News and Events

• 4K/High-Resolution Monitor Support in Design Mode: The SSRS Vision CRI designers have been enhanced to support 4K and high-resolution monitors.
• New Pie Chart Label Layout Mode - 'Rim No Overlap': This mode positions axis labels along the rim of the pie chart, preventing overlaps while minimizing label connector crossings.
• Improved Label Positioning and Overlap Resolution: Optimized for greater speed and accuracy.
• New 'Triangulated Heat Map' Series Mode: This mode allows the creation of heat maps from unordered point sets by automatically generating a triangular network.

• All reported issues in the CRI items have been resolved. Improved integration with VS2022.

Support for .NET Core 8.0

NOV has a native build for .NET 8.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2+, NET 6.0, and .NET 7.0.

NOV Mac projects have been migrated from Mac to .NET 8.0 and can be used with the following IDEs on the Mac:

• Visual Studio Code with the C# DevKit plugin
• JetBrains Rider

The new version NOV Chart for .NET adds the following new features:

• Surface Series - the control adds support for Grid Surface, Mesh Surface, Triangulated Surface, and Vertex Surface Series. All surface series support real time, shader optimized rendering as well as many visualization options, such as support for mesh and contour lines, custom colors per vertex, flat contour rendering and others.
• Trendline Series - trendline series that allows you to visualize Exponential, Linear, Logarithmic, Polynomial, Power and Moving Average trendlines.
• Data Import - the control allows you to import single and multiple data series data from various data sources, including IEnumerable, INIterable<T>, NDataTable, NDbDataReader etc.
• Data Binding - the data binding feature allows you to bind multiple data series to a data source, so that they automatically refresh when the data source changes.
• Data Analysis - the control add supports integration with NOV Formula Calculator, which allows you to display various arithmetic, statistical and financial functions such as moving average, power, standard deviation, statistical distributions and many others.

The following existing features have been improved:

• UI Improvements - NOV Chart has a new Ribbon and Command bar interface, that includes support for exporting chart images to raster and vector formats, modifying the chart projection and palette and access to other chart features.
• Enhanced PDF Export UI - The UI of the PDF Export is enhanced to support multiple pages.

The new version of NOV Diagram for .NET includes the following new features:

• Layers - The diagram now features layers. Each page item, such as Shapes and Guidelines, can be assigned to multiple layers. Layers help you group related items together, allowing you to show and hide them, protect them from printing or editing (lock them), highlight them, and more. This gives you granular control over the page items you want to work with, enabling you to focus on specific parts of your page without affecting others. Additionally, layers are recognized during Visio drawings import and export.

The following existing features have been improved:

• Improved Microsoft Visio Import-Export of VSDX (Drawings) and VSSX (Stencils) formats - We have improved the Microsoft Visio Drawings (VSDX files) and Stencils (VSSX files) import and export with support for shape protections. Invisible Nevron shapes are also no longer exported to Visio.
• Improved import of Microsoft Visio 2003-2010 VSD (Drawings) and VSX (Stencils) formats - We have completely rewritten the Visio 2003-2010 import, which is now faster and more accurate than the old one.
• Improved Family Tree diagrams - Persons are now ordered by birth date and relationships - by marriage date.

The new version adds a new slimmed down version of the control called NSimpleRichTextView, which mimics the WordPad functionality (does not allow the user to import/paste tables, multiple sections, etc.)

The new version of the NOV Schedule component includes a new view mode - Work Week view mode. It shows only the working days of the week - the days from Monday to Friday.

The Formula Calculator inside the NOV Presentation Framework has been improved to support a full set of Microsoft Excel - like statistical functions. These include:

• Statistical Distribution Functions - a full set of Excel-like statistical distribution functions is now included, as summarized by the following table:
  

  Function	Description	Inverse Function
  BINOMDIST	Binomial Distribution
  CHISQDIST	Chi-squared Distribution	CHISQINV
  EXPONDIST	Exponential Distribution	EXPONINV
  BETADIST	Cumulative Beta Probability Density Function	BETAINV
  FDIST	F Probability Distribution (degree of diversity)	FINV
  GAMMADIST	Gamma Distribution	GAMMAINV
  HYPGEOMDIST	Hypergeometric Distribution
  LOGNORMDIST	Lognormal Distribution	LOGNORMINV
  NEGBINOMDIST	Similar to the binomial distribution, except that the number of successes is fixed, and the number of trials is variable
  NORMDIST	Normal Distribution	NORMINV
  POISSONDIST	Poisson Distribution
  TDIST	Student T-Distribution	TINV, TINV2T
  WEIBULLDIST	Weibull Distribution

