Author Archives: Muhammad Ijaz

Calculate critical path in your .NET applications

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.2.1 hotfix has been released. This release supports calculation of critical path in some complex cases where different types of task links or linked summary tasks have been used. This release also includes some important bug fixes.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET, please visit the download page… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Tasks Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged .NET, Project, critical path, product release

Add complex and group shapes in Visio diagrams

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.0.0 has been released. This release supports adding group shapes with children by specifying group master. You can also specify complex group master e.g. from network template or 3-D box from basic template.

A new AddShape overload has also been included in this release which allows you to set width, height and position of the shape while adding the shape.

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Calculate critical path, duration or resource assignment’s time phased data and render project to stream

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.2.0 has been released. This release supports calculating critical path, duration and a resource assignment’s time phased data. You can get a task’s duration in different time units including minutes, hours, days, weeks and months.

This release also supports generating BackLoaded, FrontLoaded, DoublePeak, EarlyPeak, LatePeak, Bell and Turtle work contours for assignments. Rendering Gantt chart to stream has also been supported in this release.

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Create 24 hours calendar and read time phased data and many new properties from MS Project 2010 MPP files

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.1.0 has been released. This release supports creating 24 hours calendar and a new API Aspose.Tasks.Calendar.Make24HourCalendar() has been introduced for this purpose.

This release also supports reading tasks and resources’ time phased data from MS Project 2003/2007/2010 MPP files as well as several new MS Project 2010 specific fields from MPP files. Some important bug fixes have also been included in this release.

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Create Visio diagrams from scratch in your .NET applications

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.9.0 has been released. This release includes support for creating diagrams from scratch. You can now add masters from stencils, templates or other diagrams and set properties of newly added shapes in your diagrams using Aspose.Diagram for .NET’s very simple API.

In this release, we have improved several XML, PDF, image and XPS rendering features. Some important fixes have also been included.

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Extract hOCR Text or Recognize Characters from Images in your Java Applications

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

We are pleased to announce our new product Aspose.OCR for Java. Aspose.OCR for Java is an optical character recognition component that allows developers to extract text from image files. You can extract text in hOCR format which not only gives you the extracted text but other text information (font and style etc.) as well.

Aspose.OCR for Java is aimed at the developers who need to add OCR functionality in their Java applications and provides a better performance. The API is … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.OCR Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged Extract text in hOCR format in Java, OCR, java, new product, optical character recognition, product release

Change tasks progress or read Active, DisplayAsSummary, StartText and FinishText from MPP files

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.0.0 has been released. This release supports changing tasks’ progress. A new API Task.SetPercentComplete has been included for this purpose. This release also supports reading Active, DisplayAsSummary, StartText and FinishTex values from MS Project 2010 MPP files. The release further includes the most recent bug fixes.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET, please visit the download page.… Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Tasks Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged Microsoft Project, complete, product release, tasks

Set Flowchart and CompactTree layouts or TIFF’s page size in your diagrams

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.8.0 has been released. This release includes support for auto layout features. You can set different styles of Flowchart and CompactTree layouts in your diagrams.

You can set the page size when rendering to TIFF format. Image and PDF rendering features have also been improved in this release.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes, and to download the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET, please visit the download page… Continue Reading

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Render Visio Diagrams with Shape Shadows and Anti-Aliasing Effect using C#

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.7.0 has been released. In this release, PDF and image rendering features have been improved. You can now render diagrams with shape shadows. Some new options have been included in the ImageSaveOptions class so that you can render diagrams with high quality and anti-aliasing effects.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET, please visit the download page… Continue Reading

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Render page layouts and inserted bitmaps to PDF, image, XPS and Visio XML formats

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 1.5.0 has been released. PDF, image, XPS and XML rendering features have been improved in this release. This release also supports page layouts and inserted bitmaps when rendering the diagrams to different formats. We have added support for several line ends (arrows). This release also includes the most recent bug fixes.

To see a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET, please visit the download page… Continue Reading

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