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In this major release, Aspose.Grid for .NET supports the following features.

- GridWeb is now compiled under both 1.0 and 2.0 frameworks.
- Fully supports .NET 2.0 framework.
- Supports .NET 2.0 MEDIUM TRUST LEVEL.
- Supports .NET 2.0 DataSourceControl Binding.
- New Client Api Method resizeColumnToFit.
- Supports Windows Vista.

More about Aspose.Grid or .NET

Aspose.Grid is a set of two different GUI based .NET components to support desktop and web applications. It enables you to import from and export to Excel spreadsheets, DataTable and DataView. Worksheet processing features like worksheet pagination, add/remove worksheets, add/insert/remove rows and columns of a worksheet and protecting your cells by locking or hiding them are also supported. It further supports formulae, pictures, hyperlinks, grid events and creating dynamic pivot tables.
More info here: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.grid/archive/2008/05/15/aspose-grid-for-net-v2-0-0-0-released.aspx

 



What’s new in this release?

Aspose.Workflow now supports Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) to access Oracle database and a new Lock Policy has also been introduced to avoid exclusive access to the backend LockTable.

More about Aspose.Workflow for .NET

Aspose.Workflow is a .NET component which helps managing workflow applications for automating business processes and designing them in GUI mode. It provides a powerful workflow engine along with a full set of industry standard workflow objects. Other useful features like join/split activity, package/process variables, user/group management, participant mapping and WFMC standards for XPDL & WF-XML are also supported. It further supports Microsoft Access, SQL Server and Oracle (ODP.NET).

 More info: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.workflow/archive/2008/06/30/aspose-workflow-for-net-v1-5-released.aspx



Barcode rendering in SQL Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is a .NET solution for the rendering of barcode images in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008 Reporting Services and Visual Studio 2008 IDE. It supports 25 linear (1D) and 2D barcode symbologies including MacroPdf417, OneCode, Code128, Code39, EAN13, PDF417, UPCA, Codabar, MSI and QR etc. Also render barcode images on reports in BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF formats. Other features include DPI resolution settings, barcode size and location adjustments.

See more:

http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.barcode/archive/2008/06/24/aspose-barcode-for-reporting-services-v1-4-0-0-supports-sql-server-2008.aspx



Aspose publishes July 2008 Newsletter for .NET & Java programmers by highlighting the newly supported features by  Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services, Aspose.Words, Aspose.BarCode, Aspose.Network and Aspose.Recognition. We will also provide information about migrating your VSTO code to Aspose using Aspose.Cells. This month’s technical article tells you about how to create an Outlook MSG file viewer and the monthly technical tip demonstrates about converting a Word document to MHTML and Email.

Read more: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/customer.newsletters/archive/2008/07/01/aspose-customer-newsletter-july-2008.aspx

 



With Aspose.Recognition you can add intelligent PDF to word processing documents conversion to your 32-bit and 64-bit .NET applications. Aspose.Recognition reads a PDF file, recognizes editable document structures and allows saving the resulting document as Microsoft Word (DOC), Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODT), Rich Text Format (RTF), WordprocessingML (XML), HTML, XHTML, MHTML and Plain Text (TXT).

Link for story: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.recognition/archive/2008/06/22/aspose-recognition-1-0-beta-is-now-available.aspx



InCisif.net is an automation tool designed to implement client-side functional testing of Web applications under Internet Explorer 6 or 7, using languages such as VB.Net, C# or IronPython.

The version 2.2 focus on a better integration with Visual Studio.

Tests can be recorded, edited, executed and debugged from within Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 or 2008.
Visual Studio Express is also supported.
 
To learn more and download an evaluation copy, go to http://www.incisif.net



Aspose.BarCode for .NET now supports MacroPDF417 and Patch barcode (T-Code) recognition with additional new samples for VS 2005.

More about Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Aspose.BarCode is a .NET component for generation and recognition of Linear and 2D barcodes on all kinds of .NET applications. It supports 20+ Barcode Symbologies like OneCode, QR, Aztec, MSI, EAN128, EAN14, SSCC18, ITF14, Code128, Code39, Postnet, MarcoPDF417, Datamatrix, UPCA etc. Other features include barcode insertion in PDF, Word and Excel documents and take image output in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and WMF formats. You can also control image styles such as background color, bar color etc.

http://www.aspose.com/categories/visual-components/aspose.barcode-for-.net-and-java/default.aspx



Aspose.Network is a suite of .NET components for network programming with support for .NET logging framework, Microsoft Exchange Server and allows parsing an Outlook document with drag & drop feature. It provides SSL support for SMTP, POP3 & IMAP protocols with other mail merge features and sending bulk emails. You can import & export emails in MHT & EML formats. It supports all the useful features of SMTP, MIME, S/MIME, POP3, FTP, WhoIs, DNS, ICMP, IMAP, HTTP, SOCKS 4/4A and SOCKS 5 components.

Follow this link and read more: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.network/archive/2008/06/02/aspose-network-for-net-v3-9-0-0-released.aspx



Bratislava, Slovakia — Tuesday, June 10, 2008 — Resco, a supplier of advanced developer tools and components for mobile devices, today announced availability of Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 2, a rich suite of Visual Studio controls and libraries designed specifically for mobile devices.

Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 2 contains these brand new controls:

Resco ImageBox for .NET CF – control for displaying and manipulating images (supports png, tiff, jpg) Resco ImageButton for .NET CF - modifiable, adjustable and skinable button Resco Audio for .NET CF - library for playing and recording audio (supports wav, ogg, raf, spx) Developers can display images using Resco ImageBox for .NET CF and manipulate them by resizing, zooming, rotating, adjusting brightness, gamma correction, contrast and more.

ImageButton for .NET CF not only allows visualizing the focus of the button, but also gives it a professional look such as that of Windows Vista.

Resco Audio for .NET CF allows developers to play or record audio files and it is even able to convert from one audio format to another.

"Built-in multimedia hardware like microphone, speakers and camera bring new potential to mobile devices", said Vladimr Gregor, Sales and Marketing Manager of Resco Enterprise Solutions. "Thanks to Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 2, the developers can now easily display and manipulate images and play or record sounds with just a few lines of code."

One of the most powerful new features of Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 2 is the Touch Scroll support. The users no longer need to use the stylus to scroll the contents of the control, but they can use their thumb instead. Moreover, the only thing the developers need to do to take advantage of Touch Scroll, is turn on one property in Microsoft Visual Studio designer.

"Windows Mobile-based devices are becoming a commonplace in the current world," said Jim Roxe, Group Product Manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft Corp. "With new controls from Resco, the development of mobile applications is becoming easier, which improves their usage in various consumer and business activities."

Availability and Pricing
Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 2 is now available. The Standard Edition is priced at $499.95, the Professional Edition at $999.95, and the Enterprise Edition at $1,999.95. Resco offers this product with 1 year of free support and upgrades.

Link for story: http://resco.net/developer/company/news.aspx?file=2008-06-10



Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services makes it possible generating PDF reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Reporting Services. Some advanced features like XMP metadata, custom embedded font and rendering watermark for pages are now supported. All RDL report features including sections, images, charts, tables, matrices, headers and footers are converted with the highest degree of precision to PDF. It also enables you creating Pdf documents on the server without using Adobe PDF Library SDK.

See more: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.pdf/archive/2008/05/02/aspose-pdf-for-reporting-services-v1-3-0-0-released.aspx



What’s new in this release?

Aspose.Words for .NET supports saving Word documents in MHTML and OpenDocument Text – ODT formats.

About Aspose.Words for .NET

Aspose.Words is a word processing component that enables .NET applications to read, write, modify & convert Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Other useful features include document creation, content and formatting manipulation, mail merge abilities, reporting features and support of Office Open XML formats, DOCX, DOC, WordML, ODT, HTML, XHTML, MHTML, TXT and PDF formats. It supports Windows Vista and 64-bit operating systems. Also use Aspose.Words to build applications with Mono.

 Read more: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.words/archive/2008/05/15/aspose-words-for-net-5-2-0-released.aspx



Aspose publishes June 2008 Newsletter for .NET & Java programmers by highlighting the newly supported features in the recent releases of Aspose.Metafiles, Aspose.Words, Aspose.Words for Reporting Services, Aspose.Pdf.Kit, Aspose.BarCode, Aspose.Workflow, Aspose.Grid and Aspose.Network. This month’s technical article tells you how to dynamically generate formatted Excel reports with an elegant graph and the monthly technical tip demonstrates about sending email using DNS.

