Category Archive: Muhammad Ijaz

Generate or read GS1QR barcodes and speed up barcode detection by specifying manual hints and multiple recognition areas in .NET applications

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Muhammad Ijaz

We are pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Barcode for .NET 7.5.0. This release supports encoding and decoding GS1QR barcodes, and specifying manual hints and multiple recognition areas to speed up the recognition process.

Speed up barcode recognition process using manual hints

Aspose.Barcode for .NET allows you to specify manual hints and speed up recognition process. BarCodeReader.ManualHints property can be set to appropriate ManualHint enumeration value e.g.


Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();
string filename = @"Barcode.jpg";
using (BarCodeReader reader =

Export Visio diagrams to SWF and find connected shapes in your .NET applications with Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.5.0

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.5.0 has been released. This release supports exporting Microsoft Visio diagrams to SWF format and allows you to include or exclude SWF viewer in the output SWF files. This release also allows you to find connected shapes (incoming connections, outgoing connections or all) from Visio diagrams. 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 … Continue Reading

Export Visio diagrams to SVG format in your .NET or Mono applications

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.4.0 has been released. This release supports exporting Microsoft Visio diagrams to SVG format and allows you to set page size and page index to export a specific page to SVG. Auto-layout shapes feature has also been improved in this release and creates 90 degree connectors instead of straight connectors.

This release also supports creating new diagrams and exporting existing diagrams in Mono applications because some Mono related issues are fixed in this release. You can also … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged .NET, Diagram, SVG, auto-layout, product release

Set pre-defined page sizes or change shapes’ order in Visio diagrams with Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.3.0

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.3.0 has been released. This release supports setting pre-defined page sizes. Now you can render Visio diagrams to images after setting pre-defined page sizes including A4, Letter and many others.

This release also supports setting the shapes’ Z-order. You can bring a shape to front, send it to back or place it anywhere in the Z-order. Another exciting feature this release supports is to automatically resize page to cover all the shapes. Some important fixes have also … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged .NET, Microsoft Visio, pre-defined page size, product release, shapes

Export Visio Diagrams to HTML or High-Quality PDFs and Images

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.2.0 has been released. This release supports the export to HTML feature which allows you to easily export your Visio diagrams to HTML. PDF and image rendering features have also been improved and support for various line styles and anti-aliasing have been included. Now you can export Visio diagrams to high-quality PDFs and images. Some important fixes have also been included.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the new release … Continue Reading

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged Convert Visio to HTML, Convert Visio to High Quality PDF, Convert Visio to Images

Add Connectors and Set Radial and Circular Style Layouts in Visio Diagrams

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Muhammad Ijaz

Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.1.0 has been released. This release supports connecting shapes easily using a single API. For this purpose, we have introduced the Page.ConnectShapesViaConnector API. Release 2.1.0 also supports radial and circular layouts. Now you can lay out shapes in radial and circular styles. Some important fixes have also been included 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

Posted in Aspose.Diagram Product Family, Muhammad Ijaz | Tagged .NET, Microsoft Visio, connecting shapes, product release

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.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download … Continue Reading

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

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.

To view a complete list of new features and fixes and to download the … Continue Reading