinUI. Read the release article for additional enhancements in ComponentOne’s “Flex” family of controls.
"In addition to having built-in themes that require no coding, our Office 365 themes are also customizable,” said Product Manager, Greg Lutz. “We provide a standalone Theme Designer application which allows you to modify built-in WinForms themes and create new ones from scratch."
MESCIUS inc., a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce the Spread .NET v18 release. The highlights of Spread .NET v18 include exciting features, such as enhanced PDF output quality, a new WPF spreadsheet, copying skip invisible ranges, and more. These features expand developers' capabilities within their .NET applications when building high-performance enterprise spreadsheets. Spread .NET v18 is now available as an upgrade for existing customers and a download for new customers on the MESCIUS website.
With Spread .NET v18, saving .NET spreadsheets to PDF delivers higher resolution and improved image quality, in line with Excel-compatible printing features. Rich text, flat style modes, transparent shapes, and header/footer images are better rendered, providing professional-grade PDF outputs. Read the release announcement to learn more about the enhanced PDF output quality in Spread .NET v18.
This latest release introduces an all-new WPF spreadsheet component version with significant enhancements, including iterative calculations, dynamic arrays, advanced charting, and external data integration. This update sets the stage for continued WPF innovations in future releases. Visit the website to get started with Spread .NET’s new WPF spreadsheet version.
In Spread .NET v18, users can copy cell ranges while excluding hidden rows and columns. To streamline operations in spreadsheets with filtered or hidden data, enable the RichClipboard and CopySkipInvisibleRange properties. Learn how to get started with this Spread .NET v18 release feature.
“We just released Spread .NET v18, which included some big features like enhanced PDF export and a brand new WPF Spreadsheet version, providing a few calculation enhancements, a new chart engine, and a formula text box,” said Product Manager Kevin Ashley. “These features can help enhance your applications with more Excel-like capabilities in both WinForms and WPF.”
MESCIUS inc., a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce the Document Solutions v8 release. This release introduces features and enhancements to MESCIUS’ server-side document APIs, JavaScript document viewers, and editors. The v8 update includes many innovative features to elevate the document processing experience.
In this latest release, Document Solutions for Excel adds the ability to import data from simple enumerable, 2D array (.NET only), multidimensional array, and many other types of data sources. Document Solutions for Excel also allows new overloads to the IRange.ImportData(..) method that now also enables importing data from a data source to the range. Read the release announcement to learn more about importing data from object collections and data tables in Document Solutions for Excel v8.
In Document Solutions for PDF v8, multiple enhancements have been made to optimize the performance of loading and saving PDF files and the file size of the generated PDF. One of the enhancements includes optimizing how Document Solutions for PDF works with object streams. Document Solutions for PDF introduces an API that can help load and save PDFs with optimization options. Using the new API, users can re-save an existing PDF with the desired compression settings, affecting all streams. Visit the website to learn more about optimizing PDF documents with Document Solutions for PDF.
The v8 release of Document Solutions PDF Viewer adds new Replace options in the UI to conveniently replace text in PDF documents. The expand icon in the Search bar activates the text replacement mode, where users can provide the text to search in the “Find in document” textbox and the text to replace in the “Replace” textbox. Additionally, a new keyboard shortcut, “Ctrl+H,” has been introduced, which opens the Search Bar with the text replacement mode already enabled. View the release article to learn more about additional v8 enhancements for Document Solutions PDF Viewer.
“We're thrilled to unveil Document Solutions v8, packed with powerful new features and enhancements,” said Product Manager Hunter Haaf. “From optimizing PDFs with object streams to advanced What-If analysis in Excel, this release brings greater flexibility and efficiency to your document workflows. With seamless integration across our document APIs and viewers, v8 will elevate your productivity to new heights.”
MESCIUS inc., a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce the SpreadJS v18 release. The highlights of SpreadJS v18 include a new optional DataCharts add-on component, several workbook enhancements, dynamic data source support in the optional PivotTable add-on, and much more. SpreadJS v18 is now available as an upgrade for existing customers and a download for new customers on the MESCIUS website.
SpreadJS v18 introduces a new optional DataCharts add-on. This powerful new component allows developers to bind charts directly to the Data Manager data, eliminating the need to store data within the SpreadJS workbook. For ReportSheet users, the new DataCharts add-on is included and seamlessly integrates with the same Data Manager, enabling users to enhance reports with dynamic charts effortlessly. If users wish to utilize the DataCharts add-on within spreadsheets outside the ReportSheet add-on, a separate DataCharts add-on license is required. Read the release announcement to learn how to start with the DataCharts.
The team has added several workbook enhancements in SpreadJS v18. The standard orientation for SpreadJS is left-to-right, but with this release, the team has officially added right-to-left orientation, which can be enabled by setting the “RightToLeft” option of the worksheet to “true.” With the v18 release, Table Data Binding functionality is updated to support binding to a table in the Data Manager. This means that the data and formulas of a sheet table can now be added to a data manager table to keep the data more centralized for use in other areas of SpreadJS. Visit the website to learn more about the new workbook enhancements in SpreadJS v18.
The SpreadJS v18 release now supports changing the data source and synchronizing the existing layout information to the new data source in the optional Pivot Table add-on. The updateSource method is used to change the current data source and is useful when more rows need to be added, or an existing dataset must be modified. This can also be accomplished with the Designer UI. Explore other updates to SpreadJS’ optional PivotTable add-on component.
“SpreadJS v18 has just been released, and we have added a few big features, such as our new DataCharts Add-On, providing flexible data-bound charts that utilize our DataManager,” said Product Manager Kevin Ashley. “These new features can help create more robust JavaScript applications that make data easier to work with and streamline data management across all parts of SpreadJS.”
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