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The requirement is to open xls or xlsx in browser directly with out downloading, I could able to do this with word documents.
Is there any open source or commercial dll's or plug-ins which support this feature.
Thanks in advance.
Your best bet would be Office Online : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office-online-help/get-started-at-office-com-HA101785172.aspx
There are two versions, the cloud one that you can try for free on OneDrive and that is also provided by Sharepoint Online as part of Office 365, or the on premisses one that you can get by licensing Office Web Apps Server.
These are in my opinion the best experience you can get to view AND modify word or excel files in a browser.
As for embedding them in you MVC application, you can use the following documentation by Microsoft : http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/embed-an-excel-spreadsheet-on-a-web-page-FX102602477.aspx
Basically the office web app provides you the markup needed for embedding a given document, a simple iframe.
The "hard" part will be transferring your documents into the office web app, but that depends on the implementation you pick up.
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The task is to generate 2-3 pages PDF file, which may contain tables, with borders and without, nested tables, and simple formatting (align, text size, bold/italic). Input may be anything from markdown, or html, but some strict format to create a template. Output - pdf. Everything should be server side.
I have already researched in many libraries. iText is not supporting tables, others are expensive or require Word/IE to generate a file...
Is there any free libraries, which support this for C#?
iTextSharp does support tables (PdfPTable).
Versions 4.1.6 and below are LGPL/MPL licence, and are free of charge
Versions 5+ are not free.
I used to use iTextSharp around version 4 and I'm sure all of your requirements are met. Try it out!
ABC Pdf works very well, but its around $250 :( they offer a free trial though.
Few other alternatives will be. iTextSharp is really good :)
iTextSharp
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
PDF Sharp.
http://sharppdf.sourceforge.net/
PDF Clown
http://www.stefanochizzolini.it/en/projects/clown/index.html
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I was tasked to create a new Website - to make it similar to Facebook. ( were talking without games) so a standart backend with CMS for media sites.
I am familiar with VS'12, asp.net MVC3 & 4 C# or Vb.net , html5 and other languages and feel fit to start this.
What i wanted to know is if there is any Template, Backends, Nuget Packages, Open Source Applications out there for Visual Studio so I don't have to recreate the wheel?
I have looked where i know to look so a great answer would be a Template, Backend, Nuget Package and where you found it. Or possibly another method of getting started that i didn't list / am not aware of
Please do not come back at me with any PHP templates, for i would not be interested in it.
Thanks in advance.
Take a look here: MonoX
Free ASP.NET Content Management and Social Networking Platform
MonoX comes with everything you need to build advanced social networks.
MonoX includes very powerful content management functionality.
Mono Software provides MonoX blogs, tutorials and support forums.
This is something I'd recommend.
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I searching for a free .Net (C#) library that iIcan use to scan from a document scanner, and then OCR the document, so I can get the text from it to save in a database.
After some search I can not find anyone working in Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4. Someone knows any libs that works like this?
You can use WIA library to control the scanning process and tesseractdotnet for OCR. An updated .NET 4.0 version can be found here.
Updated link to .NET wrapper here
I think this may be usef for you Tessnet2 a .NET 2.0 Open Source OCR Library
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I'm trying to create an ebook reader for WP7. So far I haven't been able to find any API to read ePub books with.
Thanks,
Zain
For DRM-free html based ePubs(there are also dtbook based ePubs, but I've never seen one) you can simply use a few libraries to build a reader:
An html render control, since the content is based on xhtml 1 and css
A zip library because the container is a zip archive
An xml library to parse the meta data files
For 2. and 3. there are many libraries, some of which support silverlight/WP7. No idea about 1, but I suspect WP7 already offers such a control.
EPUB sharp beta - http://sourceforge.net/projects/epubsharp/
Also, you can check out the draft of the ePub 3 spec here
Edit: Fixed the link
EPUB Sharp has not been updated since a long time.
Here's a step by step procedure in building your own (for iPhone, IMO it's good starting point).
I would imagine that extracting the contents of the book, as string or simple text and passing it into the Microsoft Speech SDK (SAPI) would work. Functions therein can be called from within c#. Did you try that already?
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Is there a library that can be used to stream FLV from IIS server and play it in ASP.NET page using C#?
Have you looked at
http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/kfra/archive/2006/10/04/50003.aspx
Be aware that a lot of sites say "streaming" but what they're really doing is Pseudo Streaming. That is it is actually progressive with the ability to "skip ahead".
What are your reasons for wanting to use streaming?
What are your reasons for choosing flv instead of say H.264 (.mp4)?
I work at http://exposureroom.com and we use Pseudo Streaming with our Html 5 player. If you use the latest versions of browsers you can try out the test page
http://exposureroom.com/html5/
you won't be using IIS Media server by the way. You'll be use IIS and streaming the flv via your ASP.NET application.
If you put the flv file in your website folder it should have no problem streaming. If you want to embed it I suggest using JW flv player. You can embed it using good old html in visual studio. You don't need to use c# unless you want to specify the flv file location dynamically or something of other dynamic nature.