We have just added a new feature to the TX Text Control web site. In addition to the ability to post comments to blog posts, it is now also possible to commentate all pages in the documentation section. All pages that display the following button can accept user contributed notes.

Try it out for yourself. Click on the ADD NOTE button below, enter your note and submit the contribution. Once your user contributed note has been moderated, it will be attached to the bottom of this page.

We have just updated our TX Text Control developer reference card that gives a quick overview of the different products and supported platforms, .NET frameworks, IDEs or Windows versions.

Feel free to download the PDF version here:

• TX Text Control Developer Reference Card

Today, we released Service Pack 1 for TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.1.

Please take a look at the updated known issues list at:

• Known Issues and Fixes in TX Text Control RapidSpell .NET 15.1

You can download the service pack at:
http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/downloads/sps/

As ever, our support team is waiting to answer your questions. Full contact details at:
http://www.textcontrol.com/en_US/support/

We just returned from a great conference week in Darmstadt where Germany's largest .NET conference took place.

A lot of great speakers and the industry leading component vendors met to share their knowledge with the highly professional attendees. We had a lot of great discussions on our micro-booth where we presented our latest versions and projects including a co-operation with the leading UI component vendor. This co-operation will be officially announced in the next weeks.

I was very happy that our booth was very crowded. The interest in our new version 15.1 was very high and we also gathered interesting input from existing users. Thanks for all your support! On our booth, we distributed our new great looking "TX" Text Control baseball caps.

On Tuesday, I gave a fully occupied session about the Open XML SDK 2.0 (December 2009 CTP) presenting the advantages and the limits of using the SDK to create documents.

The next conference where you can see TX Text Control is the Visual Studio 2010 Launch in Las Vegas (12-14 April).

An enthusiastic user of TX Text Control recently published an open source project that provides a Microsoft CWnd-based wrapper for TX Text Control ActiveX 15.1.

Generally, ActiveX controls can be easily imported into MFC-based projects, but these wrappers around ActiveX controls are incomplete. This project contains wrappers for the TXTextControl, TXButtonBar, TXRulerBar and TXStatusBar. The TXWrapper class itself acts like a parent window for the TX Text Control components. Additionally, some helper classes and a sample application is part of the project.

If you plan to use TX Text Control ActiveX in a Visual C++ MFC project, I can really recommend this wrapper. It is all you need to start a TX Text Control word processing application using VC++.

Please visit the project's website on SourceForge to learn more about the wrapper or to download the files. All further contributions are welcome.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/txwrapper/