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Aspose.Newsletter: February 2008 edition with technical tip for using Aspose.Words for .NET/Java with PHP.

Welcome to the February 2008 issue of the Aspose Newsletter! In this month’s newsletter, we will provide some introductory information about our spotlight product: Aspose.Flash. We will also look at the new and exciting features offered in the recent releases of Aspose.Network, Aspose.Pdf.Kit, Aspose.Words and Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services. You will learn about the latest news from Aspose along with the monthly Tech-Tip, which demonstrates how you can use Aspose.Words with PHP.

Product Spotlight

Developers using Flash® content in conjunction with the powerful .NET framework have the ability to produce some of the highest quality, feature rich sites today. Aspose.Flash helps to extend the potential of that powerful combination even further. Aspose.Flash is a non-graphical, .NET Flash® management component. With Aspose.Flash developers can dynamically manipulate and generate Flash® content directly from their .NET applications. Aspose.Flash is written in native C# and is lightening fast. Take the time to download the free evaluation version today to see how Aspose.Flash can work for you.

Aspose.Network supports SSL for IMAP / POP3 / SMTP

Aspose.Network is a complete solution for network programming on the .NET platform. The latest version 3.8.0.0 of Aspose.Network for .NET has been released. This is a major release containing SSL support for IMAP and POP3. SSL support for SMTP was added in the 3.7.0.0 release earlier. Aspose.Network now supports using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the connection (POP3/IMAP). Aspose.Network.Mail also supports sending email via SSL over SMTP protocol. Implicit / Explicit Security mode is also supported in SSL over SMTP/IMAP/POP3. In addition Aspose.Network.Ftp now supports parsing VAS/VMS format item list and Aspose.Network.Pop3 includes support for 3 types of authentication. Also included in this release are numerous bug fixes and improvements. For more information about the 3.8.0.0 release and to download the latest version please refer to the description found here. For more information about the 3.7.0.0 release please consult the official release page.

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 2.7.0.0 released

Aspose.Pdf.Kit for .NET 2.7.0.0 has been released. This new release supports creating bookmarks for all pages as well as creating nested bookmarks. Support for exchanging bookmarks of XML and extracting bookmarks to HTML has also been added. In addition a new method is added for disposing Form fields more flexibly, and a set of new methods and properties have been added in PdfViewer for printing large PDF files more efficiently. This release also includes many improvements and numerous bug fixes. The latest version can be downloaded from here. For more details, please visit its official release page.

Exporting to DOCX with Aspose.Words for Java

The latest version 2.4.0.0 of Aspose.Words for Java has been released. With this release Aspose.Words for Java now supports exporting to Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX) format. The set of DOCX features supported by Aspose.Words is comprehensive. Only a few limitations are applicable in the current version. The latest version can be downloaded from here. For more information about this release please consult the official release page.

Aspose.Words OOXML import soon to come out of beta

We have been working hard to provide great support for Office Open XML in Aspose.Words. In this regard there have been three major releases which can be considered as milestones. These include Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.0.0 which included support for exporting to Microsoft Office 2007 Open XML (DOCX), Aspose.Words for .NET 4.4.1.0 with beta support for import of DOCX files and Aspose.Words for Java 2.4.0.0 with support for exporting to DOCX. Import of DOCX files is still in Beta, but we are successfully finalizing it. A production release is planned soon. We have also created a detailed Aspose.Words to OOXML conformance specification which can be found here. For more information please consult this post.

Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 1.1.0.0 released

We have released Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services version 1.1.0.0. In this release we provide a client add-in tool, Aspose.Cells Report Designer, which allows users to use MS Excel as a report design tool. With Aspose.Cells Report Designer users can design a report template in Excel instead of Visual Studio or other report builder tool. The report template is embedded in Reporting Services RDL file and can be published to Report Server. It makes report design an easy and fast task. Also in this release the Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services server render is greatly enhanced. Working with the report template, users can utilize all advanced Excel features in Reporting Services, including native Excel charts, advanced formulas, pivot tables and more. Numerous other improvements and bug fixes have also been included. Please download this latest release from here.

Technical Tip – Using Aspose.Words with PHP

Aspose.Words for .NET and Aspose.Words for Java can both be used with PHP.

