New Features:

• Office Open XML (OOXML) File Support. The WordTemplate object now supports .docx and .docm files with all their new features including: Support for new themes, styles and table formatting options, Support for new shapes, charts and diagrams
• IF field evaluation
• Office 2007 templates in Excel and Word
• All re-written in C#. No more dependency on J# run-time
• Processing large binary Word files is up to 6 times faster with WordApplication and 35% faster with WordTemplate
• Processing large files or importing data with WordTemplate uses 40 times less memory with OOXML files (.docx and .docm)
• HTMLtoWord (new open source project for importing HTML-formatted text into WordWriter documents)
• Generate mailing labels easily with the new EnableNextFields property
• Use the new SetMailMerge() method to perform mail merges that closely match Microsoft Word mail merge functionality

New Features in Reporting Services Integration:

• Office Open XML (OOXML) File Support. OfficeWriter Reporting Services integration now supports ..xlsx and docx files
• No Dependence on the J# Redistributable: OfficeWriter version 4 is now completely implemented using only C#
• Our designer now supports the embedding of Excel and Word within reports for SQL Server Reporting Services releases up to SQL Server 2008
• OfficeWriter Reporting Services integration now supports RDLs edited in Visual Studio 2008
• OfficeWriter Reporting Services includes support now for the new SharePoint integration mode in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
• When a user attempts to connect to a report server with forms authentication, he or she will be prompted to enter a username and a password
• Support for Report Model data sources and Report Builder 2.0
• Enabling of Office Writer for Reporting Services properties from the web.config file of the report server application
• Our Word designer now provides the ability to insert images
• Shared DataSources are now preserved when publishing the report from OfficeWriter Designer
• OfficeWriter renderers now access the original value in order to preserve the underlying data type.

Word Reporting

• New features
  • WordTemplate can now evaluate IF fields on the server using the new UpdateIfFields property

• Issues resolved
  • Merged documents containing shapes and floating images caused Word to crash
  • Section formatting was not preserved properly in merged documents
  • Table formatting was not preserved properly in merged documents
  • Some merged documents had incorrect font formatting
  • Watermark inserted with WordApplication did not take effect
  • Accessing headers/footers in a document with multiple sections removed existing header/footer content
    

Reporting Services Integration

• New features
  • Support for SQL 2008
  • Support for RDL generated in Visual Studio 2008 and Report Builder 2.0
  • Support for Reporting Services in SharePoint integration mode. See this KB article: http://support.softartisans.com/kbview.aspx?ID=1278
  • Support for Forms Authentication
  • Support for Report Model data sources
  • Ability to enable certain WordWriter properties when using OfficeWriter in Reporting Services, including processing NEXT fields and IF fields.
    The following keys must be added to web.config to turn on these settings:
    <appSettings>
    <add key="EnableNextFields" value="True" />
    <add key="UpdateIfFields" value="True" />
    </appSettings>

• Issues resolved
  • Word reports with merge fields in the header or footer that were not also in the main body of the document threw exception "This merge field is used in the source template, but it doesn't exist in the data source"
    

New Feature:

• 64-bit support
• IIS 7.0 support
• HtmlToWord - New open source project for importing HTML-formatted text into WordWriter documents
• Improved generation of mailing labels with new EnableNextFields property
• New SetMailMerge method provides an additional mail merge option that more closely matches MS Word mail merge functionality. SetMailMerge treats the entire page as a repeat block without requiring the addition of bookmarks, allowing reuse of existing MS Word mail merge templates.

Issues Addressed:

• Document properties NumCharacters, NumWords and NumParagraphs incorrectly returned 0.
• Table.AddRows and Table.InsertRows shifted cells to the right
• Row inserted in nested table had incorrect formatting
• Inserting tables into table cells sometimes caused corrupt documents
• Table inserted in table cell was too wide
• Lists and paragraphs inserted into existing table cells sometimes resulted in incorrect formatting or corrupted files
• Some elements inserted after a table appeared as if inside a table cell.
• Adding a watermark to a document caused corruption of character formatting and tables
• Documents created with certain fonts threw an exception. WordWriter now supports more font types
• Calling hyperlink.GetUrlString() on an existing hyperlink in a Word document caused an exception
• Adding a watermark caused corruption of character formatting and tables
• Adding watermark to certain files caused NullPointerException
• Footnotes were not preserved when copying one document into another
• Header and footer missing after opening and saving a document with an image in the header with WordApplication
• Daylight Savings Time issue with .NET 2.0 on Windows 2003

