NOV Rich Text Editor for .NET Releases

Released: Dec 11, 2025

Updates in 2025.2

Features

Framework Improvements

  • SVG Images:
    • Improved import of linear gradients.

Released: May 20, 2025

Updates in 2025.1

Features

  • Added Support for .NET 9.0:
    • NOV now has a native build for .NET 9.0, in addition to the existing support for .NET Framework 4.7.2+ and .NET 8.0.
  • Text Frames:
    • Added support for importing and exporting text frames in both RTF and DOCX formats.
  • Controllable Measurement Units:
    • DIP property editors now use a unit system based on the application's current culture. This allows for easy switching between imperial (inches, DIP) and metric (cm, mm) units, enhancing the control's localization...

Released: Jun 5, 2024

Updates in 2024.1

Features

  • Added support for Microsoft .NET 8.0 - NOV now has a native build for .NET 8.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2+, NET 6.0, and .NET 7.0. NOV Mac projects have been migrated from Xamarin.Mac to .NET 8.0 and can be used with the following IDEs on Mac:
    • Visual Studio Code with the C# DevKit plugin.
    • JetBrains Rider.
  • Added a new slimmed down version of the control called NSimpleRichTextView, which mimics the WordPad functionality (does not allow the user to import...

Released: May 16, 2023

Updates in 2023.1

Features

  • Added support for Microsoft .NET 7.0 - NOV now fully supports .NET Core 7.0, in addition to the supported builds for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2+, .NET Core 5.0 and .NET Core 6.0.
  • Added support for reading and exporting text documents with bookmarks in DOCX, HTML, and RTF text formats.

Released: Oct 10, 2022

Updates in 2022.3

Features

General Improvements

  • Added support for Microsoft .NET Core 6.0 - NOV now has a native build for .NET Core 6.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET Core 5.0.
  • Added support for NuGet packages - NOV has extended support for NuGet based deployment, with added NuGet packages for every major component in the suite, as well as for the entire suite.
  • NOV Examples for VB.NET - Every example now includes a new tab with the VB.NET code of the example. Users can...

Released: Jun 9, 2022

Updates in 2022.2

Features

General NOV Improvements

  • Support for Blazor / WebAssembly - NOV has full support for Blazor / WebAssembly. The entire functionality of NOV can be used on the client-side through C# or JavaScript.
  • Support hardware acceleration in WPF - The WPF rendering has been significantly improved and NOV can render directly to a DirectX image using hardware-accelerated rendering, which dramatically improves the rendering performance of the applications using NOV.
  • Localization Improvements...

Released: Feb 10, 2022

Updates in 2022.1

Features

  • Improved RTF, DOCX, and EPUB support - All major formats supported by the control (DOCX, RTF, and EPUB) are significantly improved for better accuracy.
  • Improved Customization - The control's customization capabilities have been significantly improved.
  • Support for .NET Core 5.0 - NOV has support for Microsoft .NET Core 5.0 as well as legacy .NET Framework 4.7.2 and above.
  • Support for Visual Studio 2022 - NOV fully integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 for both .NET Core and legacy...

Released: Mar 17, 2021

Updates in 2021.1

Features

General NOV Improvements

  • Hardware Accelerated Rendering - This release includes a new hardware-accelerated rendering engine based on OpenGL. This greatly improves NOV rendering speed and responsiveness in all UI-related tasks. All controls in the suite benefit directly from this new feature which is enabled by default. If the current hardware does not support hardware acceleration the rendering falls back to software rendering automatically.
  • Better Microsoft Visual Studio Integration...

Released: Dec 9, 2019

Updates in 2019.1

Features

  • Improved Table support.
  • Text orientation – horizontal and vertical cell orientation is supported per table cell.
  • Improved row and column resizing support from the user.
  • Improved support for interactive cell merging and splitting.
  • Improved support for WMF, EMF and EMF+ files.

Released: Apr 13, 2017

Updates in 2017.1

Features

  • Added support for Multiple Range Selection.
  • Improved handling of bullets in RTF and DOCX import/export.
  • NOV UI Improvements
    • Mac OS X El Capitan theme - a new UI theme which mimics the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan look and feel.
    • Dark theme - a new UI theme which uses dark colors.
    • Core Touch - added is core touch support that allows you to track multi-touch events in NOV UI.
  • Open Vision Framework Improvements:
    • Added support for .ttc (TrueType Collection Files).
    • Added support for cursive...