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Duration Type Addition & Making Changes in Project Extended Attribute Type using REST APIs

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks Cloud 18.9 This release made changes in ExtendedAttribute type, such as Added fields such as ‘DateValue’, ‘DurationValue’, ‘NumericValue’, ‘FlagValue’ and ‘TextValue’  and removed fields such as ‘DurationFormat’, ‘Value’ and ‘AttributeType’ fields.The table on blog announcement page shows which field contains the value of extended attribute depending on ExtendedAttribute’s type. Thus in order to get or set the value of a custom field with ‘Date’, ‘Start’ or ‘Finish’ type one should use ‘DateValue’ field.Index parameter now can be FieldId as well as index of attribute in project.ExtendedAttributes collection. Moreover, Some important bug fixes are also part of this release, such as Incorrect scheduling of recurring daily tasks, Wrong time-phased data for material resources, Fix issues with formula calculation, Wrong number of task links after export to MPX, Loading MPP file raises an Exception and Custom fields' values are not formatted properly when saving a project to Pdf.

Overview: Aspose.Tasks Cloud

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical Project management component that enables Java applications to read, write & manage Project documents without utilizing MS Project. It supports reading MS Project Template (MPT) files as well as allows exporting project data to HTML, BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, XPS, XAML and SVG formats. It reads & writes MS Project documents in both MPP & XML formats.  Developers can read & change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations & calendars.

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WinMerge

In search of a program that may permit you to merge and combine a number of mp3 information into one? Simply specify which format, bitrate and pattern fee you need your output file, and MP3 Joiner will do the rest! Just as talked about, when you need to use it to combine the WAV from CD, obtain MP3 on-line or seize Dolby AC3, you want a powerful audio combiner to assist all codecs. Quick MP3 Cutter Joiner may be very simple-to-use; several clicks are OKAY. And it moreover helps batch decrease; you possibly can minimize a batch of MP3 data at a time. It builds MP3 Splitter (MP3 Cutter) Professional and MP3 Joiner Skilled in a single, you may lower up a big audio file into quite a few smaller objects or merge multiple audio files to a bigger one. Be capable of merge and lower up audio recordsdata of most big dimension over 4GB. The audio extractor is HDCP enabled and HDMI 1.3b compliant, to ensure compatibility with your HDMI device. Plus, the HDMI output helps resolutions as a lot as 1920×1080 (1080p) at 60Hz, to suit any HD utility. Cute Video Audio Merger Free Model can merges audio and video file right into a single video file. Free MP3 Joiner - Drag and drop (and can even convert a number of audio file sorts). • Computerized mode of Break up. MP3 Splitter Joiner and analysis, the MP3 file you just uploaded to ‘Auto. Mode ‘, after which mechanically choose the easiest way to divide for you. An excellent MP3 converter for changing into a member of audio data. works fairly fast, without errors. The processing tempo of Fre MP3 Joiner is remarkably good, as it took it beneath 5 seconds to merge songs online 21 minutes of audio. But 2016 marked a dramatic shift in how People hear. For the first time, revenue from streaming music companies eclipsed that of the decades-outdated mannequin in which listeners purchased individual songs and albums. When you merge tracks, the tracks are replaced with a single monitor containing a stereo audio file in a new copy of the music. The unique song is accessible in the My Songs browser, so you'll be able to edit the original tracks. This MP3 Merger has the pliability to hitch, merge or mix audio information with the equivalent or different codecs to MP3, MP4, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, CUE, MP+, MP1, MP2, MPC, MPP, OFR, 3GP, 3G2, OFS, SPX, TTA, WAV, WMA, WV, ALAC as supply formats. Merge multiple music tracks or audiobook chapters right into a a lot bigger one with CD quality and save as WMA, MP3, WAV, OGG and totally different audio codecs.

To merge, first put the audio objects on observe then select all objects go to File and Export in the format you desire. The exported audio will be one file. In case if there are extra tracks please mute rest which aren't needed before exporting. Another way which you could strive is Audacity that is freed from charge. Apart from that, it includes a powerful enhancing operate. So you can start to merge MP3 files into one as quickly as this system is installed. Nonetheless, it's a bit of bit complex for computer novices, because it has so many tabs on its interface. Maybe it should take you some time to get to know this program totally.

