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Enhance Sharing Efficiency with SVG Chart Export

April 22, 2024
The Scalable Vector Graphics format provides a flexible way to share charts that scale without quality loss and offer significantly smaller file sizes.

SVG export gives your users the ability to output charts in the Scalable Vector Graphics format. This offers superior quality for both print and web displays, ensuring that your charts remain crisp and detailed at any zoom level. This feature is particularly beneficial for professionals who require high-resolution graphics for presentations, reports, or publications. The SVG format also allows for easy editing and resizing without loss of quality, making it ideal for use across various media. Users can effortlessly integrate their analytical outputs into dynamically scalable projects and retain the aesthetic integrity of their visual data, streamlining the process from data exploration to communication.

Several WinForms chart controls offer SVG export including:

  • DevExpress WinForms Chart (part of DevExpress WinForms) lets users export charts as SVGs for infinite scalability and customization within reports and presentations.
  • ComponentOne Charts for WinForms (part of ComponentOne Studio WinForms by MESCIUS) offers SVG export for high-resolution, vector-based charts for various outputs.
  • ChartDirector for .NET by Advanced Software Engineering facilitates the export of charts in SVG format, ensuring crisp visuals and lossless editing potential for developers.
  • Nevron Chart for WinForms provides SVG exports, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate charts into reports and presentations with flexible resizing capabilities.
  • ProEssentials by GigaSoft equips developers with SVG export for charts, guaranteeing vector-based scalability and customization freedom for versatile use cases.

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

Compare WinForms Chart Controls

Refine Control Over Your Table of Contents

April 22, 2024
Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms 2024 Volume 1 lets you incorporate captions from figures and tables into a Word document's TOC.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms is a powerful UI component suite designed to enhance your WinForms development. It boasts over 100 high-performance controls, ranging from essential grids and charts to advanced schedulers and diagrams, enabling you to craft visually appealing and feature-rich applications with ease. Its extensive customization options and built-in themes allow for tailored user experiences, while touch-friendly design ensures seamless interaction across devices.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms 2024 Volume 1 (25.1.35) enhances Word document table of contents (TOC) generation by introducing support for the \c and \a switches. The \c switch integrates captions of figures, tables, charts, and other SEQ field-numbered items into TOC entries, while the \a switch constructs a separate table of captions excluding labels and numbers. This empowers you to customize your TOC to effectively cater to the specific requirements of your document and target audience.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2024 Volume 1 (25.1.35), see our release notes.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms is available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise which is licensed per developer starting with a Team License of up to five developers. It is available as a 12 Month Timed Subscription License which includes support and maintenance. See our Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms product page.

Develop Modern WinForms Applications Using .NET 8

April 19, 2024
Bunifu UI WinForms v7.0 streamlines professional WinForms UI development with the addition of Microsoft .NET 8 support.

Bunifu UI WinForms is a user interface (UI) framework designed to streamline the development of modern and visually appealing desktop applications using Microsoft's WinForms platform. It provides a wide array of pre-built, customizable UI components, such as charts, a data grid, gradient panel, and slider, that emphasize a minimalist aesthetic while maintaining performance efficiency. With it developers can significantly streamline the UI development process, allowing them to drag-and-drop elements and leverage extensive design properties to create professional-looking applications in less time.

Bunifu UI WinForms v7.0 embraces the future of .NET development by adding support for Microsoft .NET 8. This unlocks a range of productivity and performance enhancements for developers, alongside an improved overall experience. By seamlessly integrating with modern software architectures and .NET components, Bunifu UI WinForms empowers you to craft responsive and visually stunning applications with greater ease.

To see a full list of what's new in v7.0.0, see our release notes.

Bunifu UI WinForms is licensed per developer and is available in four plans; three plans are an annual license while the other is a perpetual license. Annual licenses come with free updates and Premium support for the active license period. See our Bunifu UI WinForms licensing page for full details.

Bunifu UI WinForms is available in the following products:

Extract Pages from a PDF File in your WPF App

April 19, 2024
Choose a PDF Viewer component that lets you extract pages by range or individual selection for maximum flexibility.

Extracting pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file allows users to select specific pages or ranges within the viewer and create a new PDF containing only those selections. This feature is valuable for creating targeted excerpts from a larger document for sharing or further editing. The resulting PDF maintains the original formatting, images, and text of the selected pages, ensuring that the integrity of the extracted content is preserved.

Several .NET WPF PDF viewer components allow you to extract a page from a PDF, including:

  • Telerik UI PDF for WPF (part of Telerik UI for WPF) allows you to view and extract specific pages within your WPF app, enhancing its document processing capabilities.
  • Syncfusion WPF PDF (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) includes a PDF viewer that supports efficient page extraction, streamlining the process within WPF frameworks for user convenience.
  • ComPDFKit PDF SDK for Windows integrates PDF viewing and page extraction functionality into WPF apps, allowing you to extract pages or page ranges from documents and save them as a new PDF document.
  • XFINIUM.PDF WPF/UWP EDITION provides WPF controls for cross-platform PDF development, it features an integrated PDF viewer that facilitates the easy extraction of specific pages.

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

Compare .NET WPF PDF Viewer Components

Rapidly Create Excel Spreadsheets with Templates

April 19, 2024
Document Solutions for Excel v7.1 features refactored DsExcel templates to improve performance, stability, and handle a wider range of user needs.

Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition (DsExcel) is a high-performance spreadsheet API library that enables .NET developers to create, manipulate, and generate Excel documents within their applications entirely independent of Microsoft Excel. DsExcel boasts a fast and lightweight design and features cross-platform and cross-framework compatibility. It includes a powerful calculation engine that handles over 450 Excel functions and allows for the creation of custom functions for complex calculations.

The Document Solutions for Excel v7.1 update includes enhancements to DsExcel templates which prioritize performance and stability to cater to a broader range of use cases. This includes improved handling of missing data sources, new OverwriteFillFormat functionality to operate in both Pagination and non-Pagination modes, expanded support for image and shape elements, optimized processing for merged cells, and backwards compatibility with older templates to ensure a smooth transition for existing users.

To see a full list of what's new in v7.1.0, see our release notes.

Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition is licensed per developer and is available in several license options for differing distribution needs. Team licenses are also available for multiple developers within the same organization. See our Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition product page.