 Newsletter link: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/customer.newsletters/archive/2008/06/01/aspose-customer-newsletter-june-2008.aspx



Resco, a supplier of advanced developer tools and components for mobile devices, today announced the availability of Resco ImageButton for .NET CF Beta. A smart button control capable of not only visualizing the focus, but also displaying an arbitrary image as its surface. The image can change every time the button is clicked which provides for interesting visual effects.

"A nice looking and intuitive UI is the key for a successful mobile application," said Gabriel Minarik, Resco's component developer. "The Resco ImageButton for .NET CF allows developers to design custom shaped buttons with images and other visual effects, making applications more attractive."

Resco ImageButton for .NET CF also offers the following functionality:

Allows you to set an image or a color to display Allows you to set an image or a color to display when clicked You can set a color to use for the button background when it has focus You can set a higher resolution image for VGA devices The ImageButton for .NET CF control can automatically detect whether it is running on a standard resolution device or a VGA device. If you set a different image for VGA devices and standard resolution devices the ImageButton automatically displays the correct one.

Follow this link and read more: http://resco.net/developer/company/news.aspx?file=2008-05-20-2

 



Resco, a supplier of advanced developer tools and components for mobile devices, today announced the availability of Resco ImageBox for .NET CF Beta. This professional Visual Studio control allows developers to open, display, modify and save images in various formats. Supported formats include jpg, bmp, multiframe gif, png, tiff, and more. The ImageBox control also supports the touch scroll feature which allows users to scroll images using their finger instead of the stylus.

"Having the ability to display and process images in .NET Compact Framework was really something that customers were missing and looking for," said Roland Haulitusz, Resco's component developer. "By implementing Resco ImageBox for .NET CF the developers will gain a fast and memory-conserving tool for image manipulation on mobile devices."

Resco ImageBox for .NET CF offers the following functionality:

Loading of images from different locations (file, data stream, or Internet) Image loading optimized for speed or quality Zooming, resizing and cropping of images Rotation of images and color inversion Adjusting of brightness, contrast and gamma correction values Saving of images in selected file format Touch scroll support "Resco has extensive experience in processing images on mobile devices which was gathered during the development and refinement of the Resco Photo Viewer application," said Radomr Vozar, director of Resco Enterprise Solutions. "Now we are offering our know-how to the developers in form of this professional control."

The increasing performance of today's mobile devices as well as the variety of hardware equipment, such as cameras, offers new possibilities of utilization of these devices. An insurance agent, for example, could use an application allowing him to take a picture of the scene of accident, modify it and send it to the central database for further reference. Other business sectors requiring photographic documentation, such as real estate agents or machinery servicemen, also require this kind of applications. The Tiff file format support is suitable for fax transmission applications.

 You can read more at this link: http://resco.net/developer/company/news.aspx?file=2008-05-20-1



Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is a .NET solution for the rendering of barcode images in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Reporting Services.  It supports 25 linear and 2D barcode symbologies including MacroPdf417, OneCode, Code128, Code39, EAN13, EAN8, PDF417, UPCA, Codabar, MSI, SSCC18 and QR etc. You can also render barcode images on reports in BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF formats. Other features include barcode image rotation, DPI resolution settings, barcode size and location adjustments.

Check it out here: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.barcode/archive/2008/05/14/aspose-barcode-for-reporting-services-v1-3-0-0.aspx



Montreal, Quebec, Canada - May 13, 2008: VisualHint releases Smart PropertyGrid.Net 3.0, featuring complete support for right to left languages, lazy loading for performance, and many new features, like property value icons and incremental search while typing, for an increased usability.

Smart PropertyGrid.Net 3.0 sets a new standard for this component that was at first intended to be used only in Visual Studio. After having greatly improved the way multiple target instances can be handled, which throws out the Microsoft PropertyGrid behavior, this version shines with a first-class support for right to left languages, like hebrew and arabic, something rarely seen among .net components. The grid is perfectly mirrored in every aspect and will bring a new experience for your customers. Additionally the overall performance has been drastically improved by implementing lazy loading, a term indicating that only needed properties are loaded at runtime: the grid can now target objects with thousands of properties with confidence. Version 3.0 also adds a nice way to set icons beside the property values, either tied to its semantic value or simply to show a state like a warning or a mandatory field. At last, among the new major features, incremental search has been added for every type of inplace control, even for those UITypeEditors whose source code is inaccessible: this brings to the end-user a quick way to select a new value for a property, when standard values are available. Many other minor features have been added and can be consulted in the changelog.

