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Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls (WinForms & WPF) – Tips & Tricks (April-May 2021)

We have compiled a list of interesting support tickets answered throughout April and May. We hope you find these support tickets interesting and of business value. Should you have any questions, feel free to comment below. Tips & Tricks PDF Document API...

Office Products Team

24 May 2021

Office File API & Office-Inspired Desktop UI Controls – Tips & Tricks (January-March 2021)

The first portion of this blog post includes interesting support tickets answered over the last few months. The second half includes enhancements to our Office and PDF File API/Office-inspired UI controls for WinForms and WPF....

Office Products Team

25 March 2021

Office File API v20.2 – Digital Signatures in Office Documents

As of our last major release (v20.2), our Office File API offers support for digital signatures. You can use XAdES-BES and XAdES-T signatures with X.509 certificates. Our API allows you to execute the following actions: ...

Office Products Team

11 February 2021

Word Processing: WinForms, WPF, Office File API - OLE Objects (v20.2)

As you may already know, our Word Processing File API and our Rich Text UI controls (Word Processing for both WinForms and WPF) support OLE objects. OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology allows you to insert data (spreadsheets, images, presentations, charts, etc.) from external applications into your document....

Office Products Team

5 February 2021

Office File API & Office-Inspired UI Controls – Tips & Tricks (November-December 2020)

We have compiled a short list of interesting support tickets answered throughout November and December. This post also includes a few enhancements you may wish to leverage in your current project. We hope you find these support tickets interesting and of business value. Should you have any questions, feel free to comment below or submit a support ticket via the DevExpress Support Center. We’ll be more than happy to follow-up....

Office Products Team

4 February 2021

.NET Spreadsheet v20.2 - Excel 2016 Charts (CTP)

The DevExpress Spreadsheet Document API and our Spreadsheet UI controls (for WinForms and WPF) support a broad range of 2D and 3D chart types. In our most recent major release (v20.2), we extended the list of supported chart types and added support for Excel 2016 charts. Excel 2016 chart support is available as a CTP (community tech preview)....

Office Products Team

21 January 2021

WPF Spreadsheet - New Layout Calculation Engine (v20.2)

As you may already know, our WPF Spreadsheet control v20.2 ships with a new layout calculation engine. In this post, we’ll detail the enhancements made to our new WPF Spreadsheet layout engine and what you can expect when the control is incorporated into your WPF application....

Office Products Team

15 January 2021

PDF Document API - PAdES - BES (LT and LTA levels) Signatures

As you may already know, our PDF Document API v20.1 offers digital signature support. For background information on our implementation, please review the following blog posts: PDF Document API v20.1 - Multiple Signatures and Timestamps PDF Document API...

Office Products Team

6 January 2021

Spreadsheet Document API - How to Create a Loan Amortization Schedule within Your .NET 5 Blazor Server App

.NET 5 is officially here and as you may already know, our Office File API library v20.2 is fully compatible with .NET 5. In this post, we’ll explain how you can create a Blazor Server application that targets .NET 5 and leverages the capabilities of our Spreadsheet Document API to build a loan amortization schedule....

Office Products Team

5 January 2021

Word Processing: WinForms, WPF, Office File API - Layout Rendering Enhancements (v20.2)

As you may already know, our Word Processing File API, and our RTF controls for both WinForms and WPF now offer improved document layout accuracy (to better mirror Microsoft Word 2013 and higher). These v20.2 enhancements affect both table layout and paragraph alignment....

Office Products Team

16 December 2020