Older Versions
In which version did a feature of the Windows Forms TextControl arrive, and what changed in the version your application still uses? Every major version from 29.0 back to 10.1, the oldest version that the What's New documentation covers, has a page with its features, its update notes and its new classes and members. They serve developers who maintain an application built on one of these versions or move it to the current one.
The versions from 30.0 on are described in What's New, together with their service packs, breaking changes and deprecated APIs.
Versions at a Glance
| Version | Released | What it brought |
|---|---|---|
| 29.0 | December 2020 (X19) | Per-monitor DPI awareness, tables of contents, a document settings sidebar, embedded files in PDF, AcroForm import, integrated barcodes |
| 28.0 | March 2020 (X18) | Form fields with a ribbon tab, conditional instructions, DocumentTarget no longer a TextField |
| 27.0 | May 2019 (X17) | High DPI displays, ResourceProvider, UI Automation, highlighting of all text fields |
| 26.0 | November 2018 (X16) | Track changes, sidebars, XLSX import, formulas and number formats in tables, merge block filters and sorting |
| 25.0 | December 2017 (X15) | Document permissions, editable regions, mini toolbars, a thesaurus, objects in headers and footers |
| 24.0 | November 2016 (X14) | Ribbon controls for Windows Forms, colored paragraphs, user-defined document properties, JSON mail merge, typed exceptions |
| 23.0 | December 2015 (X13) | Drawings and shapes, subtext parts, dialog boxes for links, bookmarks and symbols, document properties |
| 22.0 | April 2015 (X12) | New built-in dialog boxes, TIF and GIF export, new ButtonBar properties |
| 21.0 | September 2014 (X11) | Automatic language detection, find and replace, table programming, content control adapter fields |
| 20.0 | November 2013 (X10) | Right-to-left text and user interfaces, hyphenation, multilingual documents |
| 19.0 | April 2013 (X9) | Barcodes in documents, even and odd headers and footers, restarted page numbering, built-in context menus |
| 18.0 | August 2012 (X8) | Charts in documents, z-order, transparent text frames, a new status bar design |
| 17.0 | November 2011 | Merged and named table cells, colored cell borders, page borders, digital signatures |
| 16.0 | November 2010 | Ribbon support, repeated table headers, text parts with a common interface, the TextControl in browser applications |
| 15.1 | December 2009 | Drag and drop, FrameBase for images and text frames, unlimited zoom |
| 15.0 | May 2009 | Page columns, PDF/A, PDF import, structured numbered lists, the Paragraphs collection |
| 14.0 | January 2008 | A 64-bit edition, sections, DOCX, MS Word fields, background printing |
| 13.0 | October 2006 | A vertical ruler bar, hypertext links in PDF, new paragraph formatting, collections for fields and links |
| 12.0 | August 2005 | Text frames, images anchored to paragraphs, the first ServerTextControl |
| 11.0 | April 2004 | Nested tables, Table.Split, multiple undo, a Resource Kit for localization, PDF passwords |
| 10.1 | April 2003 | Formatting styles, InputPosition, lines and characters as objects |
The dates are those of the release announcements on the Text Control Blog. The names in parentheses are the names under which the versions were sold. The download package holds only the last installer of each version, which is usually that of a later service pack, so its dates aren't release dates.
How the Versions Were Named
From version 18.0 to version 29.0, Text Control sold TX Text Control under X names: version 18.0 was TX Text Control X8, and each major version counted one up to version 29.0, TX Text Control X19. From version 30.0 on, the product is named after its version number.
The Windows Forms control shares its version numbers with the other TX Text Control products, and each version page names the products released with it. WPF support started with version 16.0, which added the TXTextControl.WPF namespace to the class library.
What the Version Pages Contain
Each page starts with the release date and the focus of the version and then describes its features as far as they concern TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms: the TextControl and its ribbons, toolbars, sidebars and dialog boxes, document processing with ServerTextControl, mail merge and PDF. Features that only the WPF control or the web components received are left out.
- Update notes. Changes to existing classes and members, and the changes that can require work in an upgrade, such as the class hierarchy of
DocumentTargetin Version 28.0. - New classes and members. The classes, properties, methods and events that the What's New documentation of the version lists for Windows Forms, grouped by class, each linked to its current reference page.
- Setup and deployment of their time. These versions were .NET Framework products: version 25.0, for example, was compiled against the .NET Framework 4.0. Up to version 29.0, the setup also registered the assemblies in the global assembly cache, which Version 30.0 changed. Today's setup, licensing and deployment are described in the Installation Guide.
Where to Start
- Upgrading from one of these versions? Read the pages of every version between yours and 29.0 for their update notes, then Breaking Changes for the versions from 30.0 on, and Upgrading from Previous Versions for the steps.
- Looking for the version of a feature? Start with the table above, then open the version's page. Many reference pages of classes and members also state the version that introduced them.
- Replacing old members? Deprecated APIs lists the members that are obsolete today and their replacements.