New Feature in Reporting Services Integration:

• 64-bit support
• Support for SQL Server 2008 CTP6. The OfficeWriter Designer will work with any version of SQL Server up to the most recent CTP of SQL Server 2008 (CTP6 - February 2008). To get the special builds of the OfficeWriter renderers for CTP6, contact SoftArtisans.
• Ability to insert images with Word designer

Issues Resolved in Reporting Services Integration:

• Shared DataSources are now preserved when publishing report from OfficeWriter Designer.
• If a user added and then removed a bookmark with the OfficeWriter Designer Word Add-In, a link to the Selection Query data source was left in the RDL, causing a runtime error "The following bookmark can't be found in the template."
• Values were inserted as strings. The OfficeWriter renderers now access the original value in order to preserve the underlying data type.
  

Issues Addressed:

• In .NET 2.0, attempting to insert a JPG with the WordTemplate object failed with the error: "Mismatching types for source and destination arrays"
• In .NET 2.0, performance problems when reading text from a document with the WordApplication object
• InsertTextAfter method didn’t work properly for new rows created with Table.InsertRows
• Merge field syntax error (‘Error parsing datamarker') received even though the merge field was already corrected. Caused by hidden change information stored in the Word file. WordTemplate now ignores mergefield strings which cannot be parsed
• Improved handling of ordinal modifier in merge fields
• MS Word 2000 threw error when cursor hovered over button in document generated by WordTemplate
• IndexOutOfBoundsException when merging certain documents with WordApplication.
• Default style of generated document was Header instead of Normal
• NumColumns property did not handle tables whose rows contain variable numbers of columns. Removed property Table.NumColumns and replaced it with a method that takes the row as a parameter - Table.GetNumColumns(row). Note: This causes a backwards compatability issue between 3.8.1 and previous versions. Learn more: http://support.softartisans.com/kbview.aspx?ID=1232
  

New Feature:

• Added support for ADOMD DataReader as a data source

Issues Addressed:

• Rows not lined up correctly in tables inserted with WordApplication object
• Mergefield.GetFieldName threw exception or did not return correct merge field name
• WordApplication.Open did not explicitly release the handle on the input stream
• Error occured when opening document containing text boxes
• Corrupt output file generated from certain complex template containing many images
• WordTemplate did not preserve “ordinal” formatting modifier of merge fields
• SetWatermark didn’t work properly in version 3.6.1

Issues Addressed with SQL Server Reporting Services

• OfficeWriter Designer installer did not detect Office 2007
• An error when viewing report was created by OfficeWriter Designer in Office 2007
• The Publish Button did not work after template converted to Office 2007
  

New Feature:

• Added AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute to the WordWriter .NET assembly so that it can be called from partially trusted code

Issues Addressed:

• WordTemplate generated incorrectly formatted output file when processing a complex template with multiple sections
• Unable to access child elements of Field and MergeField elements
• Incorrect version number in type library description for WordWriter COM
• When attempting to install OfficeWriter Reporting Services integration, Installer fails to detect Reporting Services installation
  

Issues Addressed:

• SetPageOrientation property did not work correctly
• Formatting was not applied properly to non-ascii characters
• Files created from templates containing certain Word 2003 features could be opened but not saved in Microsoft Word
• MergeField.GetFieldName() generated error or returned extra characters

Issue Addressed:

Windows® Version

• WordTemplate.Save streaming option failed in ASP on machine with .NET 2.0 installed
  

Issues Addressed:

• Changed method signatures for SetDataSource and SetRepeatBlock
  • Removed overloads for IEnumerable
  • Added overloads for IEnumerator and ICollections

Issue Addressed:

Windows® Version

• Automatic installation of Reporting Services Integration fails for SQL Server 2000
  

New Features:

