News & Events

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.