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Connect AI to TX Text Control Content

April 17, 2026
New MCP Server gives AI assistants direct access to current documentation, API references, and related resources within development environments.

TX Text Control .NET is a royalty-free, fully programmable document editor that empowers developers to add rich WYSIWYG word processing to desktop and web applications across various platforms. It provides everything from comprehensive text formatting and mail merge to PDF creation and processing, all through a robust API and intuitive user interface.

The new Text Control MCP Server introduces a read-only Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint designed to integrate authoritative product knowledge into AI-assisted processes. By adding a single URL to an assistant’s configuration, developers can enable access to blog content, documentation, API references, and more, all without leaving the editor. This approach improves the relevance and accuracy of AI-generated responses, making it easier to work with up-to-date information across the entire Text Control ecosystem.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms and TX Text Control .NET for WPF are licensed per developer and are available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms licensing page or TX Text Control .NET for WPF licensing page for full details.

TX Text Control .NET is available to buy in the following products:

Connect Reports to Cloud Spreadsheet Data

April 16, 2026
FastReport .NET Ultimate can access live Google Sheets data directly within reports, enabling integration with cloud-hosted sources.

FastReport .NET Ultimate is a comprehensive reporting solution for developers working within the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. It supports the creation, design, and delivery of rich, interactive reports across Windows Forms, ASP.NET, MVC, and .NET Core applications. The Ultimate edition includes server deployment capabilities and extensive export options, such as PDF, Excel, Word, and HTML. It connects to various data sources, including SQL databases and business objects, providing flexibility for enterprise-level reporting. With the integrated FastReport Online Designer, users can edit reports directly in their browsers, enabling efficient collaboration and modern, full-featured report design across both desktop and web platforms.

The latest FastReport .NET Ultimate update introduces support for Google Sheets as a data source, allowing reports to connect directly to cloud-based spreadsheets. It enables developers and data professionals to work with up-to-date information without manual data transfers, making it easier to incorporate shared or frequently updated datasets into reports. It simplifies access to external data while maintaining the familiar reporting experience, making it particularly useful for teams already relying on Google Sheets for data management.

FastReport .NET Ultimate is licensed per named user and is available as a perpetual license with a one-year subscription for updates and support. See our FastReport .NET Ultimate licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our FastReport .NET Ultimate product page.

Analyze Market Data with Financial Charts

March 30, 2026
Visualize price movements and trends using specialized charts designed for accurate and intuitive financial analysis.

Financial charts are specialized visualizations designed to represent market data and price movements over time. Commonly used in trading platforms and analytical applications, these charts help users interpret open, high, low, and close values, as well as trends and volatility. By providing standardized financial visualizations, charting components enable developers to deliver tools that support technical analysis, decision-making, and real-time data exploration in finance-focused applications.

Common features include:

  • Box plots summarize data distribution by displaying quartiles and highlighting variability and outliers within a dataset.
  • Candlestick charts visualize price movements over time using bodies and wicks to represent open, close, high, and low values.
  • OHLC/HLOC charts present similar financial data in a bar-style format, making it easy to compare price ranges within a given period.
  • Point and Figure charts focus on price movements while filtering out time intervals, helping to identify trends and reversals more clearly.
  • Range charts display price changes based on predefined value ranges rather than time, emphasizing volatility and movement thresholds.
  • Spline charts provide smoothed line representations of financial data to highlight overall trends.
  • Step Line charts show discrete changes in price levels with clear transitions between values.
  • Indicators add analytical overlays such as moving averages or momentum calculations to support deeper technical analysis.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Blazor charts components comparison.

Explore Blazor Financial Charts

Explore Data with Multi-Level Drill Down Charts

March 12, 2026
FusionCharts Suite XT enables interactive drill down charts with clickable data points that reveal deeper insights and simplify complex datasets.

FusionCharts Suite XT is a collection of charting and mapping tools that helps developers create interactive and data-driven dashboards for their web and mobile applications. It provides a wide range of features, including over 100 chart types, data-driven maps, and a variety of customization options. FusionCharts Suite XT helps you visualize and present data in a clear and engaging way.

FusionCharts Suite XT allows developers to implement drill down charts that let users click individual data points to view related charts with more detailed information. This functionality helps developers present large or complex datasets in a structured way, allowing applications to display high level summaries while providing access to deeper data when required. By supporting multiple levels of drill down across most chart types, it supports scalable and interactive data exploration without overloading the initial visualization.

FusionCharts Suite XT is licensed through tiered plans, including Basic, Pro, Enterprise, and Enterprise+, available as annual or perpetual licenses for different developer and deployment needs. See our FusionCharts Suite XT licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our FusionCharts Suite product page.

Apply Consistent Report Styling Faster

March 12, 2026
Stimulsoft Ultimate improves report design with reusable styles that ensure consistent formatting and enable faster creation of reports.

Stimulsoft Ultimate is a reporting and dashboard solution that provides a set of tools for building interactive reports and data visualizations across platforms, including WinForms, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Blazor, JavaScript, WPF, PHP, Java, and Avalonia. It enables developers and organizations to design, generate, and deploy professional reports and dashboards using visual designers, flexible styling options, rich charting and data visualization components, and extensive data connectivity. With support for multiple development environments and technologies, Stimulsoft Ultimate helps teams improve report creation, maintain consistent designs, and deliver clear, data-driven insights for business intelligence, analytics, operational reporting, and enterprise applications.

Stimulsoft Ultimate enables developers to apply centralized report styling that ensures consistent formatting across report elements while reducing the time required to design and maintain reports. By using reusable styles for fonts, colors, borders, and other visual properties, developers can standardize report layouts, quickly apply formatting to multiple components, and implement global design changes without editing each element individually. This approach improves development efficiency, simplifies maintenance, and helps teams deliver professional, visually consistent reports across applications and platforms.

Stimulsoft Ultimate is licensed per developer with Single, Team, Enterprise, and WorldWide options that support one to unlimited developers within an organization. Licenses include a 12 month subscription with updates, priority technical support, a royalty free runtime report designer and viewer, and a build server license for Team and higher tiers. See our Stimulsoft Ultimate licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Stimulsoft Ultimate product page.