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Fine-tune AI Code Suggestions

August 15, 2024
JetBrains AI Assistant 2024.2 adds the ability to accept code suggestions incrementally, either word by word or line by line.

JetBrains AI Assistant is a plugin for their IDEs that uses large language models to enhance your coding experience. It can answer your questions about code, suggest completions and refactorings, and even help you write documentation and commit messages. It analyzes the context of your project to provide the most relevant suggestions, and you can chat with it directly within the IDE. It's a powerful tool for programmers looking to boost their productivity.

The JetBrains AI Assistant 2024.2 update has been enhanced with incremental acceptance of code suggestions, providing a more granular control over the code generation process. Multiline code suggestions are now presented in stages, with each single-line suggestion requiring explicit acceptance before the next line is displayed. This approach empowers users to carefully review and approve code changes step-by-step.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2024.2 see our release notes.

JetBrains AI Assistant requires that you already own a JetBrains IDE product with an active commercial subscription license and is licensed per user as a commercial annual subscription. We can supply new subscriptions, subscription renewals, lapsed subscription renewals, and additional developer licenses. See our JetBrains AI Assistant licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our JetBrains AI Assistant product page.

Convert DOCX Documents to PDF in .NET C#

August 15, 2024
Leverage the powerful TX Text Control API for efficient programmatic conversion of Microsoft Word documents into PDF format.

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET is a server-side component that equips developers with a powerful word processing engine for web applications. It integrates seamlessly with ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, popular frameworks like Angular and React, and JavaScript, allowing you to build dynamic document editing and generation features directly within your web applications. This empowers you to create documents on the fly using data from various sources, edit existing documents in the browser, and handle functionalities like PDF processing and form filling, all on the server-side.

Converting Microsoft Word documents to PDF is a common requirement across a wide range of applications. From dynamic document generation through mail merges with data sources like JSON to create invoices and other deliverables, the final output often requires PDF conversion for distribution. Additionally, PDF/A, an ISO standard, is essential for the secure, long-term archiving of documents. In this blog post, Text Control's Bjoern Meyer shows you how to convert a DOCX file to PDF using TX Text Control in a .NET 8 console application. Steps include:

  • Preparing the application
  • Converting a DOCX file to PDF
  • Applying PDF settings
  • Adding Digital Signatures
  • Creating the PDF/A file

Read the complete blog now and learn how to accomplish this very common task quickly and easily using TX Text Control.

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET is licensed per Developer and includes Run-time licensing for up to 5 Servers. Licensing is perpetual, and include a 1-year subscription. See our TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET licensing page for more details.

Learn more about TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET.

Protect Your Data from Unauthorized Access

August 14, 2024
Cryptography and encryption allow you to convert your data into a secure format, protecting its confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity.

Cryptography and encryption are fundamental to secure internet communications. These techniques transform data into an unreadable format, safeguarding sensitive information from unauthorized access. By employing robust algorithms and cryptographic keys, communications components protect data transmission and storage. This ensures confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity, preventing data breaches, eavesdropping, and tampering. Cryptography's benefits are paramount in protecting personal information, financial transactions, and sensitive business data, fostering trust and security in the digital realm.

Several .NET 8 communications and messaging components offer cryptography/encryption support including:

  • IPWorks SFTP .NET Edition by /n software facilitates secure file transfers using robust SSH-2 encryption and authentication mechanisms.
  • Rebex SFTP allows developers to implement secure file transfer protocols with support for various encryption algorithms and key exchange methods.
  • SocketTools .NET Edition by Catalyst Development Corporation simplifies secure data transfer with AES-256 encryption, ensuring data confidentiality throughout transmission.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET 8 communications and messaging components comparison.

Compare .NET 8 Comms & Messaging

Simplify Chart Creation in React Applications

August 14, 2024
KendoReact v8.2.0 (2024 Q3) adds a chart wizard component, reducing the complexity of chart creation in React apps and saving development time.

KendoReact by Telerik is a professional UI kit of more than 120 responsive and customizable native UI and data visualization components for React developers. Designed to save time building powerful high performance React applications, it helps ensure a modern, consistent look-and-feel across your application's user interface.

KendoReact v8.2.0, part of the 2024 Q3 release, adds a new chart wizard component, enhancing the developer experience by streamlining the chart creation process. This component provides a simple and intuitive interface that enables React developers to quickly create charts from a data-bound component or an external source. It guides you through a chart's configuration, allowing you to set up the chart type, title, series, legend, area, value axis, category axis and data source. This reduces the potential for errors in the chart setup whilst saving development time by reducing the complexity of building interactive data visualizations within React apps.

To see a full list of what’s new in 2024 Q3 (v8.2.0), see our release notes.

KendoReact is licensed per developer and is available as a perpetual license with a 1 year support subscription, which is available in 3 tiers: Lite, Priority or Ultimate. See our KendoReact licensing page for full details.

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Easily Design Flowcharts in JavaScript Applications

August 14, 2024
FlowChart JS facilitates the creation of interactive and customizable flowcharts to effortlessly visualize complex processes and systems.

FlowChart JS, a powerful new JavaScript library from BALKAN App, the creators of OrgChart JS, is designed to streamline the creation of interactive and customizable flowcharts. It seamlessly integrates with React, Angular, and Vue.js, offering an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and real-time visual editing, making it easy to visualize complex processes and systems. The library provides a rich set of pre-built shapes and nodes, with the flexibility to create custom shapes, advanced connection and routing options, and a robust API. Its seamless integration into existing applications simplifies the development of clear, structured visualizations.

This new product streamlines the flowchart creation process and enhances visual communication, enabling users to quickly assemble intricate diagrams without extensive coding knowledge. The library's flexibility makes it suitable for a wide range of use cases including business process modeling, software development, educational materials, and technical documentation. By transforming complex information into visually appealing and understandable diagrams, FlowChart JS improves collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving, providing JavaScript applications with powerful data visualization capabilities.

FlowChart JS is licensed on a perpetual basis with 1 year support and maintenance. Single website, unlimited websites or SaaS, and OEM licenses are available. See our FlowChart JS licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our FlowChart JS product page.