Developer Product Briefs

Dotfuscator, PDF Suite 3.0, More

Learn about the latest and greatest products available from vendors that provide tools and services for Visual Studio .NET.

• By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
• 07/01/2007

Dotfuscator Community Edition Enhanced
PreEmptive Solutions has announced the immediate availability of a no-fee upgrade to Dotfuscator Community Edition (CE) offering deep Visual Studio integration. Dotfuscator Community Edition helps developers protect their deployed applications from reverse engineering. Features included with Dotfuscator CE Enhanced include the ability to configure Dotfuscator CE from within Visual Studio for an improved user experience; obfuscate from within a Visual Studio build to streamline and further automate the software development lifecycle; export Dotfuscator CE project outputs to deployment projects within Visual Studio to improve quality, resolve dependencies, and simplify the build process; and the ability to integrate Dotfuscator CE configuration files into Visual Studio source files to improve quality and control over the obfuscation process. This free upgrade is available immediately for all users of the English Language version of Dotfuscator CE and can be downloaded from www.preemptive.com/enhanced.html.
PreEmptive Solutions
Web: www.preemptive.com
Phone: +1 216 732 5895

PDF Suite v3.0 for .NET
Amyuni Technologies has recently released PDF Suite v3.0 for .NET that combines all the functionality and features of PDF Converter and PDF Creator .NET in one product. PDF Converter is a tool for converting any Windows application document to PDF format. PDF Creator is designed to create new documents, forms, and reports or edit documents already in PDF format. PDF Suite .NET doesn't rely on external libraries such as Ghostscript. New features in v3.0 include support for loading XPS documents and exporting documents into XPS format; support for loading FDF documents that contain data associated with a main PDF document; support for loading documents containing JBIG2 and JPEG2000 compressed images; the ability to create structured PDF documents as defined by the PDF specifications; the ability to create PDFs that comply with the PDF/A ISO Standard; and Unicode and CID font embedding that enable support for a wider range of fonts, including Asiatic fonts. Major features in PDF Converter include support for the Vista operating system; the ability to convert any document into PDF format using the PDF Converter virtual printer driver; automated and easy installation of the PDF printer on the end-user's system without any user intervention; and the ability to operate in multi-threaded environments and with service applications under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. .NET interface classes allow the developer to automate the conversion process by setting the output file name and various other options without user interaction, as well as intercept various events sent by the PDF printer when documents are generated. Developers can also modify the user interface language dynamically (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese). PDF Creator main features include the ability to view, edit, annotate and print PDF documents; the ability to fill out and create PDF forms, documents and reports; the ability to edit and print PDF documents programmatically without any user interaction; and support for various types of form objects and annotations such as edit-fields, check-boxes, sticky-notes, highlighters, and more. The professional version of PDF Suite provides the following security features: PDF documents can be secured using either 40-bit or 128-bit encryption algorithms to prevent them from being viewed, modified, or even printed; and PDF documents can be digitally signed using any valid certificate installed on the end-user's system. Cost per Developer License $599.00 US, cost per Runtime License $999.00 US.
Amyuni Technologies
Web: www.amyuni.com
Phone: 514-868-9226

Studio Enterprise 2007 v1.5
ComponentOne Europe has released Studio Enterprise 2007 v1.5, complete with ComponentOne Ribbon for .NET. Studio Enterprise 2007 v1.5 is a component toolset for Windows, Web, Mobile, and ASP.NET AJAX enabled applications. This new release provides Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon and Status Bar functionality to .NET Windows Forms applications by introducing two new components; C1Ribbon and C1StatusBar. Ribbon for .NET enables developers to build Windows Forms applications in the Office 2007 style including the Blue, Black, and Silver themes. Ribbon for .NET includes features and elements of the Office 2007 style ribbon including the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), QAT docking, Galleries, Resizing Support, Tooltip Support, and more. The new SmartDesigners for Ribbon for .NET allow developers to quickly and easily build a ribbon, add ribbon elements like tabs and groups, load ribbon templates, and apply ribbon styles at design time without writing a line of code. Studio Enterprise offers more than 200 components for .NET, ASP.NET, Mobile, and ActiveX and includes a subscription that provides customers with new releases, updates, upgrades, and online support for one full year. Price: £625.00. Current ComponentOne customers can upgrade to Studio Enterprise for £470.00.
ComponentOne
Web: www.componentone.com or www.componentone.co.uk
Phone: 800.858.2739 or 412.681.4343; outside the U.S.A. ComponentOne Europe: 0800 328 5271 or +44 (0) 1460 234636

XMLSpy 2007 Release 3
Altova has announced XMLSpy 2007 Release 3 with support for the ECMA Office Open XML File Formats, which are the new open standards utilized by the 2007 Microsoft Office system. With support for the ECMA formats, XMLSpy users can extract, edit, query, and transform XML data from within Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Microsoft Office Excel 2007 documents. XMLSpy provides full validation of data in the Open XML file type, intelligent entry helpers, and support for the development of XSLT and XQuery transformations for publishing or utilizing the data in other applications. With support for the Open XML Formats in XMLSpy 2007r3, XMLSpy lets users create an XSLT 2.0 transformation to publish data in Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Excel 2007 documents for use on the Web or a corporate intranet; use XQuery to extract and aggregate financial data from Microsoft Office Excel 2007 documents into an XML form for mapping to Web services, EDI messages, and so on; and manually edit Open XML data and then save it back to a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document to test the outcome of changes that will be made in an application under development. In addition to extracting and processing Office Open XML data in XMLSpy, developers can use the royalty-free AltovaXML engine to access data from 2007 Microsoft Office documents and execute XSLT and XQuery transformations on it in their own applications. Price: $999. A 30-day free trial of XMLSpy 2007 is available at www.altova.com/download/xmlspy/xml_editor_enterprise.html.
Altova
Web: www.altova.com
Phone: US 978-816-1600; Europe +43 (1) 545 5155 – 0