As a reminder, Smart PropertyGrid is the replacement of choice for developers who want a managed, powerful and flexible PropertyGrid for their desktop application. Based on a solid design, with a completely dynamic nature, Smart PropertyGrid.Net fixes the known shortcomings of its Microsoft counterpart and is the only product that is also compatible with it.

Link for story: http://www.visualhint.com/index.php/announcements/post/smart_propertygridnet_30_a_propertygrid_has_never_been_so_usable/



Aspose.Words for Reporting Services is a rendering extension for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services (32 bit & 64 bit). It allows you to export your RDL reports to flow layout documents and provides comprehensive support for exporting them to DOCX, DOC, HTML, RTF, TXT and WordprocessingML formats. All RDL report features including tables, report columns, matrices, charts, textboxes, lists, images, rectangles and subreports are also converted to Microsoft Word documents.

Link for story: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/aspose.words/archive/2008/04/28/aspose-words-for-reporting-services-2-2-0-0-released.aspx



Aspose publishes May 2008 Newsletter for .NET & Java programmers. We will also look at the new and exciting features offered in the recent releases of Aspose.AdHoc, Aspose.Words, Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services, Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services, Aspose.Slides, Aspose.Pdf.Kit, and Aspose.Cells. You will learn about the latest news from Aspose along with the featured technical article telling how to convert DOC to PDF with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using Aspose components?

Read the full story here: http://www.aspose.com/community/blogs/customer.newsletters/archive/2008/05/02/aspose-customer-newsletter-may-2008.aspx



CalendarGo! Bundle is pack of multiple windows forms .NET calendars and schedulers that allow you to plan your appointments and browse them in various ways. The newest version gives support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. There are few improvements in managing colors of cells. That improvements help to state different part of day: lunch, free time, night, etc. There are following controls: daily calendar, weekly calendar, monthly calendar, resource scheduler. A single line of code embeds a fully functional calendar or resource scheduler (Gantt diagram) in your application saving you hundreds hours' worth of coding. CalendarGo! Bundle allows you to programmatically control almost every aspect of your calendar's appearance and Gantt's diagram. Microsoft Outlook®-like operation and look-and-feel make use by non-power users possible. Simple programming interface allows for easy integration with Microsoft Visual Studio® using a Visual Design mode and facilitates programming using XML, ADO.NET, Web Services, etc.
Includes full C# source code.

FEATURES:

Similar to Microsoft Outlook – Resource manager  – Similar to Microsoft Project – Full control over color from a Visual Designer – Drag&drop support – Printing support – Defining tooltips – Recurrence support – Images for appointments and resources – Simple programming – LinkedCalendar handling – Send data to MS Outlook – Toolbar handling – Calendar customization – Common collections – Common events model – Holiday support – On-demand data access – Edit In Place – Owner draw – Multiple columns for a resource – Design Mode support – Multilingual – Current day and current time marker – Reading from and saving to ADO.NET

This news can be read at http://www.componentgo.com/wf

 



The WebCalendarGo 2.3.8 is a modern appointments management control for ASP.NET 2.0. The newest version gives support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. There are improvements of setup program and deploying of finished projects onto web server. The look-and-feel of Microsoft Web Outlook is user friendly. AJAX technology gives one the possibility to drag and drop an appointment across a time-plan grid in order to change time, day and/or resource, or to edit a text in place. There is a possibility of programming a control from a web browser by using a JavaScript client object. It also allows to significantly reducing HTML code size transmitting to the web browser to create faster appearing final page. The calendar was designed to be compatible with multiple browsers (not only IE!). The capability to define view and contents of the calendar in detail was combined with ease of programming and usage of ASP.NET 2.0 in the latest Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008.

Includes full C# source code.

FEATURES:

IE, Netscape, Firefox – HTML+JavaScript – Minimum HTML size – Microsoft Web Outlook – Simple programming – JavaScript object – AJAX postbacks – Context Menus – Multilingual – Resource manager – Full control over color from a Visual Designer and Auto format – Smart tags (Action list) – Defining tooltips – All day rectangle – Customizable hours resolution – Edit text appointment (Edit In Place) – Extended appointment display – Drag & Drop functionality – Customizable hours – Multiple days – Reading from and saving to ADO.NET – CLS Compliant & Code Analysis

 Feel free to visit this link for more details: http://www.componentgo.com/asp

 


 
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