.NET Document Automation & Reporting API

An on-premise Document Automation Engine that accepts a template document and data to generate documents as per syntax defined by the template. Data can be merged from various sources including CSV, XML, OData, JSON, .NET Objects & more.

Directory	Description
Examples	Contain package of all .NET examples and sample files that will help you learn how to use GroupDocs.Assembly for NET to its full extent.
Plugins	Analyze the progress while generating reports, compare code and template preparation.
Showcases	Web Report Generator is an ASP.NET Web Forms Application that demonstrates the core functionalities provided by GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET.

Report Generation via .NET

• Wide range of supported document formats.
• Document generation using data from various sources.
• LINQ-based template syntax.
• Manipulate data using formulae & sequential data operations.
• Supports Upper, Lower, Capital, First-Cap content formatting.
• Apply Ordinal, Cardinal, Alphabetic & Numeric formatting to template syntax.
• Apply attributes to email message body and dynamically add attachments.
• Generate barcode labels in reports.
• Apply conditional formatting & formatting based on type such as numeric, text, image & date-time.
• Supports NEXT field analogue of Microsoft Word.
• Update fields during Word document assembly.
• Apply & calculate formula during Excel file assembly.
• Generate various report types, such as, Charts, Lists, Tables etc.
• Load templates from HTML as well as save assembled documents as HTML with resources.

Read & Write Microsoft Office Formats

Microsoft Word: DOC, DOT, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM, RTF
Microsoft Excel: XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, XLTM, XLSB, XLS, XLT
Microsoft PowerPoint: PPTX, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, POT, POTX, POTM, PPT, PPS

Other Supported Formats

OpenOffice: ODS, ODT, OTT, OTP, ODP, OXPS
Email: EML, MSG, EMLX
Fixed Layout: PDF, XPS
Web: HTML, MHTML
Images: TIFF, SVG
Other: XML, XAML, TXT, EPUB, PS, PCL, MD

Platform Independence

GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET can be used to build applications for Windows, Mac OS X as well as for Linux. Developers may code in PHP, VBScript, Delphi & C++ programming languages while using GroupDocs.Assembly for .BET via COM Interop.

Getting Started with GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET

Are you ready to give GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package GroupDocs.Assembly from Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch & reference GroupDocs.Assembly assembly in your project. If you already have GroupDocs.Assembly for .Net and want to upgrade it, please execute Update-Package GroupDocs.Assembly to get the latest version.

Generate DOCX from Markdown (MD) Template via C# Code

//Setting up source document template
const String strDocumentTemplate = "Markdown Templates/ReadMe.md";
//Setting up destination Markdown reports
const String strDocumentReport = "Word Reports/ReadMe Out.docx";
//Setting up description variable
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();
//Assemble Document
assembler.AssembleDocument(
CommonUtilities.GetSourceDocument(strDocumentTemplate),
CommonUtilities.SetDestinationDocument(strDocumentReport),
new DataSourceInfo("GroupDocs.Assembly for .NET", "product"),
new DataSourceInfo(description, "description"));
}

Use Word Table as a Source to Assemble a Document

// assemble a document using the external document table as a data source.
DocumentAssembler assembler = new DocumentAssembler();
assembler.AssembleDocument(CommonUtilities.GetSourceDocument(strDocumentTemplate),
                           CommonUtilities.SetDestinationDocument(strDocumentReport),
                           new DataSourceInfo(DataLayer.ExcelData(), "contracts"));

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