• Statistical Trendline Functions - the following table summarizes the newly implemented trendline functions:
  

  Function	Description
  LINEST	Calculates the statistics for a line by using the "least squares" method to calculate a straight line that best fits your data.
  LOGEST	In regression analysis, the LOGEST function calculates an exponential curve that fits your data and returns an array of values that describes the curve.

• Miscellaneous Statistical Functions - the following table summarizes the other newly implemented functions:
  

  Function	Description
  RSQ	Returns the square of the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient.
  CORRELATION	Returns the correlation coefficient of two arrays of values. Use the correlation coefficient to determine the relationship between two properties.
  COVARIANCE	Covariance in probability theory and statistics is a measure of the joint variability of two random variables.

The new version supports .NET Core 8.0 (in addition to .NET Core 6.0 and .NET Core 7.0) for the WinForms and WPF chart controls included in the suite. The nuget package for .NET Vision has also been upgraded to support the new version of .NET Core.

The new version includes a new implementation of the data labels layout for improved readability of charts containing many overlapping data labels. The new data labels layout applies to Cartesian and Pie Charts. The pie series also features a new pie label layout (RimNoOverlap), that allows you to position the pie labels at the pie rim, without overlapping.

The new version features bug fixes for all reported problems and other performance improvements in the control.

The new version supports .NET Core 7.0 (in addition to .NET Core 6.0 and .NET Core 5.0) for the WinForms and WPF chart controls included in the suite. The nuget package for .NET Vision has also been upgraded to support the new version of .NET Core.

The new version of the chart control includes three new series (Bar, Line, and Point) that allow the display of extensive data sets (millions of data points) in real-time. The new series utilizes the GPU to perform most of the calculations. All fast series are available in both 2D and 3D. Nevron Chart is the leading charting control for .NET. It easily integrates with WinForm, WPF, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET MVC projects.

The new version features bug fixes for all reported problems and other performance improvements in the control.

NOV 2023.1 fully supports .NET Core 7.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2+ and .NET Core 5.0, .NET Core 6.0, and .NET Core 6.0.

NOV Chart for .NET comes with a new 3D rendering engine in NOV that is available in the WPF and WinForms editions of the control. The new engine features hardware-accelerated rendering, hit testing, pixel-perfect rendering, and hardware-accelerated antialiasing. We have also added many new 3D charting types, including 3D Area, 3D Bar, 3D Bubble, 3D Error Bar, 3D High Low, 3D Line, 3D Point, 3D Range, 3D Vector, 3D Funnel, and 3D Pie.

Other chart improvements include a new designer, improved image export capabilities, and bug fixes.

The new version of the diagram component in NOV includes support for reading of Visio 2003-2010 Drawings (VSD files), improved SVG export, and support for embedded 2D and 3D charts.

The 2023.1 version of NOV for .NET comes with a new Bookmark features to the control and support for reading and exporting text documents with Bookmarks in DOCX, HTML, and RTF text formats.

The new version includes two new Gauge widgets: Led Text Display and State Indicator. The Gauge control also features many new examples showing how to modify the gauge axes and indicators and combine different gauge elements.

Nevron Chart is the leading charting control for .NET. It easily integrates with WinForm, WPF, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET MVC projects. Nevron Chart has a vast feature set that covers all 2D and 3D charting types and Gauges found in presentational, business, scientific, financial, real-time monitoring, statistical, process control, BI, dashboard and other applications. The data visualization capabilities of the control are complemented with state-of-the-art interactivity features like data zooming, scrolling, panning, and hit testing. The blend of blazing-fast performance, robustness, image quality and feature richness makes this control unique.

Nevron Diagram for .NET is simply the most feature-rich, fast, and robust diagramming package for .NET available today. If you need to create advanced relational charts and diagrams from your data automatically, then look no further.Whether you need to display interactive Flow Charts, Organizational Charts, Maps, Process Control Diagrams, HMI Interfaces, or automatically generate drawings from your data - Nevron Diagram has "out of the box" features to help you finish your project on time and within budget. Carefully crafted to meet diverse requirements and specific business needs, it provides flexible extensibility options, which will help you to integrate it perfectly into your project.

