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.NET API allows generating custom documents & reports from templates by populating data from various data sources. Supported formats include PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, OTT, ODP and many others.
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An on-premise API to generate documents of various formats based on user-defined templates as well as from other data sources, such as XML, OData, JSON, etc.

Document Assembly Processing Features

  • Support for multiple data formats.
  • Perform sequential data operations.
  • Supports upper, lower, capital, first-cap formatting to template syntax strings.
  • Apply ordinal, cardinal, alphabetic, numeric formatting in template syntax.
  • Use custom variables in the template documents.
  • Support for text comments within template syntax tags.
  • Dynamically insert document content & hyperlinks in reports.
  • Apply attributes to the email message body.
  • Dynamically apply email attachments.
  • Generate barcode in reports.
  • Dynamically set background color of HTML documents.
  • Supports formatting of numeric, text, image, date-time, chart elements in the template.
  • Apply conditional formatting on template text elements.
  • Linq-based template syntax.
  • Use explicit specifications or file extensions to change the format of the assembled files.
  • Supports the next field analog of Microsoft Word.
  • Update fields during word processing document assembly.
  • Support for applying formula during spreadsheet file assembly.
  • Automatically remove empty paragraphs.
  • Generate various report types, such as charts, lists, tables, etc.
  • Instead of exception throwing, support for inline template syntax errors in generated docs.
  • Load template documents from HTML with resources.
  • Save assembled documents to 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, POTX, POTM, PPT, PPS

Read & Write Other Formats

OpenOffice: ODS, ODT, OTT, OTP, ODP, OXPS
Email: EML, MSG, EMLX
Fixed Layout: PDF, XPS
Markup: HTML, MHTML, XML, XAML
Images: TIFF, SVG
eBook: EPUB
PostScript: PS
Printer Control: PCL
Markdown: MD
Text: TXT

Please visit the Supported Document Formats for details.

Platform Independence

GroupDocs.Assembly for .Net can be used to build applications for Windows, Mac OS X x64 as well as Linux x64. Developers may also code in PHP, VBScript, Delphi & C++ programming languages while using GroupDocs.Assembly for .Net via COM Interop.

Get Started

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.

Please check the GitHub Repository for other common usage scenarios.

Generate a DOCX File 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 Spreadsheet as a Data Source to Assemble a Document

string strDocumentTemplate = "Word Templates/Using Spreadsheet as Table of Data.docx";
string strDocumentReport = "Word Reports/Using Spreadsheet as Table of Data_Output.docx";
// 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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