Updated MVC DocumentViewer: Session-less and Improved Image Quality

Bjoern Meyer

December 12, 2019

The ASP.NET MVC DocumentViewer 27.0.8.500 removes the InProc session state dependency, supporting session-less and SQL session state deployments. The update also improves page rendering quality to match the visual fidelity of the TX Text Control document editor and exported PDF output.

Updated MVC DocumentViewer: Session-less and Improved Image Quality

We just released a new version of the ASP.NET MVC DocumentViewer that can be used in combination with our product TX Text Control .NET Server. The DocumentViewer can be updated directly by updating the NuGet package (27.0.8.500):

TXTextControl.Web.DocumentViewer

What is new in this version?

Previous versions of the DocumentViewer require the server-side InProc session state to be enabled in ASP.NET MVC applications. The InProc session state mode stores data in memory in the application worker process. It is a fast method to store data, but more data means a higher memory footprint which affects performance.

We removed the requirement to store any data completely from the DocumentViewer which allows you to use the component in any MVC ASP.NET project now including session state SQL and session-less states.

Additionally, the image quality of document pages has been increased, so that rendered pages look exactly similar to the rendering in the TX Text Control document editor or exported documents such as Adobe PDF.

In the below screenshot you can see this updated DocumentViewer with the high quality page rendering.

Improved image quality in DocumentViewer

Test this on your own and use our tutorial to create your first MVC application with the DocumentViewer:

Creating an ASP.NET MVC DocumentViewer Application With Razor

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