Nevron User Interface for .NET is the only suite on the market with such remarkable render quality and speed. Explore a rich and powerful docking library, professional and extensible command bars, unique features such as skinnable forms, rich-text labels, modern fill effects (glass, gel), and much more designed to bring to your .NET applications the latest GUI standards and technologies.

Nevron Chart for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is an advanced report item delivering a complete set of 2D and 3D charting types, highly customizable axes, tight data integration, and unmatched visual effects to your reports. It instantly improves your report authoring experience with its polished visual editors, exhaustive and refined settings, and well-organized structure. Nevron Chart for SSRS is an indispensable tool for any Business Intelligence, Scorecard, Presentation, Scientific, or general-purpose report since it is packed with exclusive features not available from any other vendor.

Nevron Gauge for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is an advanced report item delivering a complete set of gauge types, highly customizable axes, tight data integration, and unmatched visual effects to your reports. Nevron Gauge for SSRS includes Linear Gauges, Radial Gauges, State Indicators, and Numeric Display Panels with support for unique functionality and visual styling. Nevron Gauge for SSRS is a must-have tool for any report that needs to display KPIs or mission-critical data.

Nevron Map for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is designed to provide report authors with an easy and powerful way to create choropleth and highly informative maps that are tightly integrated with the data. Nevron Map for SSRS delivers unmatched geospatial data analysis features and map display options. That is why this tool perfectly complements any report that needs to display geographical data of any type.

Nevron Barcode for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is designed to provide report authors with an easy and powerful way to create Linear and Matrix barcodes that are tightly integrated with the data. Nevron Barcode for SSRS delivers unique functionality inside Reporting Services since there is no built-in barcode report item in SSRS. That is why this tool is a fundamental requirement for any report that needs to integrate barcode display functionality.

NOV has a native build for .NET Core 6.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET Core 5.0.

NOV has extended support for NuGet based deployment, with added NuGet packages for every major component in the suite, as well as for the entire suite.

Every NOV example now includes a new tab with the VB.NET code of the example. Users can also export every NOV example to a VB.NET solution and open it in Visual Studio 2019 or newer.

NOV can now read Windows Icon (ICO) files as a set of images with different image sizes. Open the “Framework > Imaging > ICO Decoder” example for a code sample.

• NOV now imports/exports paragraph and inline rule background and highlight fill styles.
• Improved import of DOCX lists.
• Various other DOCX compatibility improvements and bug fixes.

Several new examples showing automatic report generation with embedded charts.

Fixed problems with paragraph line trimming, spell checking, text layout, and others.

NOV has full support for Blazor / WebAssembly. The entire functionality of NOV can be used on the client-side through C# or JavaScript.

The WPF rendering has been significantly improved and NOV can render directly to a DirectX image using hardware-accelerated rendering, which dramatically improves the rendering performance of the applications using NOV.

Additional strings are added to the localization dictionary and platform-specific localization features are provided on selected platforms. See the Platform Specific Localization Features topic for more information.

The IO API of NOV has been revised to support asynchronous operations. All components (Rich Text Editor, Diagram, Scheduler, etc.) are rewritten to support asynchronous file operations. This allows for NOV components to be easily adapted to access files located in the Cloud.

The family tree diagram extension now provides 2 settings for family tree shapes: date format (show dates as 4-digit years or in day/month/year format) and whether to show photos or not.

The Rich Text Editor now supports column breaks inside paragraphs, as regular text inlines. This allows you to have many column breaks per section.

The control supports controllable character and word spacing which can be applied to blocks, and individual inlines. This allows you to have better control over text layout similar to the one found in professional desktop publishing systems.

Besides a current time indicator, the Schedule component can now show fixed time indicators with various styles. See the Schedule Time Indicators topic for more information.

