Author Archives: Muhammad.umar

Process the Microsoft Outlook Email Attachments in a .NET Viewer Application

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

An ‘attachment’ is a file such as a document or a photo that is attached to an email. It’s easy to attach pictures, files, contacts, emails and many other items to your Outlook messages. If you selected a file on your local computer or group document library for the attachment purpose, a copy of the file is attached to the email.

The case: A software developer is making a document viewing application. Although, his application is capable to render the MS … Continue Reading

Posted in GroupDocs.Viewer Product Family | Tagged .NET, .NET API, ASP.NET, Attachment, C#, Email, GroupDocs Viewer, Microsoft Outlook, MS Outlook

Best Practices in Metadata Management

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

Before going in-depth to Metadata management, let’s discuss what the metadata is? The Metadata summarizes basic information about data. In other words, it’s an information which describes the data that contained in something like a web page, document, or file. Another way to think of metadata is as a short explanation or summary of what the data is.

A simple example of metadata for a document might include a collection of information like the author, file size, date the document … Continue Reading

Posted in GroupDocs.Metadata Product Family | Tagged GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET Releases, JPEG Photo Parser, Metadata, metadata management

Searching in a Large Number of Documents

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

Usually, a searching software is able to achieve fast search responses because, instead of search the text directly, it searches an index. This would be the equivalent of retrieving pages in a book related to a keyword by searching the index at the back of a book, as opposed to searching the words in each page of the book.

Using GroupDocs.Search for Indexing and Searching

Problem: Suppose you have 10 million documents of different file formats, e.g. MS Word, Spreadsheets, … Continue Reading

Posted in GroupDocs.Search Product Family | Tagged Facet Search, Fuzzy, GroupDocs, GroupDocs.Search, Indexing, lucene, search api, Searching, Stop Words

Watermark Word Processing Documents

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

A watermark in presentation software and word processing is frequently used in a slightly different manner than digital watermarks used in other digital multimedia content. This watermark is often a faded image or text as a background of a slide or a page. It is meant to enhance but is not the focal point of the page/slide. Watermarks are sometimes used in the form of a logo, discreetly placed on a slide or page to brand the presentation or document. … Continue Reading

Posted in GroupDocs.Watermark Product Family | Tagged Add Watermark in word, lock watermark in word, remove watermark in word, Watermark Word document, watermarking in word

Rendering Documents as PDF

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating systems. Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, vector graphics, raster images and other information needed to display it.

This post demonstrates the usage of the GroupDocs.Viewer APIs (GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET and GroupDocs.Viewer for Java) to render the … Continue Reading

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Configurable Redaction using an XML File

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

A configuration file defines the initial or commonly used parameters, options, settings or preferences applied to operating systems, infrastructure devices or applications in an IT context.

When the Need Arises

If you have large size data (may consist of multiple files of different file formats) or corporate sensitive data which need to be redacted without specifying the rules in your code.

What is the Solution

The GroupDocs.Redaction API provides the way to define a removal policy by writing the list … Continue Reading

Posted in GroupDocs.Redaction Product Family | Tagged Configurable Redaction, GroupDocs.Redaction for .NET, metadata redaction, Phrase redaction

Rendering Archive Documents

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Muhammad.umar

The Compressed files (e.g .ZIP or TAR) use file compression in order to save the disk space. Also, the compressed archive formats can be used to compress multiple files into a single archive. This post demonstrates the usage of the GroupDocs.Viewer API to render the list of files or folders from an archive file.

Rendering the List of a Folder from the Archive

The GetPages method of both ViewerImageHandler and ViewerHtmlHandler renders the items from the root of archives. The… Continue Reading

Posted in GroupDocs.Viewer Product Family | Tagged GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET, GroupDocs.Viewer for Java, Rendering Archive

Announcing the improved naming scheme of GroupDocs Nuget packages

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Muhammad.umar

We’re going to introduce an improvement in the naming scheme of our GroupDocs Nuget packages. Earlier, the package IDs were consisted of the product name in lower case letters and the hyphens “-” to join the words. So, an old package ID would look like “groupdocs-viewer-dotnet”. However, in the new naming scheme, the format will consist the product family name in title case. Hence, the new package identifier will look like “GroupDocs.Viewer”. These changes have been introduced since September… Continue Reading

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Announcing GroupDocs.Total for .NET – An Ultimate Solution

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Muhammad.umar

After spreading the magic of next generation GroupDocs .Net APIs around the globe, the GroupDocs team is happy to announce the release of GroupDocs.Total for .NET which is a complete suit of GroupDocs .NET APIs. In the other words, the GroupDocs.Total for .NET is a compilation of every .NET API offered by GroupDocs. It is compiled on daily basis to ensure that it contains the most up to dated versions of each of our .NET document manipulation APIs. GroupDocs.Total for … Continue Reading

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ASP.NET MVC Example Project for GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET Users

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Muhammad.umar

The GroupDocs team is pleased to announce the Front End sample project for the ASP.NET MVC developers. The reason behind this release is to facilitate the developers to write their own document viewer using GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 3.x. Almost all the functionalities have been implemented in this project which was given in the old GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 2.x UI Based API. The developers are flexible to customize the application by their own. This project has been published at github.com.

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