News & Events

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.