The SharePoint Vision installer has been improved to better report common installation problems as well as to allow for registration of version ranges for assembly binding. This is useful when migrating pages that contain older versions of the web parts in the suite.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint has been enhanced with the following features:

• Added axis settings for controlling the tick density on categorical scales. The categorical axes now support Min Distance, Max Count, and Custom Step tick settings.
• Ability to exclude series from the scale range calculation. The Include in X Axis Range and Include In Y Axis Range settings in value groupings allow you to exclude the generated series from the X / Y axis range calculation.
• Added data label Fit Mode and Max Width properties to data labels settings. This allows you to specify the max width of the generated labels.
• Added Minor Tick Count property to angular scales used in Polar charts.
• Added controllable label Separator setting for values, categories, and series groupings.
• Added New regression types - power, logarithmic and exponential regressions are now implemented.
• Added support for per series and per data point label settings for all charting types.
• Added support for per series and per data point marker settings for all charting types.
• Performance optimizations in the heat map labeling and triangulation algorithms.

Fixed all reported problems in the web parts in the suite.

The SSRS Vision installer can detect and register the CRI items in PBIRS (Power BI Report Server). This allows you to complement PBIRS with the powerful data visualization components in SSRS Vision.

The SSRS Vision installer has been improved to better report common installation problems. Several problems related to the distribution and toolbox integration with VS2019 have been fixed.

Nevron Chart for SSRS has been enhanced with the following features:

• Added axis settings for controlling the tick density on categorical scales. The categorical axes now support Min Distance, Max Count, and Custom Step tick settings.
• Ability to exclude series from the scale range calculation. The Include in X-Axis Range and Include In Y-Axis Range settings in value groupings allow you to exclude the generated series from the X / Y axis range calculation.
• Added data label Fit Mode and Max Width properties to data labels settings. This allows you to specify the max-width of the generated labels.
• Added Minor Tick Count property to angular scales used in Polar charts.
• Added controllable label Separator setting for values, categories, and series groupings.
• Added Tag setting to all values groupings. This feature allows you to attach arbitrary information to the chart series generated by the data grouping, which can later be used in custom code.
• Added New regression types - power, logarithmic and exponential regressions are now implemented.
• Added support for per data point and per data label expressions for all charting types.
• Performance optimizations in the heat map labeling and triangulation algorithms.

Fixed all reported problems in the CRI items in the suite.

NOV has support for .NET Core 5.0 as well as legacy .NET Framework 4.7.2 and above.

NOV fully integrates with Visual Studio 2022 for both .NET Core and legacy .NET framework projects. All controls in the suite integrate with the Visual Studio toolbox automatically.

Improved Visual Studio Design-Time support for all NOV controls. The template startup projects have been updated to support .net core and .net framework 4.7.2.

A new theme editor application is included in the suite that allows you to modify the existing UI themes or create your own.

Improved localization and updated localization dictionaries.

NOV is now per-monitor DPI-aware and will automatically switch the rendering resolution of all NOV controls depending on the current monitor’s DPI.

NOV examples navigation is improved by adding a more intuitive and easy-to-use interface. In addition, the NOV example framework supports the automatic creation of example projects for WinForms and WPF based on the currently viewed example.

All examples now provide C# and VB.NET source code variants.

NOV features many performance modifications in the text and graphics rendering.

NOV features bug fixes for all reported problems in the previous release.

Visio import and export have been improved to ensure better loading and saving of Visio drawings and stencils.

All major formats supported by the control (DOCX, RTF, and EPUB) are significantly improved for better accuracy.

The control's customization capabilities have been significantly improved.

The schedule component can now show a time indicator that represents the current time.

The control's customization capabilities have been significantly improved to support custom keyboard interaction, custom copy/paste formats, and others.

The new version supports .NET Core 5.0 for the WinForms and WPF Chart controls included in the suite.

The new version is distributed with a single installation that can deploy the controls in the suite to all versions of Visual Studio since 2010. This includes VS2010, VS2013, VS2015, VS2017, VS2019, and VS2022. Prior versions of Visual Studio (VS2005 and VS2008) are still supported and the installer also includes dlls for .NET 2.0 but does not register the controls in the VS2005 and VS2008 toolbox.

The Chart control has a new surface series that allows you to plot arbitrary 3D graphics shapes, by specifying its graphics primitive and optionally indices and custom colors per vertex. All surface series attributes like color frames, contour lines, isolines, etc., are also supported.

The Chart control has an improved heat map labeling and contour generation algorithm as well as optimized label overlapping resolve.

The new version features bug fixes for all reported problems as well as other performance improvements in the control.