Audio Editor - Merge, Cut up And Edit is a sound modifying program for macOS. This software lets you edit any audio file in your laptop. You may instantly edit songs and recordings by chopping, copying, pasting and deleting the chosen areas. The app is simple to make use of, it can save you and open your challenge. You are able to do your all engaged on timeline, it's so convenient. In contrast with Audio Joiner, Aconvert affords yet one more possibility so as to add MP3 files, which lets you both select designated MP3 file from local folder or paste on-line audio URL directly. After that, input and join songs you ripped with Free Merge MP3. So as so as to add the second file to the primary observe click on the black arrow under the Open button on the Residence tab and select the Open and Append risk throughout the emerged drop-down menu. The other good factor when you merge mp3 information is that transferring it to completely different moveable system and gadgets is now simpler and extra convenient, compare to transferring individual monitor that may take some time to accomplish. For the format of the output file, you might choose Home windows Media Audio, Dwelling windows Media Audio Professional, MP3, and WAV. By default, the audio high quality is 128 kbps, nevertheless you might rip all of it one of the simplest ways as much as 192 Kbps within the occasion you like. X2X Free Video Audio Merger is free to download and no subscription is required. At the on-line forum for merge songs online MakeItOne it was discovered this system is intended for streams between 96 and 320 kbps. This was fairly a shock because of 100s of mp3s have been beforehand joined at sixty four kbps and at 32 kbps, all with one hundred% success. 1. Obtain and arrange this MP3 merger in your LAPTOP COMPUTER or Mac and click on Add File" to determine on the MP3 recordsdata you wish to merge. You may too select to load a folder of MP3 audios by Add File" > Add Folder". On the online discussion board for MakeItOne it was found this system is meant for streams between ninety six and 320 kbps. This was quite a shock as a result of 100s of mp3s have been beforehand joined at 64 kbps and at 32 kbps, all with 100% success. File names and music tag knowledge will likely be retrieved from an online-based database—the CDDB—mechanically. Looking out for even a extra superior online music editor able to coping with a lot of tracks at the same time? For customers trying to find a protected solution to edit their MP3 recordsdata, they'll be pleased to grasp it would not comprise harmful viruses or malware and does not embrace any inappropriate content materials, so it is good for all ages. With the 5 options above, you are in a position to merge any music recordsdata comfy. Which music merger app is your favourite? Personally, Free HD Video Converter Manufacturing facility are the most effective audio video joiner It allows to merge audio information with different format into one single files, gives the flexible and clever options for merging, editing and converting media recordsdata and there haven't any any limits on size and import codecs. 2. Capable of change the bitrate of output MP3 recordsdata. Now, go to File > Export Audio and export your merged audio file. To merge mp3 online your MP3 with Audio Joiner, linked to the service using the hyperlink that I've just provided you and choose the songs that you simply simply must merge by clicking on the Add Tracks button. We transcode all tracks to 128 kbps mp3 for streaming playback. Concatenating your plenty of music, tune, rington, mp3 data to at least one. Add your mp3 info, than click merge" button to merge. Optionally you can even play any added sound tracks and merge songs online trim the audio or music to take away the pointless audio phase before you merge them. Replacing filename1.mp3″ with the fitting url path of your data. I'm not fully understanding the part of your query about observe indications," however merging MP3 recordsdata and removing silence is a chunk of cake with Audacity.

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HP introduces Envy x360 15 laptops

HP introduced a new range of HP Envy x360 15 laptops, made for content creators with 15.6-inch OLED touch display that gets in the perfect position to work, write, watch, and play. The new HP Envy x360 15 portfolio is everything a creator needs - exceptional design and enabling creation anytime, anywhere. To enable greater display and powerful performance, the new HP Envy x360 15 portfolio comes with up to 12th Gen Intel Core EVO i7 processor integrated with Intel Iris Xe Graphics.

