GroupDocs.Assembly 22.2.0

Exact Date Time Parse Formats JSON .NET API

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An on-premise API to generate documents of various formats based on user-defined templates as well as from other data sources, such as XML, OData, JSON, etc.

Document Assembly Processing Features

• Support for multiple data formats.
• Perform sequential data operations.
• Supports upper, lower, capital, first-cap formatting to template syntax strings.
• Apply ordinal, cardinal, alphabetic, numeric formatting in template syntax.
• Use custom variables in the template documents.
• Support for text comments within template syntax tags.
• Dynamically insert document content & hyperlinks in reports.
• Apply attributes to the email message body.
• Dynamically apply email attachments.
• Generate barcode in reports.
• Dynamically set background color of HTML documents.
• Supports formatting of numeric, text, image, date-time, chart elements in the template.
• Apply conditional formatting on template text elements.
• Linq-based template syntax.
• Use explicit specifications or file extensions to change the format of the assembled files.
• Supports the next field analog of Microsoft Word.
• Update fields during word processing document assembly.
• Support for applying formula during spreadsheet file assembly.
• Automatically remove empty paragraphs.
• Generate various report types, such as charts, lists, tables, etc.
• Instead of exception throwing, support for inline template syntax errors in generated docs.
• Load template documents from HTML with resources.
• Save assembled documents to HTML with resources.

What's new in v22.2.0

Support Array Type Identifier in Template Syntax

This API release introduced the support for array type identifiers in template syntax.

Load JSON with Exact Date-Time Parse Formats

Now the Assembly API supports several exact date-time parse formats while loading JSON.

The following code sample shows that while loading JSON how may you make only the strings conforming the format MM/dd/yyyy recognized as the date-time values.

List<String> formats = new List<String>();
formats.Add("MM/dd/yyyy");

JsonDataLoadOptions options = new JsonDataLoadOptions();
options.ExactDateTimeParseFormats = formats;
JsonDataSource dataSource = new JsonDataSource(..., options);

Important Note: Please note that strings conforming the Microsoft® JSON date-time format (for example, /Date(1224043200000)/) are always recognized as date-time values regardless of the exact date-time parse formats.

For a complete list of features, enhancements, and bug fixes in this release please visit, GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 22.2 Release Notes.

Read & Write Microsoft Office Formats

Microsoft Word: DOC, DOT, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM, RTF
Microsoft Excel: XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, XLTM, XLSB, XLS, XLT
Microsoft PowerPoint: PPTX, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, POTX, POTM, PPT, PPS

Read & Write Other Formats

OpenOffice: ODS, ODT, OTT, OTP, ODP, OXPS
Email: EML, MSG, EMLX
Fixed Layout: PDF, XPS
Markup: HTML, MHTML, XML, XAML
Images: TIFF, SVG
eBook: EPUB
PostScript: PS
Printer Control: PCL
Markdown: MD
Text: TXT

Please visit the Supported Document Formats for details.

Platform Independence

GroupDocs.Assembly for .Net can be used to build applications for Windows, Mac OS X x64 as well as Linux x64. Developers may also code in PHP, VBScript, Delphi & C++ programming languages while using GroupDocs.Assembly for .Net via COM Interop.

Get Started

Are you ready to give GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package GroupDocs.Assembly from Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch & reference GroupDocs.Assembly, assembly in your project. If you already have GroupDocs.Assembly for .Net and want to upgrade it, please execute Update-Package GroupDocs.Assembly to get the latest version.

Please check the GitHub Repository for other common usage scenarios.

Generate a DOCX File from Markdown (MD) template via C# Code

//Setting up source document template
const String strDocumentTemplate = "Markdown Templates/ReadMe.md";
//Setting up destination Markdown reports
const String strDocumentReport = "Word Reports/ReadMe Out.docx";
//Setting up description variable
const string description = "GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET is a class library that enables you to generate documents in popular " +
    "office and email file formats based upon template documents and data obtained from various sources " +
    "including databases, XML, JSON, OData, objects of custom .NET types, external documents, and more.";

DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
//Assemble Document
assembler.AssembleDocument(
    CommonUtilities.GetSourceDocument(strDocumentTemplate),
    CommonUtilities.SetDestinationDocument(strDocumentReport),
    new DataSourceInfo("GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET", "product"),
    new DataSourceInfo(description, "description"));
}

Use Spreadsheet as a Data Source to Assemble a Document

string strDocumentTemplate = "Word Templates/Using Spreadsheet as Table of Data.docx";
string strDocumentReport = "Word Reports/Using Spreadsheet as Table of Data_Output.docx";
// Assemble a document using the external document table as a data source.
DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.AssembleDocument(CommonUtilities.GetSourceDocument(strDocumentTemplate),
    CommonUtilities.SetDestinationDocument(strDocumentReport),
    new DataSourceInfo(DataLayer.ExcelData(), "contracts"));

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