Office-Inspired Products

• .NET Core
• 2020
• 2021
• 2023
• Accessibility
• Charts
• Office
• Office File API
• PDF
• prerelease
• Printing
• Rich Text
• Rich Text Editor
• Roadmap
• Signature
• Signatures
• Spreadsheet
• V19.1
• v19.2
• v20.1
• v20.2
• v21.1
• v21.2
• WinForms
• Word Processing
• WPF

Office File API — Enhance Accessibility and Language Support in Word Documents using Azure AI Services

In my two previous AI-related blog posts, I explained how you can generate accessible descriptions for images, charts and hyperlinks used within Word and Excel documents using DevExpress Office File API libraries and the Azure AI OpenAI service: Office...

Maria Nikulina (DevExpress)

17 June 2024

Office File API — Enhance Accessibility in Office Documents (Word & Excel) using OpenAI Models

For accessibility-related reasons, certain business usage scenarios require that Office documents include meaningful descriptions/alternative text (Alt Text) for graphics content (images, charts, etc). Alt Text helps individuals with visual impairments...

Poline Fedorova (DevExpress)

8 May 2024

Spreadsheet Document API, Spreadsheet Controls (Win and WPF) — Chart Enhancements (v23.2)

WinForms and WPF Spreadsheet Chart API enhancements introduced in our last major release (v23.2) ...

Margarita (DevExpress)

2 February 2024

Word Processing Document API, Rich Text Editors (WinForms and WPF) — Text Rotation in Tables (v23.1)

As you may already know, we recently extended the capabilities of our Table API and added support for content rotation within document tables (v23.1). This feature is available for our word processing product line ( Word Processing Document API , desktop...

Poline Fedorova (DevExpress)

11 July 2023

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls — Early Access Preview (v23.1) — .NET MAUI Support, Embedded Fonts, Threaded Comments and More

Build your best with our award-winning user interface components for WinForms, Blazor, ASP.NET, MVC, WPF, VCL and JavaScript. Leverage the power of DevExpress UI libraries and deliver apps, documents, reports and dashboards that amaze....

Poline Fedorova (DevExpress)

13 April 2023

.NET Spreadsheet (WinForms, WPF, Office File API) – Create Thumbnail Images for Worksheets and Chart Sheets (v21.2)

Our Spreadsheet Document API v21.2 allows you to generate thumbnails from worksheets and chart sheets. A thumbnail is a small image that you can insert into a document, presentation, or website to display a preview of worksheet or chart sheet content...

Office Products Team

21 February 2022

Word Processing: WinForms, WPF, Office File API – Watermark API Enhancements (v21.2)

As you may know, we overhauled watermark support across our Word Processing product line (Document API and UI controls for WinForms and WPF) in our most recent release cycle (v21.2). Changes include an enhanced API and the ability to modify existing watermarks/add different watermarks to document sections....

Office Products Team

14 February 2022

Office File API & Office-Inspired UI Controls – 2022 Roadmap

Based on your votes and feedback, we’ve finalized our 2022 Office File API and Office-inspired UI Controls Roadmap. We thank you for your continued support and for sharing your needs/requirements. If you’d like to discuss the items on this roadmap in greater detail, or if you’d like to share a business use case that we don’t support, feel free to submit your comments below. We’ll be happy to follow-up....

Office Products Team

8 February 2022

PDF Document API – How to Use Page Facade API to Update Bates Numbering (v21.2)

Though the digital realm has overtaken much of society, paper documents or “paper trails” remain crucial for certain market segments (for instance, the legal professionals often produce paper documents that span hundreds, if not thousands of pages). To help better organize and identify these documents, you can use different indexing methods, including Bates numbering. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use DevExpress PDF Document API to update sequential page numbering across PDF files, a...

Office Products Team

27 January 2022

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls - Use Custom Fonts without Installation on the System (v21.2)

In our most recent major release (v21.2), we added custom font support to our Spreadsheet and Word Processing product lines. You can now load and apply custom fonts to avoid font substitution effects when you display, print, or export (to PDF) documents (when/if a document includes fonts not installed on the target operating system, in Azure App Service, or a Docker container)....

Office Products Team

19 January 2022