Today’s modern consumers – GenZs and Millennials are increasingly adopting mainstream content creation, while on-the-go or at home. Creators expect products and solutions to be as quick and smooth as possible, with access to information that interlinks work and play. The flicker-free and anti-reflection screen delivers the ultimate color accuracy even through long periods of usage, supported by Eyesafe display to reduce eyestrain. Commenting on the launch, Vickram Bedi, Senior Director - Personal Systems, HP India, said, “Today’s consumers are inspired to create, and creativity should not be encumbered by our movement or the limitations of the places we are in. With a strong legacy of delivering insights-based innovations, we at HP, are powering creators' dreams by providing the best creative experience and technology. HP's new Envy x360 15 portfolio enables content creators to express themselves through best-in-class display and smart, high-performance productivity features that liberate creativity and expression." The perfect outlet for creative expression, the portfolio features an Emoji Keyboard for faster communication, 5MP IR camera with intelligence features like Auto frame Technology and AI Noise reduction for enhanced privacy. Continuing HP’s focus on sustainable impact, the new Envy x360 15 portfolio contains ocean-bound plastic and recycled aluminum. 

Key features of the new HP Envy x360 15 are:  

Display  15.6”, OLED touch display with 100% DCI P3 color calibration and Eyesafe Certified Improved latency and greater sensitivity allow smoother transition between colours for finer details while writing, drawing, or editing with the magnetic pen attached More screen real estate with 88% screen to body ratio to see more of the screen and less scrolling More vibrant colors and deeper hues with VESA Trueback HDR 500 enabled  Design Touch and convertible for flexibility in any position 5MP camera to show the best self on a video call and IR face recognition login technology Emoji menu on Keyboard with one key for faster expression Auto frame technology to help always keep in focus during video calls Features a physical camera shutter for privacy HP QuickDrop enables smoother file transfer HP Rechargeable MPP 2.0 Tilt Pen with magnetic connection for easy accessibility Performance Up to 12th Gen Intel Core EVO i7 processor integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics Optimize performance, skin temperature and system noise in Smart Sense Bang and Olufsen audio to produce high-quality sound and experience Pre-loaded with HP Palette software it includes Concepts for sketching and HP Photo Match for quickly finding and organizing photos Fast connectivity with Intel Wi-Fi 6E (2x2) and Bluetooth 5.2 combo HP Fast Charge enables long battery life with quick charging Up to 10hrs of battery life to keep the creative gig going Pricing and availability The HP Envy x360 15 ew0037tu 12th Gen i5/8/512/FHD 250 nits is available at a starting price of INR 82999/- The HP Envy x360 15 ew0040tu 12th Gen i5/16/512/FHD 250 nits is available at a starting price of INR 86999/- THE HP Envy x360 15 ew0043tu 12th Gen i5/16/512/OLED is available at a starting price of INR 94999/- The HP Envy x360 15 ew0048tu 12th Gen i7/16/1TB/OLED is available at a starting price of INR 114999/- Read the full article

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What mods do you recommend for someone who's just getting their Morrowind modding feet wet?

The first thing I recommend to people is to try Morrowind with a bare minimum of mods first to experience the world and gameplay in its original form - this way you have a sense of how various mods come in and shake things up and can make an informed decision if you like it or not. I will purposely steer away from most graphics and content mods here since they are each a whole ‘nother ball of wax for another time, but if you’re ready to look at adding mods to the game, the starter pack which I recommend would include:

Essential Utilities

Wrye Mash Standalone - if you’re planning on installing a bunch of mods or want to swap out different graphical replacers, then Mash is a must. It’s the best mod manager for TES3. The Morrowind Modding Wiki has a fairly comprehensive article on using Mash and it may seem daunting, so I would say the two most important features for players are Installers (you can put mod packages into a folder to install/uninstall using Mash rather than cluttering your Data Files folder if you then decide to try removing a mod) and Repairing a Save Game.

mlox - this program should be used in tandem with Mash to organize your mods. This program uses an extensive database of mods to set a load order with the best chance of eliminating conflicts and errors.

Morrowind Code Patch - still actively being supported by our resident wizard, Hrnchamd, MCP was just updated to 2.3. The effect the patches included in the MCP have on the quality of life when playing cannot be overstated.