The new version is distributed with a single installation that can deploy the controls in the suite to all versions of Visual Studio since 2010. This includes VS2010, VS2013, VS2015, VS2017, and VS2019. Prior versions of Visual Studio (VS2005 and VS2008) are still supported and the installer also includes dlls for .NET 2.0, but does not register the controls in the VS2005 and VS2008 toolbox.

The Grid, Mesh, and Triangulated Surface Series have been completely redesigned for performance and better GPU utilization. The new surface series are much faster (more than x10 times performance gains in some scenarios). Following is a brief list of the improvements in those three series:

• faster rendering speed with the ability to store the generated surface output on the GPU for faster redraws.
• faster contour and isoline levels generation.
• faster and more robust multi-threaded triangulation for the Triangulated Surface Series.
• ability to perform all surface-related scale and lighting computations on the GPU. This feature is very useful for large, dynamically changing surfaces.

The algorithm for triangulation of the passed set has been replaced with an algorithm with up to 6 times better performance on a single core as well as the ability to perform multithreaded triangulation which further improves the triangulation speed depending on the number of cores on the machine. Added support for Tooltips.

• Added properties to allow for alignment of axes relative to a user-specified value - AlignValue and AlignFactor.
• Added support for excluding a series from the axis calculation - IncludeInXAxisRange, IncludeInYAxisRange, IncludeInZAxisRange
• Added properties to allow the display of text next to axis cursors.

The algorithm for heatmap contour generation has been improved.

The new version features bug fixes for all reported problems as well as other performance improvements in the control.

The new version of NOV includes a new hardware-accelerated rendering engine based on OpenGL. This greatly improves NOV rendering speed and responsiveness in all UI-related tasks. All controls in the suite benefit directly from this new feature which is enabled by default. If the current hardware does not support hardware acceleration the rendering falls back to software rendering automatically.

NOV design-time controls for WinForm/WPF now expose the full programmatic interface (API) of the Widget they wrap. This makes it possible to write code that calls methods or properties of the widget directly using the reference to the WinForm/WPF host control. This also applies to widget exposed events - for example, Clicked, CheckedChanged, and so on.

NOV startup processes are now significantly optimized, so you can expect an up to 20% faster startup. The Mac version also uses ahead of time compilation (AOT), which translates into an even faster startup on this OS.

Localization dictionaries now include a Turkish translation of the UI and shapes.

NOV comes with the new Windows 10 UI theme.

The ZIP compression/decompression performance is significantly improved.

The image processing (grayscale, image format conversions, etc.), as well as NOV image decoders, have been significantly optimized.

The new version of NOV Diagram comes with more than 300 Shape Libraries for different application fields. Libraries are also neatly organized depending on their field of application, so you can quickly locate the relevant shape library depending on your needs.

Libraries are also neatly organized depending on their field of application, so you can quickly locate the relevant shape library depending on your needs.

NOV Diagram now contains thousands of vector-based shapes that are essential when creating professional-looking diagrams and drawings. With this vast amount of shapes, it is easy to create any type of diagram, drawing, presentation, or document. Further, shapes in different libraries share a common visual appearance so you can easily mix shapes from different libraries as well.

The library browser is completely redesigned to provide better management and navigation through the hundreds of new shape libraries. The new version introduces a brand new Library Gallery, that allows you to browse through the hierarchically organized shape libraries. The functionality for searching for libraries and shapes is also significantly improved. Shape search results are organized in expandable groups thus allowing you to see results showing thousands of matching shapes. Besides shapes, you can also search for libraries and library folders.

The AutoCAD support has been improved with the following features:

• Import of dimension entities.
• Insert entities import improvements.
• Improved import speed and memory usage.
• Various other minor bug fixes.

The Visio support has been improved with the following features:

• Import and export of shape tooltips.
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements.

The tables in the rich text editor component now have improved support for table ranges:

• Ability to select table ranges using the mouse.
• Ability to select table columns or rows using the mouse.

PDF export now supports interactive hyperlinks. You can now create PDF documents that can redirect to a specified URL or navigate the PDF viewer to a bookmark inside the PDF document.

The control's customization capabilities have been significantly improved to support custom keyboard interaction, custom copy/paste formats, and others.

The control can now be configured to turn off word wrapping. In this mode, it will behave like a normal text box with word wrapping disabled. This feature is very useful when you have to display <pre> tags in HTML as well as if you want to create a custom code editor.