Imaging News — September 2005
Contents:
- Feature Article: Developing Applications in the .NET Framework
- Announcement: RasterMaster for .NET Enhanced with Annotation and Twain Scanning
- Announcement: MS Word Viewing Now Available in FlexSnap and RasterMaster for Java
- Announcement: FlexSnap: SI Enhancements Further Improve High-Speed Viewing
- Product Spotlight: RasterMaster™ for .NET
- President's Corner: What's the Big Idea? - Imaging Experts Blog
- Tech Tip: Applying Embedded ICC Profiles
- On the Road: DMS 2005 - Digital Management Solutions - September 27-29, Essen, Germany
- On the Road: Momentum Las Vegas 2005 - October 24-27
Developing Applications in the .NET Framework
The .NET platform is becoming increasingly important for organizations that prefer a Windows-based environment and have the need to distribute documents through web-based applications. Developing imaging applications on .NET can be beneficial to companies that need a flexible Windows platform.
The .NET Framework is a Microsoft programming platform for developing Windows and Web software. Using .NET, developers can easily integrate and connect applications. The major advantage of .NET, compared to previous Windows environments, is a managed type-safe environment for application development and execution. This approach enables the .NET Framework to offer cross-language compatibility, allowing VB.net, C#.net, VC++.net and J#.net to interact with each other.
Applications that run under the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) are called managed code because the CLR takes care of many of the tasks that would have formerly been handled in the application’s executable. With the .NET library, a wide variety of applications can be developed including Windows and Web applications as well as Web services.
Applications built in .NET can run on Windows-based servers and desktop clients. Organizations that use multiple platforms will need to create separate applications for their non-Windows systems.
Developers using .NET should look for an SDK optimized to work seamlessly on the .NET framework and provide a full range of imaging capabilities.
Product Spotlight
RasterMaster™ for .NET is an award-winning, feature-rich .Net imaging SDK. Built on our flagship DLL with a .NET wrapper, our library provides users access to our DLL library from .NET managed code. Different languages are able to reference the same .NET library. This enables the fast, easy development of Windows or Web applications and Web services.
RasterMaster is also for Windows (DLL or ActiveX), JAVA, UNIX, and Macintosh.
Request an Evaluation of our RasterMaster Imaging SDK.
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President's Corner
I am pleased to announce that a new, valuable resource about imaging trends is now available to you. We have officially launched our new blog site, http://imagingexperts.typepad.com, which provides a forum for discussing the latest industry trends and addressing document and web-based imaging questions.
The blog not only provides an outlet for our developers to post their opinions and views on imaging topics, but it also provides you with a resource to express your own opinions as well as conduct a dialog with our team of imaging experts.
Feel free to express your opinions (please keep it clean) but please refrain from submitting product specific support questions through the blog. As you are aware, we already have channels available for support inquiries and a separate team responsible for monitoring requests through the online support system.
We are excited about the blog and about the opportunity to conduct a dialog with you about the issues facing you and your business in document and web imaging. As always, we welcome your feedback and look forward to “blogging” with you.
Simon Wieczner, CEO