Migrating to GroupDocs.Assembly 3.0.0 or Higher Leave feedback

Just to endeavor the report generation task more smoothly, we released GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 3.0.0.

In GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 3.0.0 only a single using GroupDocs.Assembly; namespace is required to generate reports in any of the supported formats. Whereas, in GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 1.3.0 to generate a report in any of the supported format a separate namespace of that format is required to be added, given are the namespaces:

1. using Groupdocs.Assembly;
2. using Groupdocs.Assembly.Cells;
3. using Groupdocs.Assembly.Data;
4. using Groupdocs.Assembly.Exceptions;
5. using Groupdocs.Assembly.Pdf;
6. using Groupdocs.Assembly.Slides;
7. using Groupdocs.Assembly.Words;

GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 3.0.0 supports following data sources:

• Database
• XML
• JSON
• OData
• Custom .NET Objects

Next Generation GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET engine supports the underlying C# syntax for LINQ queries which is actually shorter than LINQ. This basically means that the developers can use the familiar and well documented C# syntax to write data binding/traversal queries right in the document templates. As a result, developers can enjoy many benefits including short and concise reporting syntax and binding to any type of supported data source including business objects.

In GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 1.3.0 user need to edit the template through code. However, template editing in GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 3.0.0 is quite straightforward. Font size, text alignment and other similar context is dealt on the template end.

Code to generate reports has been shrunk to fewer lines in GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 3.0.0. A user does not need to write the bulk of lines of code to generate big reports. Instead, he/she will have to write 2 to 3 lines of code to generate business documents and reports.

Note

The code uses some of the objects defined in The Business Layer