We are pleased to announce the release of FlexCel Studio for .NET 7.8.
To be notified of new releases open https://support.tmssoftware.com/tag/flexcel-net-release and watch the tag.
New in v 7.8 - November 2020
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.NET 5 Support. The codebase has been updated to support .NET 5. Important : To use FlexCel in .NET 5, please update to at least this FlexCel version. .NET 5 changed string handing in Windows to use ICU, and that causes problems with older versions of FlexCel in Windows. See https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/43736
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Breaking Change: Removed support for .NET Core 2.0 and 3.0. We removed support for .NET Core 2.0 and 3.0 as both reached end of life. We keep supporting .NET Core 2.1 and 3.1. See https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-core
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Support for switching Graphics engines in .NET Core or .NET 5. There is a new property in FlexCelConfig: GraphicFramework which allows you to select between using GDI+ in Windows (native) or SKIA (better compatibility with other platforms which use SKIA)
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Support for reading fonts from the disk even if the graphics library returns that information. There is a new property in FlexCelConfig: ForcePdfFontsFromDisk which allows you to select if FlexCel should use the font data returned by the graphics library if possible, or always scan a folder with fonts.
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Improved performance in the SKIA graphics backend for .NET 5. Now SKIA is faster than GDI+ in windows if you use it as the graphics library.
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Improved compatibility with invalid xls files. Now FlexCel can ignore invalid ministreams when reading corrupt/invalid xls files.