Editions and Features — TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms

TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms comes in three editions: Enterprise, Professional and the free Express edition. They share the editor and its programming interface and differ in the features and file formats they include, so the edition you license decides which pages of this documentation apply to your application. Compare them below before you choose one, or when a feature does not behave as described.

The Editions

Edition	For
Enterprise	Commercial applications that need the complete feature set, including PDF/A, PDF/UA, form fields, footnotes, tables of contents and XML
Professional	Commercial applications with Word formats, PDF, mail merge and reporting, the ribbon and track changes
Express	Private and non-commercial applications that need a rich text editor. Free of charge.
Trial	Evaluating the fully featured product for 30 days before you buy it

Enterprise and Professional are installed with the same setup file, and the NuGet package TXTextControl.TextControl.WinForms.SDK is also the same for both. Choose the Setup names the setup files of all editions.
Express and the trial version come with terms of their own: Express for private and non-commercial use only, the trial for evaluation and testing only. Trial Version and Express Edition explains what each allows.

Features by Edition

The following features differ between the editions, as listed in Text Control's feature comparison for version 34.0:

Feature	Enterprise	Professional	Express
Headers and footers, document sections, page columns	Yes	Yes	No
Text frames, drawings and shapes	Yes	Yes	No
Hypertext links	Yes	Yes	No
1D and 2D barcodes	Yes	Yes	No
Comments and track changes	Yes	Yes	No
Document protection	Yes	Yes	No
Excel formulas in tables	Yes	Yes	No
Merge fields, reporting and mail merge, Data Source Manager	Yes	Yes	No
Ribbon control	Yes	Yes	No
Page rendering engine	Yes	Yes	No
Footnotes	Yes	No	No
Form fields	Yes	No	No
Table of contents	Yes	No	No
Stylesheet programming	Yes	No	No
XML programming	Yes	No	No
Stylesheet formatting	Yes	Partly	Partly

All three editions include the core of the editor:

Character and paragraph formatting, bullets and numbered lists, tables and table headers, and images
Page and document settings, zooming, and printing with print preview
Clipboard operations, search and replace, and multi-level undo and redo
The built-in dialog boxes and the toolbars
Marked text fields, data binding, and loading from and saving to databases
Unicode, multi-language support and a 64-bit version

Spell checking is marked as partly supported in all three editions. The spelling features of the editor work with TX Spell .NET, a separate product, through the SpellChecker property of TextControl.

File Formats by Edition

Format	Enterprise	Professional	Express
RTF and HTML	Yes	Yes	Yes
DOCX and DOC	Yes	Yes	No
XLSX	Yes	Yes	No
PDF export and import	Yes	Yes	No
PDF/A (PDF/A-3a and PDF/A-3b)	Yes	No	No
PDF/UA (accessible PDF)	Yes	No	No
XML, DTD and CSS	Yes	No	No
Markdown	Yes	No	No

Supported File Formats lists every format with the values you pass to Load and Save.

Check the Edition at Run Time

TextControl.GetVersionInfo returns a VersionInfo object, and its Level property tells you which edition is installed. The reference documents this property as ProductLevel, the name of its type, but in code it is Level:

using TXTextControl;

// Show the installed edition, for example "Enterprise"
VersionInfo versionInfo = textControl1.GetVersionInfo();
MessageBox.Show(versionInfo.Level.ToString());

The property returns a value of VersionInfo.ProductLevel: Enterprise, Professional or Trial, or Standard for the Express edition.

Editions and Feature Availability

The Editions

Features by Edition

File Formats by Edition

Check the Edition at Run Time

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