TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms is a royalty-free, fully programmable rich edit control that offers developers a broad range of word processing features in a reusable component for Visual Studio. It provides comprehensive text formatting, powerful mail merge features and all word processing key concepts such as table support, images, headers and footers and page sections. Add comprehensive WYSIWYG word processing to your own applications with in minutes.

Reporting and Mail Merge

Text Control Reporting combines the power of a reporting tool and an easy-to-use WYSIWYG word processor - fully programmable and embeddable in your Windows Forms application.

Based on MS Word compatible report templates, mail merge and table reports, master-detail, side-by-side and sub-reports can be created. Nested repeating blocks with master-detail relationship views can be easily inserted. It doesn't matter what's repeated in the block: A table row, paragraphs, images or text frames. There are no limits. Data sources can be hierarchical data such as related DataTables, DataSets and all kinds of IEnumerable objects.



Import Adobe PDF Documents

TX Text Control is able to import "born digital" PDF documents, so that you can view, edit or convert these files. The PDF document is imported and can be modified just like any other format such as DOC or DOCX. The fully featured API can be used to change the content or to search on the document.

Import and edit PDF files for which the original word processing source files are missing and reuse its content.

MS Word Compatible File Formats

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms supports a wide range of word processing formats (RTF, DOC, DOCX, HTML, XML, PDF) and image file formats (GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP, WMF, EMF, TIF).

Convert and modify different document types to a standardized style or merge various document types into one unified document. Provide your users an option to modify MS Word documents and to create Adobe PDF documents right in your application.

Page Section Support

Documents can be divided into an unlimited number of different sections, each one of which may be individually formatted. TX Text Control is shipped with a dialog box that can be used to manipulate the section settings.

Sections enables users to create documents with mixed page orientation, so that parts are inserted as portrait and other parts as landscape. It is possible to add different headers and footers to specific sections or you can include page numbering only for the main part of a document and omit it in an appendix.

Add Page Columns to your Documents

Any number of columns can be inserted into one document. Page columns can be enabled per section or for the whole document. All aspects of the columns can be set with the shipped dialog box.

Background Images

Position images in front or behind the text or add transparent text frames on top of images. All types of images are supported:
WMF, EMF, BMP, GIF, TIF, PNG and JPG.

Additionally, images can be added from a .NET System.Drawing.Image object directly.

Headers and Footers

Different headers and footers can be inserted of each available page section of the document. Users can add a different first page header and footer, odd and even headers and footers and page numbers for each individual header and footer.

2D and 3D Charting Support

Powerful data visualization in a report or any other documents is essential to get the "big picture". Charts indicate trends and can be used to attractively visualize large volumes of data.

You can choose from over 30 diagram types and merge them automatically with your data using the included Text Control Reporting engine.

1D and 2D Barcode Support

1D and 2D barcodes make the reporting solution complete. Text Control Reporting can be easily used to create invoices, sales sheets and delivery notes with industry standard barcodes to connect the digital world and the paper-oriented world.

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms supports 20 barcode type objects from the optional available product TX Barcode .NET.

Spell Checking Support

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms supports the optional spell checking engine TX Spell .NET. Using TX Spell .NET for Windows Forms you can add extremely fast, highly reliable and very accurate spell checking to your TX Text Control based applications. Words that are not in the selected or user dictionaries are underlined using wavy red lines.

Using the integrated dialog box, you can see which words are incorrectly spelled, replace the word with one of the suggestions, ignore the spelling mistake just this once, or ignore it completely.

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