GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 19.8 Release Notes

This page contains release notes for GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 19.8

Major Features

Supported saving of assembled Markdown documents to Word Processing formats and saving of assembled Word Processing documents and emails to Markdown.

Full List of Features Covering all Changes in this Release

Key	Summary	Category
ASSEMBLYNET-125	Support saving of assembled Markdown documents to Word Processing formats	Feature
ASSEMBLYNET-126	Support saving of assembled Word Processing documents to Markdown	Feature
ASSEMBLYNET-127	Support saving of assembled emails to Markdown	Feature

This section lists public API changes that were introduced in GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET 19.8. 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.

Public API and Backward Incompatible Changes

Since version 19.8, the GroupDocs.Assembly provides abilities for saving of assembled Markdown documents to Word Processing formats and saving of assembled Word Processing documents and emails to Markdown.

For a moment the following Markdown features are supported:HeadingsBlock quotesHorizontal rulesBold emphasisItalic emphasisThe set of supported Markdown features will be extended in future releases of GroupDocs.Assembly.

New members of FileFormat

/// <summary>
/// Specifies the Markdown format.
/// </summary>
Markdown

Assembled Markdown Document to Word Processing Format

Use Case: Saving an assembled Markdown document to a Word Processing format using file extension.

const string description =
    "GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET is a class library that enables you to generate documents in popular " +
    "office and email file formats based upon template documents and data obtained from various sources " +
    "including databases, XML, JSON, OData, objects of custom .NET types, external documents, and more.";

DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();

assembler.AssembleDocument(
    "ReadMe.md",
    "ReadMe Out.docx",
    new DataSourceInfo("GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET", "product"),
    new DataSourceInfo(description, "description"));

Assembled Word Processing Document or Email to Markdown

Use Case: Saving an assembled Word Processing document or email to Markdown using file extension.

const string description =
    "GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET is a class library that enables you to generate documents in popular " +
    "office and email file formats based upon template documents and data obtained from various sources " +
    "including databases, XML, JSON, OData, objects of custom .NET types, external documents, and more.";

DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();

assembler.AssembleDocument(
    "ReadMe.docx",
    "ReadMe Out.md",
    new DataSourceInfo("GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET", "product"),
    new DataSourceInfo(description, "description"));

Assembled Word Processing Document or Email to Markdown (Explicit)

Use Case: Saving an assembled Word Processing document or email to Markdown using explicit specifying.

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

DataSourceInfo dataSourceInfo = new DataSourceInfo(...);
DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();

assembler.AssembleDocument(sourceStream, targetStream, new LoadSaveOptions(FileFormat.Markdown), dataSourceInfo);

The following attached sample templates were used:ReadMe.mdReadMe.docx