# Getting Started > Step-by-step tutorials for new TX Text Control .NET Server developers: process documents, add the Document Editor or Viewer, merge data and create PDFs. - **Product:** TX Text Control .NET Server - **Section:** Documentation - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** TX Text Control .NET Server > Getting Started - **1241 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/llms-full.txt --- Getting Started takes you from an empty Visual Studio project to a working application with TX Text Control .NET Server. Every tutorial ends with code that runs, and none of them expects you to know TX Text Control already. TX Text Control .NET Server is a set of components for document processing in .NET. You can create, convert and change documents in code on the server, merge data into templates, create PDF documents, and give your users a word processor or a document viewer in the browser. The tutorials in this section introduce each of these tasks one at a time, so you can start with the one your project needs and add the others later. ### Before You Begin Every tutorial assumes the following setup: - **A license or the trial version.** Licensed developers install the NuGet packages from the [Text Control Private NuGet Feed](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/installation/nuget/private-feed/llms-full.txt). NuGet authenticates with the email address your serial number is assigned to and an API token, and both are in the personalized *nuget.config* file you download for your projects. The license is included in the packages, so there are no license files or activation dialogs. To evaluate the product, install the trial version. Its setup provides the packages in a local package source named [Text Control Offline Packages](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/installation/nuget/offline-packages/llms-full.txt). - **Visual Studio and .NET.** The tutorials were written with Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10. The document processing packages require .NET 8 or higher, and you can also work with Visual Studio Code or the .NET CLI. See [System Requirements](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/installation/requirements/llms-full.txt) for details. - **Node.js and npm** for the Angular and React tutorials only. ### Core or Classic TX Text Control .NET Server ships with two document processing engines, and you choose one by the NuGet package you install: Core (`TXTextControl.TextControl.Core.SDK`) runs on Windows and Linux, Classic (`TXTextControl.TextControl.ASP.SDK`) on Windows only. The tutorials use the Core package, which is recommended for new projects; where a tutorial needs a different package for Classic, it says so. [The Document Engine](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/overview/architecture/#the-document-engine) compares the two engines. ### Choose Your Starting Point Each section starts with an overview page followed by step-by-step tutorials: | If you want to | Start with | Main packages | |---|---|---| | Create, convert or change documents in code, without a user interface | [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt) | `TXTextControl.TextControl.Core.SDK` | | Let users edit documents and templates in the browser | [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-editor/llms-full.txt) | `TXTextControl.Web`, `TXTextControl.Web.DocumentEditor.Backend` | | Let users view, fill in and sign documents in the browser | [Document Viewer](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-viewer/llms-full.txt) | `TXTextControl.Web.DocumentViewer` | | Merge JSON or business objects into templates, for example for invoices and letters | [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/mail-merge/llms-full.txt) | `TXTextControl.TextControl.Core.SDK` | | Create PDF and PDF/A, import PDFs and sign them digitally | [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/pdf/llms-full.txt) | `TXTextControl.TextControl.Core.SDK` | The Document Editor and Document Viewer tutorials also need the document processing package. The Document Editor and the Document Viewer are both available for ASP.NET Core, Angular, React, plain JavaScript and Blazor, and the Document Editor also for Node.js. Getting Started has a Blazor tutorial for the Document Editor, and [Blazor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/integration/blazor/#add-the-document-viewer) in the Integration Guide adds the Document Viewer. Angular and React use npm packages such as `@txtextcontrol/tx-ng-document-editor` and `@txtextcontrol/tx-react-document-viewer`, and the Blazor components `TXTextControl.Web.Blazor.DocumentEditor` and `TXTextControl.Web.Blazor.DocumentViewer` are installed from nuget.org. ### How the Parts Fit Together All components share the same document engine: `ServerTextControl` and `MailMerge` process documents in your .NET code, and the Document Editor and the Document Viewer show them in the browser. A typical application designs a template in the editor, merges it on the server and lets customers sign the result in the viewer, as [How the Components Work Together](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/overview/components/#how-the-components-work-together) describes. ### Recommended Order If you are new to TX Text Control and not sure where to begin: 1. Work through [Create Your First Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-processing/first-application/llms-full.txt). It sets up the NuGet packages and introduces `ServerTextControl`, which every other tutorial builds on. 2. Continue with [Simple Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/mail-merge/simple/llms-full.txt) or [Create a PDF](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/pdf/create/llms-full.txt), depending on what your application produces. 3. When your users need to work with documents in the browser, add the [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-editor/aspnet-core/llms-full.txt) or the [Document Viewer](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-viewer/aspnet-core/llms-full.txt) to an ASP.NET Core application. ### After Getting Started - [Overview](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/overview/llms-full.txt): the product architecture, components, platforms and supported file formats. - [Installation Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/installation/llms-full.txt): NuGet and npm packages, license configuration and upgrades. - [Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/examples/llms-full.txt): sample applications and online demos. - [Deployment Guide](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/deployment/llms-full.txt): run your application on Windows, Linux, Docker and in the cloud. - [Troubleshooting](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/troubleshooting/llms-full.txt): solutions to common problems. --- ## In This Section - [Document Editor](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-editor/llms-full.txt): Choose a Document Editor frontend for ASP.NET Core, Angular, React, JavaScript, Blazor or Node.js and see how the WebSocket endpoint and backend fit together. - [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt): Get started with server-side document processing: use ServerTextControl to create, load, edit and save DOCX and PDF documents without a user interface. - [Document Viewer](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-viewer/llms-full.txt): Display, annotate, fill in and sign documents in the browser: compare the Document Viewer with the editor and pick ASP.NET Core, Angular, React or JavaScript. - [Mail Merge](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/mail-merge/llms-full.txt): Mail merge with the MailMerge class: templates from MS Word or the Document Editor, merge fields, merge blocks and JSON, object or DataTable data sources. - [PDF Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/pdf/llms-full.txt): Create PDF, PDF/A and accessible PDFs, import PDFs for text extraction and changes, and digitally sign PDFs with TX Text Control .NET Server. --- ## Nearby - **Previous:** [Migrating From Previous Versions](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/installation/upgrading/previous-versions/llms-full.txt) - **Next:** [Document Processing](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-server/getting-started/document-processing/llms-full.txt)