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Aspose.Workflow: Manage workflow applications for automating business processes

Aspose.Workflow for .NET - 1.3.0.0 Released

Aspose.Workflow is a .NET component which helps managing workflow applications for automating business processes. It provides a powerful workflow engine along with a full set of industry standard workflow objects. It helps to design business processes in GUI mode. Other useful features like join/split activity, package/process variables, user/group management, participant mapping and WFMC standards for XPDL & WF-XML are also supported. It further supports Microsoft Access, SQL Server and Oracle.

General Features

• WFMC XPDL 1.0 schema is supported
• Supports full validation of XPDL elements like Package, Process and Activity etc.
• Export or import XML file in XPDL format
• Supports Package/Process level variables
• Normal activity (automatic,manual) is supported
• Supports Join/Split activity
• Calling external application/ToolAgent is supported
• User or Group Management and participant mapping is supported
• Supports user based worklist or task management
• Supports Microsoft Access 2000 or greater
• Supports Microsoft SQLServer 2000/2003 or greater
• Supports Oracle 9i or greater

- Download evaluation version of Aspose.Workflow for .NET.
- Receive notifications about latest news and supported features by subscribing to Aspose.Workflow for .NET blog.
- Online documentation of Aspose.Workflow for .NET.
- Demos of Aspose.Workflow for .NET.
- Post your technical questions/queries to Aspose.Workflow for .NET Forum.

Contact Information
Suite 119, 272 Victoria Avenue
Chatswood, NSW, 2067
Australia
Aspose - The .NET and Java component publisher
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.94651

 

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SSL support for SMTP, POP3 & IMAP Protocols is provided by Aspose.Network for .NET

Aspose.Network is a suite of .NET components for network programming with support for .NET logging framework, Microsoft Exchange Server and allows parsing an Outlook document with drag & drop feature. It provides SSL support for SMTP, POP3 & IMAP protocols with other mail merge features and sending bulk emails. You can import & export emails in MHT & EML formats. It supports all the useful features of SMTP, MIME, POP3, FTP, WhoIs, DNS, ICMP, IMAP, HTTP, SOCKS 4/4A and SOCKS 5 components.

General Features

- Supports all kinds of .NET applications
- Full support for asynchronous programming style

Mail Component Features

- Quick send emails in one line code
- Create and send emails through Smtp Server or mail exchange server
- Attach embedded objects and attachments to emails
- Text/Html mail body
- Mailmerge for creating mail from a template
- Bulk send emails
- Send iCalendar compliant appoints/meetings
- Cutomerized mail headers

Pop3 Component Features

- Login Pop3 server by User/Password, APOP authentication
- View mailbox size, messages count
- Retrieve full message or header only
- Delete messages from server
- Basic Pop3 commands

IMAP Component Features

- Authentications
- Create/Delete/Select/Query folders
- Get/Delete/Save messages
- Change message flags
- Basic Imap commands

MIME Component Features

- Read email from file or memory (*.eml)
- Extracts email headers and bodies
- Retrieve attachments and embedded objects

FTP Component Features

- Create/Rename/Delete/List remote directories
- File download/ upload
- Broken file transfer resume
- Passive/Active mode connection
- TransferProgress, TransferBroken events
- Basic Ftp commands

DNS Component Features

- Resolve Domain Names
- Query A/MX/NS Records
- Send others resource record querying

ICMP Component Features

- Ping function
- Send and receive network management message

Proxy Component Features

- Penetrate Http proxy
- Penetrate Socks5 proxy
- Penetrate Socks4 proxy
- Penetrate Socks4A proxy
- Provide the ProxyClient class to wrapper the penetrating proxies

Verify Component Features

- Email Address validation
- Address syntax, domain name and MX records validations

WhoIs Component Features

- Query domain info from the WhoIs servers

-> Download evaluation version of Aspose.Network for .NET.
-> Receive notifications about latest news and supported features by subscribing to Aspose.Network for .NET blog.
-> Online documentation of Aspose.Network for .NET.
-> Demos of Aspose.Network for .NET.
-> Post your technical questions/queries to Aspose.Network for .NET Forum.

Contact Information
Suite 119, 272 Victoria Avenue
Chatswood, NSW, 2067
Australia
Aspose - The .NET and Java component publisher
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 888.277.6734
Fax: 866.810.94651