Change 1: Manual Registration Now

Aspose.Words.dll is a .NET class library, but you can use it via .NET COM Interop from many other languages such as ASP, Delphi, JScript, Perl, PHP, Python, C++ etc. In order to use Aspose.Words.dll from a COM client you need to have it registered for COM Interop.

The change is that Aspose.Words for .NET 9.1 does not register Aspose.Words.dll for COM Interop automatically during install. In earlier versions, Aspose.Words.dll has registered automatically.

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.NET Framework Client Profile is a subset of the .NET Framework optimized for client applications. Basically, it excludes some of the assemblies, for example, System.Web is excluded.

The Client Profile is available for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.0. You can compile your project for the Client Profile in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Studio 2010. You need to select to target the client profile in the project settings in Visual Studio.

One of the Aspose.Words’ Document.Save overloads allows saving … Continue Reading

Four of us from the Aspose.Words team attended the ODF Plugfest in Granada, Spain. Although it ended 17th April I got back home just now thanks to the volcano. Had to go back via Rome instead of London.

Anyway, I think we did well both for Aspose.Words support of ODT as well as for the OpenDocument ecosystem in general:

1. We run all previous ODF Plugfest test scenarios via Aspose.Words, logged issues where needed and started working on them already.
2. Made

Not so long ago International Organization for Standardization has accepted newer OOXML standard ISO/IEC 29500:2008 (supported by MS Word 2010) that became an extension of the older ECMA-376:2006 standard (supported by MS Word 2007). 

Now we’re happy to confirm that Aspose.Words for .NET 9.0 supports ISO/IEC 29500:2008 Transitional. The implementation contains some limitations which should not affect your document workflow but if you think they do please let us know. Read on for more details.

Strict vs. Transitional

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Some customers have reported they cannot build an application with Aspose.Words in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC.

We confirm you cannot build a project if you select one of the following Target framework settings in the Project Properties:

• .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile
• .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile

The error message is “… it has a dependency on Sysem.Web … which is not in the currently targeted framework”.

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This article is a call for your feedback. In the August 2009 we had to drop Aspose.Editor but left are functional pieces which can be reused in Aspose.Words, well, if you need them…

In past times developers relied on Word Object Model and VBA for their automation needs. Today Microsoft recommends VSTO and OOXML but still out there could be useful applications written in VBA, or you might be interested to port those to .NET, or you’d like to leverage … Continue Reading

This article is a technical blurb mostly about why it is taking so long for us to support footnotes and endnotes in Aspose.Words when rendering documents to PDF, XPS or printing. This post looks at how Microsoft Word handles some tricky layouts and even reveals some obscure flaws. It might be interesting to Aspose.Words customers who are waiting for footnotes to be supported or to any other developer whomever pondered about document layout.

We are happy to announce that a top priority feature (40+ requests logged in our defect database) is now implemented in the recently released Aspose.Words for .NET 9.0. TOC fields are now updated along with others!

TOC stands for Table of Contents and is represented by the TOC field in a Microsoft Word document. TOC entries may be built from:

• Paragraphs having the HeadingN style where N is the level of the heading
• Paragraphs having special styles specified in the

Great new features:

• Table of Contents (TOC) fields are now updated/rebuilt.
• Load and save Word 2010 OOXML documents (ISO 29500 Transitional).
• Improvements to handling embedded OLE objects and OOXML packages.
• TrueType fonts are subsetted and embedded into output EPUB.
• Footnotes are partially supported when rendering/saving to PDF.

A useful new article in the documentation with details of features supported in save to PDF http://www.aspose.com/documentation/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net-and-java/save-in-the-adobe-portable-document-pdf-format.html.

To download http://www.aspose.com/community/files/51/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/default.aspx

Expect more posts from the senior developers on the Aspose.Words team about what they’ve done … Continue Reading