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OfficeWriter Version 4.0 is here - See below the new features and benefits added!
New Features | Features for Excel | Features for Word | Reporting Services Features | Performance Enhancements
 
OfficeWriter V4 is the culmination of a major rewrite of OfficeWriter. Office 2007 XML File Formats are fully supported. There is no longer any dependency on the Java run-time – all code is native .NET in C#. Best of all, performance is dramatically improved in terms of both execution time and memory usage. The creation of larger files are up to six times faster than prior versions, and the XML file format uses up to forty times less memory. Most actions are 30%-40% faster. This is a huge benefit for all customers and all circumstances.
 
New Features for Excel:
bullet ExcelTemplate now has support for Excel 2007 OpenXML files with .xlsx or .xlsm extensions
 
- This provides many new options such as support for more than a million rows and 16K columns
- Virtually unlimited unique colors
- No limit to number of conditional formats
- Unlimited number of styles per workbook
- Up to 32K characters per cell
bullet Office 2007 templates in Excel and Word
bullet It is now possible to iterate over all of the named ranges in a worksheet or workbook.
bullet New property Shape.FillTransparency added, which takes a real number from 0 (opaque) to 1 (transparent).
bullet It is now possible to bind data only to an individual worksheet using the new DataBindingProperties object in ExcelTemplate
bullet SofArtisans.OfficeWriter.ExcelWriter.dll contains only the pure .NET ExcelApplication and ExcelTemplate classes. The legacy .NET wrapper classes for ExcelWriter COM are no longer included.
bullet All rewritten in C#. No more dependency on J# run-time
bullet Support for Unicode Data Markers
bullet New GetTextHeight() and GetTextWidth() methods to assist with autofitting merged cells
bullet New InsertRows() and InsertColumns() methods for bulk insertion of rows and columns
bullet Performance improvements:
 
- ExcelApplication and ExcelTemplate process binary (.xls) files up to 50% faster
- Files with many formulas are processed up to twice as fast with ExcelTemplate
- New data binding method allows you to bind a data source with only the data markers in a specific worksheet
- Faster algorithm for style optimization in ExcelApplication
- Improved performance when opening existing files with ExcelApplication
- Improved performance when setting column width with ExcelApplication
- Improved performance of ExcelApplication's formula parser. Formulas can now be inserted up to 8 times faster.
- Reduced memory usage by ExcelTemplate
- Blank cell optimizations product up to 400% improvement in speed and memory usage when using ExcelTemplate with ExcelApplication
- Improved autofit algorithm
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New Features for Word:
bullet Office Open XML (OOXML) File Support. The WordTemplate object now supports .docx and .docm files with all their new features including:
 
- Support for new themes, styles and table formatting options
- Support for new shapes, charts and diagrams
bullet Office 2007 templates in Excel and Word
bullet All re-written in C#. No more dependency on J# run-time
bullet IF field evaluation
bullet Processing large binary Word files is up to 6 times faster with WordApplication and 35% faster with WordTemplate
bullet Processing large files or importing data with WordTemplate uses 40 times less memory with OOXML files (.docx and .docm)
bullet HTMLtoWord (new open source project for importing HTML-formatted text into WordWriter documents)
bullet Generate mailing labels easily with the new EnableNextFields property
bullet Use the new SetMailMerge() method to perform mail merges that closely match Microsoft Word mail merge functionality.
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New Features for SQL Reporting Services:
bullet Office 2007
Now has support for Office 2007 OpenXML files with .xlsx, .xlsm, docx or docm extensions
bullet Full SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Support
Our designer now supports the embedding of Excel and Word within reports for SQL Server Reporting Services releases up to SQL Server 2008.
bullet Full Support for Visual Studio 2008
OfficeWriter Reporting Services integration now supports RDLs edited in Visual Studio 2008
bullet Support for Reporting Services in SharePoint integration mode
OfficeWriter Reporting Services includes support now for the new SharePoint integration mode in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
bullet Forms Authentication with the OfficeWriter Designer
When a user attempts to connect to a report server with forms authentication, he or she will be prompted to enter a username and a password.
bullet Support for Report Model data sources and Report Builder 2.0
bullet Enabling of Office Writer for Reporting Services properties from the web.config file of the report server application
bullet Improved support for images
Our Word designer now provides the ability to insert images
bullet Shared DataSource support
Shared DataSources are now preserved when publishing the report from OfficeWriter Designer
bullet Data Types now preserved
OfficeWriter renderers now access the original value in order to preserve the underlying data type.
 
 
 
Full Support of New Microsoft Releases:
bullet Visual Studio bullet IIS 7.0 bullet Windows Server 2008
bullet SQL Server 2008 bullet 64-bit operating systems    
 
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