Aspose Words for .NET

Aspose Words for .NET

·       Create, manipulate, render or convert Word files to multiple formats as well as generate reports without depending on any external software.

Aspose.Words for .NET is an advanced document processing API to perform a wide range of management and manipulation tasks.

API supports to generate, modify, convert, render and print files without utilizing Microsoft Word directly within cross-platform applications.

Moreover, API supports all the popular formats as well as allows exporting or converting Word files to fixed-layout and most commonly used image/multimedia formats.

By integrating API, some of the basic tasks developers can perform such as designing of fully-featured Microsoft Word reports having standard mail merge fields, reliable conversion between several popular formats, high fidelity rendering of pages, formatting of all document elements and more.

A Word Document Processing API that allows the developers to work with Microsoft Word® documents without needing Office Automation.

 

Advanced .NET Word API Features

·         Perform mail merge & generate reports

·         Insert formatted text, paragraphs, images, and tables

·         Fill tables using data from the database as well as create and modify table styles

·         Create mailing labels

·         Move sections between files

·         Mail merge data from multiple tables

·         Add watermark to document

·         Format date and numeric fields during mail merge

·         Join and split files

·         Encrypt documents as well as Load encrypted files

·         Find and replace text, enumerate over document content

·         Preserve or extract OLE objects and ActiveX controls

·         Preserve or remove VBA macros

·         Preserve VBA macros' digital signature

·         Detect digital signatures

·         Insert HTML contents

·         Interconvert file format

·         Add a bookmark at a deep level

·         Convert EquationXML to Office Math

·         Nested reports are supported by LINQ reporting engine

·         Create snip corner rectangle

·         Save the resources of MHTML document using the "Content-Id" URL Scheme

·         Show or hide comments in fixed file format

·         Show revisions in balloons

Popular File Format Conversion 

API allows quick, reliable & high-quality conversion from any supported file format to another with just two lines of code. It is that simple!

Save the document in different formats - C#

// load the file to be converted

var wrdf = new Aspose.Words.Document(dir + "template.doc");

// save in different formats

wrdf.Save(dir + "output.docx", Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Docx);

wrdf.Save(dir + "output.pdf", Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Pdf);

wrdf.Save(dir + "output.html", Aspose.Words.SaveFormat.Html);

 

 Render, Print or View Word Files

Aspose.Words for .NET has its own rendering engine specially designed for rendering & printing with the highest of fidelity to the Microsoft Word. Using this feature, developers can render (draw) any page onto a .NET Graphics object while setting the size and zoom level to create thumbnails for displaying images in the browser. Moreover, API is fully integrated with the .NET printing infrastructure and have the ability to completely customize the process, so that developers can easily print or preview documents within their own applications

Few of the rendering capabilities that API can perform

• Render pages or full documents to PDF, XPS or SWF.
• Document pages to images including but limited to PNG, EMF, JPEG, GIF.
• Individual document shapes into raster or vector images.
• Render pages or shapes to a .NET Graphics object with transforms.

Programming with Document Object Model

Aspose.Words for .NET allow you to create, build, and modify documents - including document formatting with an intuitive document object model that consists of over 100 classes. Some of the manipulations feature that API can perform

• Manipulate all elements including but not limited to sections, headers, footers, paragraphs, lists, tables, text, fields, and much more.
• Specify detailed formatting for any element including shapes, text boxes, images, OLE objects, and controls.
• API can easily deal complex and deeply nested expressions containing IF blocks, formulas, and other fields.
• Provides utility features such as joining or splitting, copying fragments between documents, protecting and unprotecting files, and a lot more.

Reporting & Mail Merge

Aspose.Words for .NET provides LINQ Reporting Engine to generate documents based upon template documents and data from different sources including databases, XML, JSON, OData, objects of custom CLR types, external documents, and more out of the box. API's Reporting Engine supports

• Repeatable and conditional document blocks.
• Dynamically generated charts and images.
• Insertion of outer documents and HTML blocks into a document.
• Various types of data sources for the creation of a single file.
• Built-in support of data relations.
• WYSIWYG generated file as of the corresponding template.

Additionally, developers can use API's extended syntax for mail merge fields to perform more complex operations during mail merge operations such as inserting images or repeatable regions. The data to drive your reports or mail merges can come from an ADO.NET data table, business objects, or from a completely custom data source.

Execute simple mail merge - C#

// load the template containing merged fields

var wfle = new Aspose.Words.Document(dir + "template.doc");

// fill the fields with user data

wfle.MailMerge.Execute(

    new string[] { "FullName", "Company", "Deparment", "City" },

    new object[] { "John Doe", "Aspose", "Sales", "London" });

// save the result

wfle.Save(dir + "merged.doc");