Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.0 Released

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Please welcome our next major release of Aspose.Words for .NET!

The main feature in Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.0 is load and save of Office Open XML documents reaching its Release status.

To download http://www.aspose.com/Community/Files/51/aspose.words/default.aspx

Why Major Version Change?

Because we’ve done a lot. Here is a list of features that we have gradually added since Aspose.Words for .NET 4.0.0 released back in October 2006:

• Load and save Office Open XML documents.
• Load and save RTF documents.
• Load and save Microsoft Word 2003 WordprocessingML documents.
• Save in OpenDocument (ODT) format (Beta).
• 64-bit and Windows Vista support.
• Numerous improvements and fixes in all areas.

New Save Formats

Have a look at the updated SaveFormat enum, it includes the following new formats:

• SaveFormat.Docx – Saves the document as a Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML Document (macro-free).
• SaveFormat.Docm – Saves the document as a Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML Macro-Enabled Document.
• SaveFormat.Dotx – Saves the document as a Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML Template (macro-free).
• SaveFormat.Dotm – Saves the document as a Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML Macro-Enabled Template.
• SaveFormat.Odt – BETA! Saves the document in the OpenDocument format.

Note that the Office Open XML specification and Microsoft Word 2007 strictly distinguish between macro-enabled and macro-free documents. If you save a document with macros as DOCX, Microsoft Word 2007 will reject to open it (unfortunately with a misleading error message). Therefore, you need to make sure you are saving an Office Open XML document in the correct (macro-free or macro-enabled) format. By default, Aspose.Words fully preserves VBA projects in Office Open XML documents, but you can remove all macros from a document using the Document.RemoveMacros method.

Great news, we have included a beta version of saving to Open Document (ODT) format. You are welcome to try it out, but beware not all document features are yet exported.

Office Open XML Conformance

We are fully committed to making Aspose.Words support the Office Open XML specification 100% in the shortest timeframe possible and we are well on track to achieving this.

Since the previous beta release we have added support for the following features:

• Smart Tags
• OLE embedded and linked objects
• VBA projects
• Digital signatures for VBA projects
• Many others

Although the degree of Aspose.Words conformance to OOXML is high, not all OOXML features are yet supported. A detailed conformance specification is provided in a separate spreadsheet. For example ActiveX controls, Structured Document Tags (Content Controls) and Custom XML are not yet supported. These will be supported in the following months.

Breaking Changes in the API

By having a major version change we indicate there are some breaking changes in the API.

The changes are not likely to affect many users. Even if you cannot recompile your project because of a change, it is very easy to update your code because all changes are cosmetic, although they had to be done.

The breaking changes in Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.0 are:

1. All collection classes, such as Paragraphs, Runs, Tables, Bookmarks etc have been renamed into ParagraphCollection, RunCollection, TableCollection, BookmarkCollection, CellCollection accordingly.
   
2. New namespaces Aspose.Words.Fields, Aspose.Words.Lists, Aspose.Words.Markup, Aspose.Words.Properties and Aspose.Words.Tables were introduced and classes moved into the new namespaces.

Collection classes were renamed to become more inline with the .NET Framework Design guidelines and to allow creation of the new namespaces (for example, to avoid confusion between the old Lists class and new Lists namespace).

New namespaces were created because the Aspose.Words namespace grew too big and we have a lot of new public classes to add in the future, therefore some reorganization was necessary. We hope you will find new namespaces easy to use. For example, Aspose.Words.Lists namespace contains all classes and enums required to work with bulleted and numbered lists in a document.

Changes and Fixes from Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.3 to 5.0.0