Office-Inspired UI Components and File API – Enhancements, Tips & Tricks (August 2019)

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The following is a short list of support tickets we answered in August – support tickets you may find useful as you incorporate DevExpress desktop Office-inspired controls and our File API library (DOC, XLS, PDF) in your next .NET project. As always, we welcome your comments and feedback.

If you come across a useful Support Center ticket we failed to list in this blog post, feel free to share it with the DevExpress developer community by commenting below.

Enhancements and Performance Related Support Tickets

• Word Processing: If you work with a large number of document ranges, you can now freeze these ranges to increase overall performance. If you utilize Syntax Highlighting, please consider using this new functionality. (T808295)
• Word Processing: Search performance has been improved for consecutive FindAll method calls. (T808292)
• Word Processing: Word Processing: We now use the <w:hyperlink> tag when saving documents with hyperlinks in the DOCX format. As such, hyperlinks behave correctly within SharePoint Word. (T806613)
• Spreadsheet: You can now export individual shapes to images. (T802444)
• PDF: We have improved our image caching engine and now allow you to process documents with large numbers of images more efficiently. (T807246)

Tips & Tricks

• Word Processing: How to store document images in a database and only retain image placeholders within a document. In this ticket, we discuss the pros and cons of different solutions to address this business requirement. (T800866)
• Spreadsheet: How to perform multi-level grouping within documents that contain a dynamic number of rows. (T804648)
• Spreadsheet Control: How to combine several document changes in a single Undo/Redo operation using our API. (T800928)
• PDF Document API: How to convert an arbitrary rectangular region of a PDF page to an image. (T805079)

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