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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.

Enable On-Screen Signature Drawing in PDF Forms

March 3, 2026
ONLYOFFICE Docs v9.3 lets users add a personal touch by drawing their signature with a mouse or touch device directly within PDF forms.

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a comprehensive online editor, allowing users to create text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms. It enables your users to edit, share, and collaborate on documents online in their preferred browser, within your own application. It is fully compatible with OOXML (Office Open XML) formats and supports popular Microsoft Office and other document formats such as CSV, DOC, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TXT, XLS, and XLSX.

The ONLYOFFICE Docs v9.3 update includes an improved PDF Forms signature field which now allows users to draw their signature directly on screen using a mouse or touch-enabled device. This option provides a more personal and natural signing experience, particularly in scenarios where uploading an image or typing a name is not practical. By supporting freehand input within the form itself, it helps maintain document authenticity while keeping the signing process intuitive and accessible across devices.

To see a full list of what's new in v9.3, see our release notes.

ONLYOFFICE Docs Developer Edition is licensed by the number of simultaneous document connections and is available as an annual license with 1 year support and upgrades. See our ONLYOFFICE Docs Developer Edition licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our ONLYOFFICE Docs Developer Edition product page.

Celebrating 15 Year Partnership with DlhSoft

March 2, 2026
ComponentSource and DlhSoft have partnered for 15 years to deliver advanced scheduling and project management components to developers.

For 15 years, DlhSoft and ComponentSource have partnered to deliver powerful scheduling and project management solutions to developers around the globe. This long-standing collaboration has enabled ComponentSource to extend DlhSoft’s reach into international markets, ensuring customers can easily access robust, high-quality components backed by trusted distribution and service. Together, they have supported development teams building sophisticated business applications across a wide range of industries.

DlhSoft specializes in advanced Gantt chart and scheduling components for Microsoft platforms, providing developers with the tools needed to integrate rich project visualization and planning capabilities into their applications. A key product in this portfolio is DlhSoft Gantt Chart Library for WPF Standard Edition, which helps developers create powerful Gantt charts featuring customizable grid columns, summarized hierarchical data, draggable bars and dependency lines, copy-paste and undo-redo functionality, filtering and hierarchical sorting, and detailed item change events.

This 15-year partnership enhances ComponentSource’s ability to differentiate its product offering by including specialized, enterprise-ready scheduling components within its extensive catalog of developer tools. By delivering DlhSoft products worldwide through its established ecommerce infrastructure, multilingual support, and global marketing reach, ComponentSource ensures customers everywhere can confidently evaluate, purchase, and implement these solutions in their projects.

Learn more about DlhSoft.

Celebrating 25 Year Partnership with DevExpress

February 26, 2026
ComponentSource and DevExpress have worked together for 25 years to provide tools for building modern desktop, web, and mobile applications.

DevExpress and ComponentSource have worked together for 25 years, building a long-standing partnership focused on providing professional developer tools. DevExpress is known for its extensive range of UI controls, reporting tools, dashboards, and application frameworks across platforms including .NET, JavaScript, Blazor, WinForms, WPF, and ASP.NET. Together, the two companies support development teams creating desktop, web, and mobile applications.

At the center of this collaboration is DevExpress Universal, a flagship product available through ComponentSource, giving developers access to the full suite of DevExpress UI controls, reporting, and testing tools in a single subscription. This comprehensive offering helps teams standardize on one vendor while covering multiple platforms and project requirements.

This long-term partnership strengthens ComponentSource’s product portfolio by including one of the most widely used developer toolsets in the industry. It also enables ComponentSource to deliver DevExpress products to customers worldwide, supported by international sales teams, local currencies, and licensing expertise that simplify the purchasing process for organizations across different regions.

Learn more about DevExpress.

Bind Charts to JSON in Vue.js Applications

February 23, 2026
Use JSON as a data source to connect structured data to chart components in Vue.js, reducing data transformation and simplifying API integration.

Using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) as a data source for charts allows applications to bind structured, lightweight data directly to visualization components. JSON represents data as objects and arrays, making it well suited to defining categories, series, and individual data points in a format that aligns naturally with modern web development practices. Its widespread use in RESTful APIs and web services enables charts to consume live or remote datasets efficiently, while reducing the need for complex data transformation before rendering.

Several Vue.js chart components allow you to use JSON as a data source, including:

  • DevExtreme Vue Chart (part of DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress) accepts JSON via its dataSource, enabling binding to local or remote data with series and argument mapping.
  • Highcharts Core by Highsoft uses JSON-based arrays and configuration objects to populate series and categories, either directly or via asynchronous loading.
  • Kendo UI Vue Charts (part of Kendo UI by Telerik) bind to object arrays, typically sourced from JSON, with property mapping to series and axes.
  • FusionCharts Suite XT natively supports JSON, allowing full chart configuration and datasets to be defined and passed directly to the chart engine.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Vue.js charting components.

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