# Upgrade Your Express to Professional: Limited Special Offer > TX Text Control Express is the free Windows Forms edition available since 2011, serving as a rich text editing baseline. The Professional and Enterprise editions add MS Word format support, PDF import and export, mail merge reporting, 2D and 3D charts, and barcode integration. - **Author:** Bjoern Meyer - **Published:** 2013-06-05 - **Modified:** 2026-03-05 - **Description:** TX Text Control Express is the free Windows Forms edition available since 2011, serving as a rich text editing baseline. The Professional and Enterprise editions add MS Word format support, PDF import and export, mail merge reporting, 2D and 3D charts, and barcode integration. - **3 min read** (440 words) - **Tags:** - Tutorial - **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2013/06/05/upgrade-your-express-to-professional-limited-special-offer/ - **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2013/06/05/upgrade-your-express-to-professional-limited-special-offer/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2013/06/05/upgrade-your-express-to-professional-limited-special-offer/llms-full.txt --- ![Upgrade your Express to Professional: An Overview](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/banner_express.webp "Upgrade your Express to Professional: An Overview")Since 2011, we are offering a free edition of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms: TX Text Control Express. This **Express** edition gives you a very good alternative to all other available rich edit controls. ### Limited Until the End of June 2013, You Will Get a Free License of TX Barcode .NET with Your Order of TX Text Control .NET Professional or Enterprise (Windows Forms or WPF). All you need to do is to **call us**: United States: +1 704 544 7445 ============================== Europe: +49 421 427067 10 ========================= Or [send us a message](https://www.textcontrol.com/contact/). The **Professional** and **Enterprise** editions give you full access to the power of TX Text Control. Below are some feature highlights you could offer your users out-of-the-box. ### Load, Edit and Save MS Word documents ![TX Text Control Professional](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/pdf.webp "TX Text Control Professional")Load and convert documents from and to any supported format. e.g. DOC to DOCX, DOCX to PDF. ### Mail Merge and Reporting ![TX Text Control Professional](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/mailmerge.webp "TX Text Control Professional")Create reports with master-detail relationship repeating blocks based on MS Word compatible templates. ### Create and Import PDF documents ![TX Text Control Professional](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/pdf_import.webp "TX Text Control Professional")Import and edit PDF files for which the original word processing source files are missing. Create Adobe PDF files by saving or converting them. ### 2D and 3D Charting Support ![TX Text Control Professional](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/chart.webp "TX Text Control Professional")Add powerful data visualizations in a report or any other document. Charts can be used to attractively visualize large volumes of data. ### Headers, Footers and Page Columns ![TX Text Control Professional](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/page_columns.webp "TX Text Control Professional")Add headers and footers to each section or odd and even pages. All aspects of headers and footers can be set with the shipped dialog box. ### Free Barcode Component ![TX Text Control Professional](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/05/a/assets/barcode.webp "TX Text Control Professional")Add fast and accurate 1D and 2D barcodes to your applications. They have been specifically designed for the requirements when integrating into documents, such as invoices. [Take advantage of our special offer and send us a message ](https://www.textcontrol.com/contact/ "Contact us") --- ## About Bjoern Meyer As CEO, Bjoern is the visionary behind our strategic direction and business development, bridging the gap between our customers and engineering teams. His deep passion for coding and web technologies drives the creation of innovative products. If you're at a tech conference, be sure to stop by our booth - you'll most likely meet Bjoern in person. With an advanced graduate degree (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science, specializing in AI, from the University of Bremen, Bjoern brings significant expertise to his role. In his spare time, Bjoern enjoys running, paragliding, mountain biking, and playing the piano. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernmeyer/) - [X](https://x.com/txbjoern) - [GitHub](https://github.com/bjoerntx) --- ## Related Posts - [Windows Forms Tutorial: Create Your First Windows Forms C# Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/08/26/windows-forms-tutorial-create-your-first-windows-forms-csharp-application/llms.txt) - [How to Mail Merge MS Word DOCX Documents in ASP.NET Core C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/10/16/how-to-mail-merge-ms-word-docx-documents-in-aspnet-core-csharp/llms.txt) - [Creating an Angular Document Editor Application with a Node.js WebSocket Server](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/08/24/creating-an-angular-document-editor-application-with-a-nodejs-websocket-server/llms.txt) - [Adding SVG Watermarks to Documents](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/01/28/adding-svg-watermarks-to-documents/llms.txt) - [Using MailMerge in ASP.NET Core 6 Web Applications](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/01/27/using-mailmerge-in-aspnet-core-6-web-applications/llms.txt) - [DocumentViewer for React Prerelease](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/27/document-viewer-for-react-prerelease/llms.txt) - [New DocumentViewer Signature Tutorial Sample](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/08/18/new-documentviewer-signature-tutorial-sample/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET MVC DocumentViewer Application With Razor](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-mvc-documentviewer-application-with-razor/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First Windows Forms Application with C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-windows-forms-application-with-csharp/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First WPF Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-wpf-application/llms.txt) - [Creating a WPF Ribbon Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-wpf-ribbon-application/llms.txt) - [Integrate Document Editing into any HTML Client using the HTML Widget](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/integrate-document-editing/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application With Razor](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-mvc-application-with-razor/llms.txt) - [Creating A Windows Forms Ribbon Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-windows-forms-ribbon-application/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First ASP.NET Reporting Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-aspnet-reporting-application/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET Web Forms AJAX Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-web-forms-ajax-application/llms.txt) - [Creating a WebSocket Server Project with Node.js](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-websocket-server-project-with-nodejs/llms.txt) - [Creating an Angular Document Editor Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-angular-document-editor-application/llms.txt) - [ReportingCloud .NET Core Quickstart Tutorial](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/24/reportingcloud-dotnet-core-quickstart-tutorial/llms.txt) - [Document Permissions and Password Encryption](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/05/document-permissions-and-password-encryption/llms.txt) - [New Online Sample: Build your First Report](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/03/build-your-first-report/llms.txt) - [Create your First Document with ReportingCloud](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/02/19/create-your-first-document-with-reportingcloud/llms.txt) - [MailMerge: Starting Each Merge Block on a New Page](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/09/09/mailmerge-starting-each-merge-block-on-a-new-page/llms.txt) - [Windows Forms and WPF: End a List on Return when Line is Empty](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/26/windows-forms-and-wpf-end-a-list-on-return-when-line-is-empty/llms.txt) - [Using IFormattedText Objects to Access Elements Across All TextParts in a Document](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/25/using-iformattedtext-objects-to-access-elements-across-all-textparts-in-a-document/llms.txt)