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Optimize Screen Space with Dockable Toolbars

Maggio 22, 2025
Actipro WPF Bars v25.1 adds Visual Studio–style dockable toolbars with multi-line stacking, floating capability and toggleable visibility.

Actipro Bars for WPF is a UI component library that equips developers with the tools to build advanced ribbons, toolbars, and menus within their WPF applications. It offers an "Office-like" ribbon experience with customization options, supports MVVM design patterns, and includes a rich set of controls specifically designed for use within these elements, allowing for a cohesive and user-friendly interface.

The Actipro Bars for WPF v25.1 update introduces Visual Studio-style dockable toolbars that can be positioned on any edge of a host control or detached and moved to secondary monitors. This provides a highly adaptable workspace layout that users can configure to fit their preferences. Developers gain fine control over docking behavior, floating, stacking, and visibility settings through exposed properties, allowing for a dynamic and customizable interface without requiring complex custom coding.

To see a full list of what's new in v25.1, see our release notes.

Actipro Bars for WPF is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Actipro Bars for WPF licensing page for full details.

Actipro Bars for WPF is available in the following products:

Extend PDF Capabilities in .NET 9 Apps

Maggio 22, 2025
PDF Xpansion SDK 17.1.3 unlocks advanced PDF processing in modern apps by utilizing the performance enhancements of .NET 9.

The PDF Xpansion SDK from Soft Xpansion is a powerful development toolkit for integrating advanced PDF and electronic document processing into desktop, server, and mobile applications. It supports creating, editing, converting, displaying, and printing PDF files, along with handling related formats like XPS and OpenXPS. The SDK complies with ISO PDF standards and offers robust features for digital signatures, form processing, text extraction, and document security. It also includes specialized capabilities for e-invoicing, supporting formats such as ZUGFeRD and Factur-X, and provides PDF viewer functionality for seamless document display. This makes it an ideal solution for automating document workflows and ensuring regulatory compliance in enterprise environments.

The PDF Xpansion SDK 17.1.3 update introduces official support for both .NET 8 and the latest .NET 9, enabling developers to integrate advanced PDF functionality into modern applications while taking full advantage of the newest runtime optimizations and language enhancements. This ensures higher performance, improved scalability, and stronger security for document processing solutions. With support for .NET 9, development teams can leverage cutting-edge features such as improved Just-In-Time (JIT) and native Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation, resulting in faster application startup times and reduced memory consumption. This update helps future-proof projects and supports the latest trends in application development.

PDF Xpansion SDK products are licensed per company location where developers use the SDKs. Optional Add-Ons are available which require ownership of SDK site licenses. Maintenance Subscription is available providing product updates (error corrections) and support services. See the product license pages for full details:

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Condividi i report istantaneamente con l'esportazione in immagini

Maggio 15, 2025
L'esportazione delle immagini consente agli utenti di condividere gli snapshot dei report, preservando la formattazione per una comunicazione visiva chiara e immediata.

The export to image feature in reporting tools allows users to save a static visual representation of their reports in common image formats such as PNG or JPEG. This functionality offers numerous benefits, including simplified sharing across diverse platforms without requiring specific software, ensuring the consistent presentation of data by preserving formatting and visualizations, and enabling offline access for users who may not have continuous network connectivity. Example use cases include easily embedding key performance indicator dashboards into presentations or emails for broad dissemination, archiving reports for historical record-keeping, and providing accessible versions of data insights for individuals who prefer or require visual formats.

Several .NET WPF reporting controls offer image exporting including:

  • MindFusion.Reporting for WPF facilitates saving report layouts and data visualizations as universally viewable image files for easy sharing and embedding in various documents.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.Wpf enables users to export their interactive WPF reports to static image formats, ensuring consistent visual representation across different platforms.
  • ComponentOne FlexReport WPF (part of ComponentOne Studio WPF by MESCIUS) allows you to generate image renditions of complex reports, simplifying distribution.
  • DevExpress Reports (Multi-Platform) (part of DevExpress Reporting) lets developers export visually rich reports to various image formats.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our WPF Reporting controls comparison.

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Ottimizza l'interfaccia utente delle applicazioni WPF

Maggio 9, 2025
Le barre degli strumenti centralizzano i comandi essenziali in una striscia compatta e personalizzabile, migliorando la produttività e creando un'esperienza utente più intuitiva.

A toolbar user interface component is a horizontal or vertical strip that contains a set of buttons, icons, dropdowns or menus designed to provide quick access to commonly used functions within a software application. These customizable toolbars streamline user interactions by grouping related tools in a consistent and easily accessible location, often near the top or side of the interface. Toolbars enhance productivity by minimizing the number of steps required to perform frequent tasks, improving efficiency, and reducing the need to navigate through deeper menu hierarchies. Such a component also contributes to a cleaner and more organized interface, helping users perform actions more intuitively and with fewer interruptions.

Several WPF user interface suites provide you with toolbars, including:

  • DevExpress WPF enables developers to build flexible, dockable toolbars that support runtime customization and command binding for dynamic user experiences.
  • ComponentOne Studio WPF by MESCIUS allows the design of tabbed and grouped toolbars with support for ribbon-style interfaces, making it easier to organize sets of commands.
  • Telerik UI for WPF provides a toolbar control featuring automatic overflow handling and a tray system, ensuring responsive layouts and customizable tool arrangements.
  • Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise offers customizable toolbars, and allows WPF developers to combine various UI elements and tools to create task-focused interfaces.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of WPF user interface suites.

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Visualizza i dati del foglio di calcolo in tre dimensioni

Maggio 2, 2025
Spread.NET v18.1 aggiunge un nuovo grafico a superficie WPF che trasforma i dati complessi dei fogli di calcolo in superfici 3D interattive.

Spread.NET by MESCIUS is a powerful tool for building Excel-like applications in your .NET projects. It lets you create interactive spreadsheets, grids, dashboards, and even forms within WinForms, ASP.NET, and WPF applications. With its rich feature set, including a robust calculation engine, formula support, and Excel compatibility, Spread.NET empowers developers to build data analysis tools, budgeting apps, scientific dashboards, and more, all within the familiar .NET environment.

The Spread.NET v18.1 update introduces a new surface chart feature for WPF, providing developers with the capability to render spreadsheet data on a three-dimensional plane. By offering this advanced charting functionality, developers can create more sophisticated data visualization solutions within their WPF applications, allowing end-users to gain deeper insights into complex data and identify key correlations that may not be evident in two-dimensional representations. This feature expands the analytical tools available within Spread.NET, allowing for more nuanced and comprehensive data exploration.

To see a full list of what's new in v18.1, see our release notes.

Spread.NET is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. We can supply any Spread.NET license including new licenses, maintenance renewals, and upgrade licenses. See our Spread.NET licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Spread.NET product page.