The Imaging Source Has Become A Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP)

Charlotte, United States (September 9, 2008) - The Imaging Source, manufacturer of the software component TX Text Control, today announces participation in the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program.

With their engagement in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program, The Imaging Source is continuing its mission to seamlessly integrating the word processing component TX Text Control into Visual Studio .NET 2005 and 2008.

"This relationship with Microsoft allows an unprecedented support of our development tools in Visual Studio. Furthermore, it helps ensure compatibility with future versions of TX Text Control and Visual Studio", states Björn Meyer, product manager at The Imaging Source.

The Imaging Source is one of more than two hundred industry market leaders in the VSIP program, which develops and markets premium products for Visual Studio.

"We are delighted to announce The Imaging Source's participation in the VSIP program, said Joe Marini, director of the VSIP program in the Developer Tools Ecosystem team at Microsoft Corp. "TX Text Control's support for Visual Studio helps enable our mutual customers to more quickly build applications on the Windows platform."

With TX Text Control, The Imaging Source manufacturers software components to edit, convert and create standard word processing document formats, such as Office Open XML, DOC and RTF.

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About TX Text Control

Since its original release in 1991, more than 50,000 copies of TX Text Control have been sold. The .NET Server version of TX Text Control offers developers a solid tool set to create robust server side word processing applications. The .NET Windows Forms and WPF client versions offer all the features expected of a fully fledged word processing application in reusable component form. Customers benefit from these years of experience, large user-base, and at the same time, appreciate developing with a mature, reliable product.