GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 20.12 Release Notes

Major Features

Provided options to control JSON simple values’ recognition and supported working with the XLT Spreadsheet document format.

Full List of Features Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
ASSEMBLYNET-174	Provide a mode where types of JSON simple values are determined from JSON notation itself	Feature
ASSEMBLYNET-175	Provide a way to parse date-time values using an exact format for JsonDataSource	Feature
ASSEMBLYNET-177	Support working with XLT format	Feature

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 20.12. It includes not only new and obsoleted public methods, but also a description of any changes in the behavior behind the scenes in GroupDocs.Assembly which may affect existing code. Any behavior introduced that could be seen as a regression and modifies existing behavior is especially important and is documented here.

Provided Options to Control JSON Simple Values’ Recognition

A detailed description of this feature can be found in the “Working with JSON Data Sources” section.

Supported Working with the XLT Spreadsheet Document Format

Starting from the 20.12 version, GroupDocs.Assembly provides abilities for loading of template XLT Spreadsheet documents and saving of assembled Spreadsheet documents to the XLT format.

For information on supported file formats, see the page “Supported Document Formats”.

New members of FileFormat

/// <summary>
/// Specifies the Microsoft Excel 97 - 2007 Binary Template format.
/// </summary>
Xlt

UC1: Loading of an XLT template for Spreadsheet document assembly

DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.AssembleDocument("template.xlt", "result.xlsx", ...);

UC2: Saving an assembled Spreadsheet document to the XLT format using file extension

DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.AssembleDocument("template.xlsx", "result.xlt", ...);

UC3: Saving an assembled Spreadsheet document to the XLT format using explicit specifying

Stream sourceStream = ...;
Stream targetStream = ...;

DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.AssembleDocument(sourceStream, targetStream, new LoadSaveOptions(FileFormat.Xlt), ...);