What a year! We look back on a wonderful, very successful, and exciting 2012. Hard work, thrilling product releases and terrific conferences.

The year is not over yet and our team is already working on new innovations and features for upcoming releases. Nevertheless, it is time to recap the last year and to point out the Text Control highlights of 2012.

January February March April May June July August September October November

January

Text Control is ComponentSource Enterprise Partner

Text Control is ComponentSource Enterprise Partner

We have sold our products with the software component reseller ComponentSource since their establishment in 1995. One of the first products sold by ComponentSource was TX Text Control. 12 leading publishers are listed as Enterprise partners and Text Control is one of them.

February

South Florida Code Camp 2012

South Florida Code Camp 2012

The Florida user groups hosted their eighth code camp at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale-Davie: South Florida Code Camp 2012. We were very proud to be on site as a sponsor and exhibitor to meet the South Florida .NET community.

Text Control at BASTA! Spring 2012

Text Control was a sponsor at BASTA! Spring - the largest European Microsoft .NET focused conference. As every year, we sent a team to get your questions answered about the leading word processing components.

GrapeCity is Exclusive Partner in China and Korea

Good news for our users in China and Korea. Beginning last year, we teamed up with GrapeCity to provide technical support and sales consulting in China. Now, GrapeCity Korea is our exclusive partner in Korea, located in Seoul.

March

Gold Sponsor at Nebraska Code Camp

Scott Hanselman was the keynote speaker at the Nebraska Code Camp - a free, community-driven developer conference. As a gold sponsor, we were on site with our mobile booth.

Gold Sponsor at CodepaLOUsa in Louisville, KY

This annual event was held at the Louisville Marriott Downtown. They had a fantastic speaker line up including Billy Hollis and Chris "Woody" Woodruff. Text Control was the main sponsor of this event.

Text Control @ DevConnections, MGM Grand, Las Vegas

Text Control @ DevConnections, MGM Grand, Las Vegas

We celebrated the Visual Studio 11 Beta release and the SQL Server 2012 launch. We unveiled the roadmap for 2012 and TX Text Control X8.

TX Text Control Was Deeper in .NET 2012 Sponsor

Deeper in .NET 2012 was held on March 31, 2012 in the Expo Center at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino. We were proud to be a sponsor of this great event in Wisconsin.

April

Text Control at .NET Day Franken, Nuremberg

We were sponsoring another great community event in Germany: .NET Day Franken. This .NET focused one day conference is very popular - the tickets were sold out within several days.

Text Control is European Sales Partner for GrapeCity Spread.NET

Text Control is European sales partner for Spread.NET. This spreadsheet processing component is the perfect addition to TX Text Control to embed programmable MS Excel and MS Word functionality into .NET based applications.

May

The Carolina Code Camp Came to Our Hometown

The Carolina Code Camp came to Charlotte at May 5th. The Enterprise Developers Guild launched the first event in Spring 2005 and has been organizing code camps annually. As a Gold sponsor, we staffed a table at the code camp. We were very proud to support this great event in Charlotte.

Text Control is Philly Code Camp 2012.1 Gold Sponsor

The Philly Code Camp is a biannual event run by the Philly.Net User Group. The first Philly Code Camp this year was held at the Penn State campus in Abington, PA on Saturday, May 12. We were proud to support this event as a Gold sponsor.

GOTO Conference 2012 in Denmark

More than 350 developers, architects and DBAs have come together to learn about the latest trends from great speakers. We sent our European conference team to this great event to showcase our latest developments and products.

Announced Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility

We were working closely with Microsoft to make sure that future versions of TX Text Control will run under the final release of Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012.

June

2012 SD Times 100: Text Control is Leading... Again

2012 SD Times 100: Text Control is leading... again

Text Control is leading again. Every year, the SD Times 100 recognizes companies, non-commercial organizations, open source projects and other initiatives for their innovation and leadership. It is the list, where every innovative technology company wants to get listed.

Test Drive TX Text Control 18.0: CTP Demo Released

Right on time for TechEd North America, we released the long awaited TX Text Control 18.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) demo application.

Text Control @ TechEd North America 2012, Orlando

Text Control @ TechEd North America 2012, Orlando

Again, Text Control exhibited at the biggest Microsoft conference in North America: TechEd North America 2012. We presented our brand new Community Technology Preview (CTP) of TX Text Control X8.

New Template Designer Announced

It comes with full sources and can be deployed as your mail merge template designer royalty-free. It contains all features and functionality to create highly professional templates for your reports or other mail merge documents.