• Table API expanded to allow inserting/deleting columns and merging cells.
• WordTemplate accepts Collections as a DataSource
• Search and Replace functionality with support for regular expressions.
• Ability to Copy and Paste within documents and from one document to another.
• Watermark object for inserting and manipulating watermarks
• Ability to pass documents from WordTemplate to WordApplication object
• TwipsConverter class contains helper functions for converting between inches/centimeters/points and twips
• SetDataSource() overload that takes an object, for binding single values to merge fields
• Support for preset paper sizes with the new Section.PageSize property

Issues Addressed:

• StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when retrieving text
• Text with accents not picking up font when inserted using InsertTextAfter()
• Deleting outer bookmarks caused error
  

Issues Addressed:

• In some cases, retrieving a merge field name with MergeField.FieldName produced an error
• Attempting to retrieve a non-existent bookmark caused errors
• An error occurred when opening using WordTemplate to open a document with deleted sections

Issue Addressed:

Windows® Version

• Could not create an instance of SoftArtisans.WordTemplate in ASP
  

New Feature:

• Ability to access document variables

Issue Addressed:

• Standard Edition license key did not unlock WordTemplate's image insertion functionality

Issues Addressed:

• Nesting a 1x1 table within an outer table cell now produces expected results
• Inserting successive tables with WordApplication no longer throws an "Index Out of Bounds" exception
• Bookmark does not expand when rows are added to a table containing a single row
  

New Features:

• New Application Object – Full runtime manipulation of the Word file format
• Create, modify, and delete Word features, including
  • Characters
  • Paragraphs
  • Sections
  • Tables
  • Lists
  • Fields
  • Document Properties
    

New Features:

• New DataSourceSeparator property allows you to change the character used to separate data source and column name in a merge field
• Full merge field syntax in a repeat block is now supported.

Issues Addressed:

• Installer failed with 2005 system dates
• Some jpg images were imported as flat lines
• When the SetDataSource method was used with the name parameter, and the template contained short merge fields, an error occurred
• An error occurred when processing a Word 2003 template with an image placeholder in a merge field
• In some cases, calling Save more than once corrupted the generated Word document
• In Reporting Services Edition, incorrect rendering extension names were displayed in Reporting Services Report Manager. "SA Word Template export filter" was replaced with "Word (.doc) designed by OfficeWriter" and "SA Excel Template export filter" was replaced with "Excel (.xls) designed by OfficeWriter."
  

New Features:

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
• Support for multiple data sources in the main document
• Insertion of images from database or an array of bytes*
• Improved field marker syntax:
• Field lookup from repeat block to non-repeat block data sources
• A field can now be marked optional, using the "optional" modifier
• Ordinals can be used to reference fields and data sources
• Field marker and boomark collections
• Improved performance

*Available in Enterprise Edition Only

Issue Addressed:

• COM wrapper throws an exception when an array of column names is passed to SetRepeatBlock method
  

Issues Addressed:

• Handling of the dbNull fields
• Improved error messages
  

New Features:

• Multiple Data Sources: SetRepeatBlock method allows you to set multiple data sources for a single template*
• Multiple Rows Inserted from Data Sources: SetRepeatBlock method allows you to import multiple-row data sources to a template*
• Support for DataReader as a Data Source
• Selected document fragment will be repeated with each row inserted from the data source
• Tables, bulleted lists, and numbered lists will grow with every row inserted
• Content Type can be set programmatically
• New Properties: ContentType, LicenseKey, DocumentsCreatedToday, Version

*Available in Enterprise Edition Only

New Features:

• GetVersion method returns a string containing the product name, edition, version, expiration date, and build stamp
• WordWriter Developer Edition is now available. The developer edition offers the same functionality as WordWriter, but generates only one Word file at a time
• Executing the license and product jar files via the following commands will now print out the product's name, version, edition, expiration date, and build stamp:
  • java -jar WordWriter-v1.1.1.jar
  • java -jar WordWriter-v1-License.jar

Issues Addressed:

• Support for Oracle CLOB and NCLOB data types now available
• Support for inserting large strings (>16 kb) in template merge fields
• VBA macros and embedded documents are now preserved properly in generated Word files