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Create MS Project Files Programmatically in C# or VB.NET

Microsoft Project is a popular project management software that makes it easier for project managers to efficiently manage the projects. It lets the managers create tasks and resources, assign tasks to resources, track the project’s progress, manage the budget, and perform other project-related operations. In order to create and manage MS Project files programmatically, Microsoft provides MS Office Automation. However, along with other deficiencies, it requires you to install MS Office.
May 5, 2020 · 4 min · Usman Aziz

Create, Parse and Validate XBRL and iXBRL Financial Reports using C#

This article provides information about business reporting using the XBRL standard, the purpose of XBRL, and how to automate the process of creating XBRL-based business reports in .NET applications. Furthermore, it contains step by step methods to parse XBRL and iXBRL files and retrieve data programmatically using C#.
April 29, 2020 · 4 min · Usman Aziz

Encrypt and Decrypt PDF Files using C#

PDF encryption is used to secure the PDF document from unauthorized access. If a PDF document is encrypted, you have to decrypt it to access its content, otherwise, it will remain unreadable. Most often, the PDF documents are encrypted with a password that is required to open the document. On the other hand, you can also limit the access permissions to various operations such as printing, editing, copying, etc. Aspose’ PDF library, Aspose.
April 28, 2020 · 4 min · Usman Aziz

Extract ZIP Archives Programmatically in C#

If you are looking for a way of extracting ZIP archives programmatically, this article is going to give you the easiest solution. It will demonstrate how to extract ZIP archives using C# in a few simple steps. In the previous article, you have learned different ways of creating ZIP files and folders using Aspose.ZIP for .NET. This article will cover how to extract ZIP files and unzip password-protected or AES encrypted ZIP archives in C#.
April 23, 2020 · 3 min · Usman Aziz

Add Files or Folders to ZIP Archives Programmatically in C#

The ZIP archives are used to compress and keep one or more files or folders into a single container. A ZIP archive encapsulates the files and folders as well as holds their metadata information. The most common usage of archiving is reducing the size of the files for storage or transmission and applying encryption for security. Apart from the file compression tools, the automated compression/extraction features are also used within various desktop and web applications for uploading, downloading, sharing, or encrypting the files.
April 22, 2020 · 5 min · Usman Aziz

Extract Text from PDF Documents Programmatically using C++

Text extraction from documents (PDF, word processing, web pages, etc.) has a variety of use cases in the world of digital information. For example, it can be used for parsing documents, performing text analysis, information retrieval, storing documents’ content into databases, and so on. If we narrow it down, PDF is one of the most widely used document formats to keep and share digital information. This popularity makes PDF documents a huge source of information.
April 21, 2020 · 3 min · Usman Aziz

Create MS Word Editor in ASP.NET MVC

Aspose.Words for .NET provides a complete set of features for manipulating and converting MS Word documents within a multitude of .NET applications. Particularly, you can create new or edit the existing Word documents within the desktop or web applications. In this post, I’ll show you how to leverage the Word processing capabilities of Aspose.Words for .NET and create a web-based MS Word Editor in ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC Word Editor - Create Word Documents We are going to create an ASP.
April 17, 2020 · 2 min · Usman Aziz

Handle Word Documents in Qt Applications in Visual Studio

In the previous post, I have shown you how to integrate Aspose.Words for C++ in a Qt application using Qt Creator. In this post, we’ll check out how to set up and use Aspose.Words for C++ in Qt using Visual Studio. Later, we will create a Word document within the Qt application. Set Up Aspose.Words for C++ in Qt Application For Qt application development in Visual Studio, I have used the following Visual Studio, Qt and Qt VS Tools versions:
April 15, 2020 · 2 min · Usman Aziz

Create Word Documents in Qt Applications using Aspose.Words for C++

Qt is a popular cross-platform application development framework to develop a variety of applications for desktop, mobile, and embedded systems. C++ based Qt framework uses MOC (Meta-Object Compiler) to generate a standard C++ source from the Qt-extended C++. Since Qt supports a wide range of applications that may target various scenarios, integration of Word automation features (i.e. generating Word documents, Word to PDF, and etc.) within the Qt applications has a big scope.
April 14, 2020 · 3 min · Usman Aziz

Convert Word DOC or DOCX to PDF in C++

Welcome again to the Home of File Format APIs! In the recent past, I have written a couple of blog posts to cover various scenarios of converting Word (DOC/DOCX) to PDF programmatically in .NET (using C#) and Java applications. Since this is a popular and widely used feature, I thought to cover it for C++ as well. Therefore, in this post, I will show you how to convert Word DOC/DOCX to PDF in C++ applications.
April 10, 2020 · 3 min · Usman Aziz