July

Using HighEdit HED Files in TX Text Control

As part of our porting services for migrating from another rich text control to TX Text Control, we introduced the possibility to convert your documents into a modern format that is usable in TX Text Control.

PDF Reflow - Load, View, Edit and Convert Adobe PDF Files

We announced PDF Reflow. TX Text Control is able to import such "born digital" PDF documents, so that you can view, edit or convert these files. The main advantage of TX Text Control is that it is fully programmable. The PDF document is imported and can be modified just like any other format such as DOC or DOCX. The fully featured API can be used to change the content or to search on the document.

August

TX Text Control X8 Has Been Released

TX Text Control X8 has been released

We published TX Text Control X8 which was our largest ever release in terms of features and functionality.

TX Text Control X8: Inserting Chart Controls

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms X8 now supports the insertion of chart controls of the type DataVisualization.Charting.Chart. It is part of the .NET Framework since version 4.0, but can be added to prior versions as well.

ServerTextControl and DocumentServer Available in Client Applications

Since version X8, the classes ServerTextControl and DocumentServer.MailMerge can be used within client applications without optional Server and run-time licences.

ActiveX Subscriptions Are Back

We wanted to protect our users from decisions we have no influence in. It was not possible to get a definitive statement from Microsoft that guaranteed that ActiveX and COM is supported in future operating systems such as Windows 8. We are very happy to offer the ActiveX Subscriptions again.

September

Houston TechFest and Text Control

More than 900 enthusiastic developers met to connect, learn and share. We were a proud Platinum sponsor and exhibited at the Houston TechFest conference.

Text Control at BASTA! 2012

With more than 120 sessions presented by numerous renowned speakers from around the world, BASTA! is corraling .NET developers from all over Europe into a nice venue for a highly informative week. Twice a year, we are exhibiting at this great conference.

TX Spell .NET 3.0 Released: New Suggestion Engine, Customizable Dialog

We published TX Spell .NET 3.0 with great new features such as an improved suggestion quality, customizable dialogs, new events and context menus.

Announcing Barcode Controls for Windows Forms, WPF and ASP.NET

We were very proud to announce a new product line that was introduced at several conferences over the last months: TX Barcode .NET. TX Barcode .NET enables developers to integrate barcodes into .NET-based applications.

October

GOTO Conference in Aarhus, Denmark

We were very proud to be a sponsor of the GOTO Conference in Aarhus. It was an interesting melting pot of technologies and platforms: Microsoft .NET, Java, PHP or Perl.

Text Control @ Silicon Valley Code Camp

With more than 3000 registered attendees, it is one of the largest code camps in the United States. Over 200 speakers in 217 sessions at a very nice venue - the Foothill College in Los Altos Hills.

NRW Conf 2012

It was a fantastic event in Wuppertal: NRW Conf 2012. Thanks to the whole Just Community team for the exceptional efforts making this conference an outstanding event in Germany.

TX Text Control Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility Pack Released

TX Text Control Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility Pack released

As an active member of the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program and as an official Visual Studio 2012 SimShip Partner, we have committed to support new versions of Visual Studio and to make sure that our products work seamlessly with Visual Studio 2012.

Creating Reports from Salesforce, QuickBooks or SAP Databases

Creating reports from Salesforce, QuickBooks or SAP databases

We announced a co-operation with our friends from RSSBus Inc. The combination of the powerful mail merge and reporting capabilities of TX Text Control and the high-performance RSSBus data providers gives developers a perfect tool set to create professional reports from various data sources.

TX Spell .NET is Best-selling Spell Checking Component at ComponentSource

TX Spell .NET is best-selling spell checker at ComponentSource

Since the release of TX Spell .NET, it is growing in popularity and now it is the best-selling spell checking component at the largest software component reseller ComponentSource.

November

Text Control at DevConnections in Las Vegas

Text Control at DevConnections in Las Vegas

It was a fantastic conference week in Las Vegas at DevConnections 2012. We presented new features of TX Text Control X8, TX Spell .NET and upcoming features and technologies such as data-bound chart controls in our MailMerge component.

Text Control at PHP Conference Taiwan 2012

We sent our very own LiveDocx evangelist Jonathan Maron to PHPConf Taiwan 2012 in Taipei to talk about our cloud service LiveDocx.

Text Control at Philly Code Camp

More than 50 sessions were scheduled in 10 parallel tracks. 600+ attendees came to Penn State in Abington, PA. We are always glad to support this code camp as a main sponsor.

Technology Roadmap 2013: Touch Capabilities, Barcodes and Reporting

We published some upcoming key features, products and technologies as part of our technology roadmap 2013.