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Celebrating 15 Year Partnership with combit

December 15, 2025
ComponentSource and combit have partnered for 15 years, empowering developers to deliver data-driven applications with trusted reporting tools.

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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Visualize 3D Data with 2D Contour Charts for WPF

December 12, 2025
ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2025 v2 elevates your WPF apps with high-performance contour mapping and gradient visualization capabilities.

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.

Accelerate Development with .NET 10 Support

December 11, 2025
ASP.NET Zero v15.0.0 adds full .NET 10 compatibility, for faster execution, improved memory efficiency, and access to the latest C# capabilities.

ASP.NET Zero is a comprehensive starting point for building new web applications, providing a modern UI, SOLID-based architecture, and implementations of common line-of-business requirements so developers can focus on business logic while working directly with full source code. It offers multiple architectural options, including ASP.NET Core MVC and ASP.NET Core with Angular, and includes ASP.NET Zero Power Tools, a Visual Studio extension and CLI utility that improves development by generating entities and their full application layers from the database to the user interface.

The ASP.NET Zero v15.0.0 release now fully supports .NET 10, delivering improved performance, greater runtime stability, and access to the latest .NET and C# features, ensuring long-term compatibility while providing developers with a faster, more memory-efficient, and better-tooled backend environment.

To see a full list of what's new in v15.0.0, see our release notes.

ASP.NET Zero is licensed based on the number of developers using the framework and the number of products being developed. See our ASP.NET Zero licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our ASP.NET Zero product page.

Optimize Report Inputs with Purpose-Built Dialogs

December 11, 2025
Create cleaner, more consistent reports with dialog parameter forms, ensuring accurate, validated inputs for filters, groupings, and calculations.

Dialog forms for parameters in reporting provide a structured and user friendly way to collect the inputs needed for accurate, relevant reports. Instead of relying on manual entry or remembered criteria, users are guided through fields that ensure consistent and valid information. This improves report quality and reduces errors in scenarios such as choosing date ranges, product categories, regions, or departments. By centralizing parameter entry in a clean interface, dialog forms let users focus on interpreting results rather than managing input details.

Several .NET WinForms reporting components allow you to create dialog forms for parameters, including:

  • DevExpress Reporting lets you create guided parameter dialogs that collect accurate user inputs, improving report precision, usability, and efficiency across applications.
  • Telerik Reporting allows you to build intuitive parameter dialogs that improve data selection, ensuring users generate consistent, reliable reports with minimal effort.
  • FastReport .NET WinForms facilitates customizable parameter dialogs that validate user input, enhancing report accuracy and simplifying complex filtering and configuration tasks.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.NET enables structured parameter dialog creation that helps users supply correct reporting criteria, delivering clearer insights and more dependable results.

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

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Add Navigation to PDFs with Bookmarks

December 10, 2025
.NET PDF components with bookmark navigation let users quickly jump to specific content in complex, multi-page documents.

Bookmark navigation in a .NET PDF control allows users to access and move through predefined sections within a PDF document using a hierarchical list of bookmarks. While commonly used for chapters, bookmarks can also point to tables, figures, appendices, or any specific content, enabling flexible navigation across various elements of a document. Developers can create bookmarks dynamically based on document structure, metadata, or application logic, making it easier to guide users through complex content or highlight specific areas of interest.

Several .NET PDF components offer bookmark navigation including:

  • DevExpress PDF Document API for .NET (part of DevExpress Office File API) allows developers to programmatically add, edit, and remove bookmarks in PDFs.
  • Document Solutions for PDF by MESCIUS enables .NET apps to manage bookmarks so users can jump directly to pages, sections, or content elements in complex PDFs.
  • Aspose.PDF for .NET allows insertion and manipulation of PDF bookmarks so users can navigate to sections, headings, or customized targets efficiently.
  • Telerik UI for WPF PdfProcessing (part of Telerik UI for WPF) supports bookmarks in PDF documents, enabling hierarchical navigation inside .NET applications.

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

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