Noticias sobre .NET

Habilite anotación de PDF en aplicaciones WinForms

Diciembre 19, 2025
Los visores de PDF con herramientas de anotación integradas permiten a los usuarios revisar, comentar y colaborar en documentos sin modificar el contenido original.

PDF annotation in .NET WinForms PDF viewer components refers to the ability to add visual and textual markup directly onto PDF documents without altering the original content. These tools allow users to draw shapes, highlight text, insert comments, and place notes within the viewing interface, supporting workflows such as document review, feedback, and approval. This functionality improves collaboration and clarity in document handling, making it well-suited for document processing tasks in WinForms applications.

Common features include:

  • Freehand Draw (Ink Annotation) allows users to sketch, underline, or handwrite directly on the page using a mouse, stylus, or touch input, making it ideal for markups and signatures.
  • Lines provide a simple way to connect points or emphasize linear elements within a document, often with configurable thickness, color, and opacity.
  • Rectangles enable users to highlight or frame areas of interest, supporting both outlined and filled styles for visual emphasis.
  • Ellipses offer a similar highlighting function to rectangles but with a rounded shape, useful for circling content or marking irregular regions.
  • Arrows are commonly used to direct attention to specific content, combining line styling with arrowheads to clearly indicate focus or flow.
  • Sticky Note annotations allow users to attach comments to precise locations in the document, typically displayed as icons that reveal text on interaction.
  • Free Text enables direct placement of typed text onto the page with control over font, size, color, and alignment, supporting clear, visible commentary without pop-ups.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our WinForms PDF viewer components comparison.

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Añada formato basado en reglas a cuadrículas de datos

Diciembre 19, 2025
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v2 mejora FlexGrid for WinUI con formato condicional, validación, barras de datos y ajuste de texto.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of .NET UI controls developed by MESCIUS (formerly GrapeCity) designed for building rich, interactive desktop, web, and mobile applications. It provides developers with a broad range of tools and components-including data grids, charts, reports, input controls, and advanced data visualization features-for platforms such as WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, WinUI, and .NET MAUI. The suite emphasizes performance, flexibility, and ease of integration, helping teams create consistent, feature-rich user experiences across multiple application types while maintaining a unified development approach.

The ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v2 update adds a conditional formatting rules engine to FlexGrid for WinUI. This enables validation-driven formatting and data bars, allowing developers to highlight invalid values, enforce input consistency, and make comparisons directly within the grid. The update also introduces word-wrapped column headers, improving readability for longer labels and supporting more compact, maintainable layouts.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 v2, see our release notes.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is licensed per developer on a perpetual basis and includes a 12 month subscription. Priority Support is also available. See our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise product page.

Edite imágenes de forma fácil y directa en aplicaciones de datos WPF

Diciembre 19, 2025
Habilite la edición de imágenes en aplicaciones para WPF, con anotación, recorte, transformaciones, ampliación, deshacer y rehacer, además de importación y exportación sencillas.

Image editing in a data editor component helps users work with images alongside other data fields. This includes basic functions like cropping, rotating, resizing, and adding annotations. It's useful for tasks such as cleaning up user-uploaded files, adjusting product photos, or marking up visual references—all without switching to another application. This keeps image handling part of the same process as your data updates.

Several .NET data editor collections provide an image editor, including:

  • DevExpress WPF Data Editors (part of DevExpress WPF) lets you embed image editing within forms, enabling cropping, annotation and validation.
  • Telerik UI for WPF Data Editors (part of Telerik UI for WPF) allows you to integrate image modification tools into business apps, supporting annotations and transformations.
  • Syncfusion WPF Data Editors (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) facilitates image editing in data driven interfaces, enabling adjustments and visual annotations.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET data editors comparison.

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Celebramos 15 años de colaboración con combit

Diciembre 15, 2025
ComponentSource y combit colaboran desde hace 15 años para permitir a los desarrolladores ofrecer aplicaciones basadas en datos con herramientas de informes de confianza.

ComponentSource and combit have partnered for 15 years, providing developers worldwide with powerful reporting, reporting designers, and data visualization tools to build professional, data-driven applications.

combit is a leading provider of reporting components for software developers, best known for List & Label – a multiple award-winning reporting tool used by development teams around the globe. Their components make it easier to design and integrate customized reports, dashboards, lists, and labels into business applications. Through ComponentSource, customers can conveniently license, and maintain these combit products, confident they’re choosing proven technology backed by professional support and ongoing innovation.

Together, ComponentSource and combit help development teams deliver applications faster, with flexible licensing options, reliable updates, and expert assistance. As demand for advanced reporting and analytics continues to grow, this long-standing collaboration ensures customers can rely on a trusted combination of combit’s technology and ComponentSource’s global distribution and customer service for many years to come.

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Visualice datos 3D con gráficos de contornos 2D para WPF

Diciembre 12, 2025
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v2 mejora sus aplicaciones WPF con capacidades de mapeo de contornos y visualización de gradientes de alto rendimiento.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of .NET UI controls developed by MESCIUS (formerly GrapeCity) designed for building rich, interactive desktop, web, and mobile applications. It provides developers with a broad range of tools and components-including data grids, charts, reports, input controls, and advanced data visualization features-for platforms such as WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, WinUI, and .NET MAUI. The suite emphasizes performance, flexibility, and ease of integration, helping teams create consistent, feature-rich user experiences across multiple application types while maintaining a unified development approach.

The ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v2 update introduces 2D Contour Charts in FlexChart for WPF, allowing developers to represent three-dimensional data on a two-dimensional surface through contour lines or shaded bands that highlight areas of equal value. This capability delivers a clear visual understanding of gradients, surface characteristics, and other continuous data patterns. With support for multiple contour types, customizable contour levels, and flexible gradient color palettes, developers gain precise control over how value transitions are presented. These enhancements make the WPF contour chart well suited for scientific and engineering analysis, elevation and surface mapping, and any application that requires accurate comparison of value distribution across two variables.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 v2, see our release notes.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is licensed per developer on a perpetual basis and includes a 12 month subscription. Priority Support is also available. See our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ComponentOne Studio Enterprise product page.