Charlotte, NC, July 08, 2008 - TX Text Control has been setting the standard
in the software component industry for more than seventeen years. Today, The
Imaging Source - the manufacturer of these word processing components - has
just announced version 14.0 with many improvements and much technical
innovation.
Demand from the component's customer base to add support for MS Word
standard Office Open XML (DOCX) has been strong. The latest version of TX
Text Control now offers this ISO ratified format as one of its many
supported file formats. In addition to the new XML based MS Word format,
legacy Word formats, such as Word 97 and 2003, Rich Text Format (RTF) and
HTML are also supported. Furthermore, Adobe PDF documents can be created and
saved.
TX Text Control .NET 14 has been optimized for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008,
supports the newest .NET framework 2.0 and 3.5 and ships in 64 bit and 32
bit versions for all current Windows editions...
Improve VFP data retrieval with WCF
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) enables us to create distributed architecture and use Visual FoxPro (VFP) as a client/server system executing the operation on the server (backend). With the WCF client we can download the data from the server in asynchronous (non blocking) mode. The measurement in this article show us this can be done much faster then downloading the data with VFP functions or oledb data adapters. With WCF, we can take advantage of parallel (asynchronous) operation and distribute the processing of data between the client and the server. The retrieved data can be presented in VFP or Net (Windows) controls. In the download of this article is the code of four projects: WCF service, WCF client, COM object and VFP client. We present the code and the measurement of retrieving the data from the server in the form of a data table, a dataset, a strong typed collection and the dbf file. The fastest is the retrieve and transport of the dbf file binded to the VFP grid, on the second place (24%slower) is the strong typed Net collection binded to the Net grid, the laziest (30% slower) is the Net data table binded to the windows Net grid. Except for very small record set, there is a big time gap (almost 100%) between the direct VFP data retrive over the local network and using the WCF service...
