What's New in TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0 introduces 4 new features that improve the user experience of tables:

1. Column selection
   Using the mouse or keyboard, you can select table columns with one click on the down arrow in the first table row. Or you can simply click and drag to select some cells.
2. Select cells in the middle of a table
   You no longer have to select cells row-wise. Multiple cells can be selected in the middle of a table.
3. Colored table borders
   The color and width of every single border in each cell can be adjusted programmatically or using the built-in dialog box.
4. Cell merging and splitting
   Merge and split table cells to build professionally structured tables to represent your tabular data.

The following animation illustrates these improvements:

The default selection color for all selections in TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0 has been modernized to use a light blue-gray background color with no more inversed colors.

Learn more: Table Class

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0 ships with new functionality that allows you to build spreadsheet-like applications. TableCell.Name property can be used to store data such as formulas, a name or a specific ID.

Learn more: TableCell Class

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0 ships with an entirely new feature which allows you to add a border around one or more edges of a page or section.

The Page Setup dialog box has been extended to include a new tab which allows you to set the following parameters:

• width, style and color of the border
• edges on which the border should appear

Borders can be set to run around the edges of a page, or relative to the text on the page.

As page borders can also be specified on sections, it is possible to have different page borders on each page of a document.

Learn more: PageBorder class

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0 now supports digital signatures in Adobe PDF and PDF/A documents. Signatures can be created with PFX, DER Cer or Base64 CER certificate files. Additionally, certificates can be loaded from raw data or selected from the local certificate store.

The SaveSettings class has been extended with a DigitalSignature property that can be used to set the signature. To create a new signature, a valid System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificate2 and an optional time server URL must be given. This makes it very easy to create securely signed PDF documents.

The following animation illustrates a typical dialog with is used to prepare a digital signature. This dialog is available as a sample application, complete with full source code.

When opening such documents in Adobe Acrobat, a blue bar indicates that the document is signed with a valid signature:

Additionally, all certificate details can be viewed in a separate panel:

Learn more: SaveSettings.DigitalSignature Property

With the release of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0, Text Control is proud to announce the immediate availability of two new spell checking products:

• TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms
• TX Spell .NET for WPF

The new spell checking components enable you add extremely fast spell checking functionality to your TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms based applications with minimum effort.

TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms and TX Spell .NET for WPF can be used with an unlimited number of dictionaries and user dictionaries at the same time, thus enabling you to check documents, which contain multiple languages. They support the freely available and deployable Hunspell dictionaries of OpenOffice.org, of which there are more than sixty to download and deploy in your own application.

TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms and TX Spell .NET for WPF have been built from ground up to match the key principles of performance, reliability and accuracy.

Another unique feature is the deep integration of TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms and TX Spell .NET for WPF into TX Text Control. This allows you to connect many TextControls to a single instance of the spell checker, thus saving resources.

Learn more: TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms and TX Spell .NET for WPF

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms 17.0 ships with improved HTML import and export filters. These new filters make it very easy to add HTML import and export to your TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms based application.