.NET 8 WinForms News

Add Secure PDF Signing to .NET 8 WinForms Apps

February 1, 2024
Choose a component with PDF signing support to ensure tamper-proof documents, streamline workflows, and boost recipient trust.

PDF components with PDF signing functionality allow users to securely sign documents directly within your application. This leverages cryptographic libraries to create a digital signature that validates the document's authenticity and integrity. Users can often specify the signing location, reason, and appearance, ensuring a streamlined and auditable signing process. This elevates security beyond a simple e-signature, offering proof against tampering, and is a crucial feature for legal and official documents where verification of authenticity is required.

The following components support PDF signing in .NET 8 WinForms:

  • ComponentOne Studio WinForms PDF (part of ComponentOne Studio WinForms) by MESCIUS enables you to add secure and legally binding electronic signatures to your PDF documents directly within your WinForms applications.
  • Telerik UI PDF for WinForms (part of Telerik UI for WinForms) streamlines the process of adding legally binding electronic signatures to your PDF documents within your Windows Forms applications.
  • Syncfusion Windows Forms PDF (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) offers a comprehensive set of features and a developer-friendly API for streamlining PDF signing workflows within your Windows Forms applications.
  • XFINIUM.PDF CROSS PLATFORM EDITION (part of XFINIUM.PDF CROSS-PLATFORM BUNDLE) provides a seamless and secure PDF signing experience across different platforms, ensuring compatibility for all users.

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

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Unlock Data Insights with Drill Down Reporting

January 31, 2024
WinForms reporting components with drill-down support empower users to navigate summarized data, uncover details, and gain actionable insights.

Report drill down functionality allows users to explore deeper into summary data and discover detailed information. For a report showing sales by product category, visitors could click on a category to view a breakdown of individual products, and then drill down even further, by brand or model. This interactive capability promotes a greater understanding and discovery of trends within the report. The intuitive data navigation allows users to peel back layers of data to uncover trends, anomalies, and patterns that may not be obvious in summarized representations. Drilling down into data helps consumers make better decisions by giving them the precise insights they need to back up their conclusions.

Several .NET 8 WinForms Reporting components support drill down functionality, including:

  • DevExpress Reports lets you zoom in on data summaries for granular insights. Drill down from regional sales to city-level performance, then explore specific products.
  • List and Label Enterprise Reporting Edition by combit empowers you to navigate summarized data and gain deeper understanding. Explore sales by product category, then drill down to individual products and identify top sellers.
  • Telerik Reporting facilitates interactive exploration of summarized data. Visualize sales by country, then drill down to analyze regional trends and identify top-performing locations.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET 8 WinForms Reporting Controls comparison.

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.NET 8 Thrives with Growing Enterprise Adoption

January 30, 2024
Empower your development with our comprehensive range of commercial .NET 8 compatible components.

The .NET framework has become a cornerstone of the modern software ecosystem, as it provides a robust and versatile platform for developing a multitude of applications. With every new iteration, .NET brings a range of enhancements, making its adoption increasingly appealing to developers worldwide.

Launched in November 2023, .NET 8 includes a plethora of new features designed to streamline the development process and elevate the integrity of applications. This major release represents a significant step forward, embracing modern development paradigms and equipping software engineers with cutting-edge tools. From the adoption of more efficient methodologies like minimal APIs and Blazor, to profound under-the-hood changes, .NET 8 caters to the current and future needs of developers.

At ComponentSource, we've seen a surge in .NET 8 adoption, with numerous publishers updating their products to ensure compatibility with the new framework, including DevExpress, MESCIUS, Text Control, /n software, Aspose, and Telerik. We've added .NET 8 comparisons for many of our most popular categories, so you can easily compare products that support the latest release. See our Product Comparison page for more information.

The rapid adoption of .NET 8 is a testament to its innovative features and performance improvements. As more developers embrace this powerful framework, the demand for compatible components and libraries is surging. At ComponentSource, we're committed to providing you with the widest selection of .NET 8-ready solutions to fuel your development projects. Explore our extensive catalog of .NET compatible products today and discover the perfect tools to empower your applications.

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Edit Filters at Runtime in a WinForms DataGrid

January 30, 2024
Filter on the fly with context menu access and view summaries at a glance in the grid footer with ComponentOne FlexGrid for WinForms.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise is a comprehensive toolkit designed to streamline and accelerate .NET development across mobile, web, and desktop applications. It offers a vast library of performant and customizable UI controls, including data grids, charts, reporting tools, and input components, compatible with various platforms like WinForms, WPF, Blazor, ASP.NET MVC, and Xamarin. By leveraging pre-built components and functionalities, developers can save time and resources, focusing on core business logic and delivering high-quality applications faster. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes the FlexGrid for WinForms grid component.

In this blog post, MESCIUS Technical Engagement Engineer Hunter Haaf demonstrates how to integrate the FilterEditor with FlexGrid. Steps include:

  • Adding FlexGrid and FilterEditor controls to the form
  • Editing the filter with a Form Button
  • Editing the filter with the Context Menu
  • Filter Summary Footer, Checkbox Filtering, and more.

Source code examples are included with each step.

Read the full blog post and add powerful runtime filtering to your FlexGrid data.

Add Word Processing to .NET 8 WinForms / WPF Apps

January 24, 2024
TX Text Control for Windows Forms and WPF unlock modern app development with powerful document editing for .NET 8.

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 TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms and WPF Version 32.0 Service Pack 2 adds support for .NET 8, allowing developers to build word processing applications with the new version of Microsoft's popular framework. Text Control's benchmark tests demonstrate .NET 8's clear advantage over .NET 6 in terms of resource utilization and document processing speed.

To see a full list of what's new in version 32.0 Service Pack 2, see our release notes:

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. Subscription renewals are also available. See our TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms licensing page or TX Text Control .NET for WPF licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our product pages: