SD Times 100: Text Control is best in show

Typically around the time of TechEd NA, the software development industry is getting excited about the announcement of the SD Times 100 winners. SD Times published the top leaders and innovators in our industry. Text Control has won this award for the third consecutive year!

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Upgrade your Express to Professional: Limited Special Offer

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).

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SD Times .NET Component Buyers Guide 2013: Simplify Report Creation

After Text Control has been recognized in the famous SD Times 100 list of innovative software companies in 2013, we are also listed in The 2013 .NET Component Buyers Guide & Visual Studio Sourcebook.

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Understanding the UpperTextLength of barcodes in TX Text Control X9

One of the major improvements in TX Text Control X9 is the integrated support for barcodes of type TX Barcode .NET. This barcode component, available for Windows Forms and WPF, enables developers to integrate barcodes into .NET based applications. This article shows how to use the auto sizing of the barcode component.

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TX Barcode .NET: Implementing a custom DataGridViewBarcodeCell

Barcodes are not only used in reports or forms. A typical application is the display of a specific cell value as a barcode in a DataGridView. One of our shipped samples show how to use TX Barcode .NET to implement a custom DataGridViewBarcodeCell.

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Inserting MS Word compatible page number fields

TX Text Control X9 introduced a new ready-to-use dialog and context menus to insert and manipulate page numbers. Additionally, a new type of page numbers has been implemented to show the total number of pages. This page number field is updated automatically when pages are added or removed.

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Word processing basics: Using style sheets

The usage of style sheets is a elegant, abstract way to separate the formatting from the associated text. You might use this feature in MS Word without understanding the word processing background of it. Everytime, you are using a template to write a letter or fax in MS Word, styles are used to control the text formatting.

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The Future of Business Applications: The Desktop Lives

From reading the press, you would get the impression that the desktop is dying and that every deskop will be replaced with a mobile device soon. But this is a biased view on the numbers. Yes, PC sales are decreasing and the tablet market is growing. But there are explainable reasons for this transition.

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Text Control on Tour: .Net Day Franken 2013

Windows Azure Cloud Computing, App development for Windows Phone 8, HTML5 and CSS3 are just a few of the interesting topics of the 1-day conference in Nuremberg. We are supporting this event since last year as a Gold sponsor and we will be exhibiting to continue our Flow Type Layout Reporting tour.

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Philly Code Camp 2013.1 recap

It was a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia this weekend, but a perfect day to learn from experienced speakers at the Philly Code Camp 2013. 550 attendees spent their day at the facilities of the beautiful Penn State University in Abington, PA.

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Flow Type Layout Reporting - Free Consulting

TX Text Control X9 comes with the Flow Type Layout Reporting package including the easy-to-use and customizable template designer TX Text Control Words and the powerful reporting engine DocumentServer.MailMerge. Using this combination, you can easily integrate powerful MS Word compatible reporting into your .NET applications.

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