4GB Patch and Exe Optimizer - these two programs combined significantly reduce the number of CTDs you will experience while playing. Even if you don’t want to use mods, use these. Install MCP first, then 4GB Patch, then EXE Optimizer - the order is important.

Morrowind Graphics Extender XE - major graphical enhancement to the game without even updating any models or textures. I would recommend limiting your distant land to under 7 cells. Removing the artificial “veil” by being able to look across the entire island is great for screenshots, but removes some of the mystery which lends to this old game’s charm. I personally use the beta version from Hrnchamd which can be found here and have found it to be relatively stable.

tes3cmd (<– warning, direct download to latest version as of this post!) - To get to the download page yourself, follow the MW Modding Wiki instructions. I recommend this insanely powerful program to players for one primary reason: Multipatch. tes3cmd can create a patch from your entire load order to fix a number of common issues. The MW Modding Wiki has instructions for creating a batch file to help make the multipatch creation easier since tes3cmd is a command line program with no GUI.

Plugins

Morrowind Acoustic Overhaul - this mod overhauls the environmental, music, and effect sounds in the game. Even having the option to have a player voice. This mod is an impressive technical feat which will truly help immerse you in the world of Morrowind.

Morrowind Patch Project - like the unofficial patches you may be familiar with from later Bethesda titles, the MPP is an extensive bug squasher. Version 1.6.6 is the latest, but you will need to install 1.6.5b first.

Landscape and Object Fixes (assorted) - complementing the MPP, this series of fixes address a lot of visual errors such as floating objects, bad texture mapping, and visible seams.

Boats and Silt Striders - makes the “fast travel” services of boats and silt striders have a “scenic” option where you can actually ride the ship or giant flea. Excellent, must have mods. If you’re wanting another excellent transportation mod by abot, check out Guars.

Fatigue and Magicka Overhaul - managing fatigue and magicka burn in TES3 is fairly challenging. Not that it’s wrong, but this mod - along with other alternatives like it - make the systems function a bit more like TES4 and TES5 while still remaining balanced for TES3. Note: if you’re playing a magic character, you might be interested in Mastering Magicka which is a gameplay mod focused on magic users. You’ll just want to turn off its magicka regen feature if using it with this mod.

Go To Jail - instead of just getting warped outside of an Imperial Fort, you will actually serve your time if you commit a crime. This mod may be geared more towards thievish players, but it’s still a great addition to the game.

Graphic Herbalism - geared more towards magic characters, this mod makes it so if you pick from a plant, it will change visually as a helpful queue not to bother with it.

Morrowind Containers Animated - this mod makes containers open when you activate them like in the later Bethesda titles. A relatively simple mod, but to great effect.

There are so, so many more amazing mods out there. I myself keep a very full mod list when I am actually playing and not modding. Get in there on MMH and Nexus and find your own diamonds in the gold! Or feel free to ask me if you’re looking for something in particular. if you think I missed some crucial mods, feel free to let me know.

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Read Activity Codes for Primavera XER Files & Enhanced Project Export to PDF using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 18.9. This release gives users the power to read activity codes for XER files. It also fixes several issues reported with the API that further enhance the stability of the API. There are some important enhancements and bug fixes part of this release, such as Scheduling of recurring daily tasks has been fixed, Time-phased data for material resources has been fixed, Issues with formula calculation have been fixed, After exporting to MPX, the number of task links generated was wrong. This issue has also been addressed, Exceptions while loading MPP files have been handled and Custom fields’ values are now formatted properly when saved as PDF.  This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Implement reading of activity codes for XER files

Incorrect scheduling of recurring daily tasks

Wrong time-phased data for material resources

Fix issues with formula calculation

Wrong number of task links after export to MPX

Loading MPP file raises an Exception

Custom fields' values are not formatted properly when saving a project to Pdf Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saving a Project as PDF

Exporting Project Data to Primavera XER Format

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Tanj | Construction Theme (Business)

Welcome to Tanj Builder theme, a builders theme for construction companies, architects, builders and projects, real estate property developers and housing companies. Tanj Builder theme gives substance to your dream to make it real!

Tanj Builder is a tidy theme offering 2 Homepages, About page, Service Page, Why Us Page besides Our Team, Portfolios(Projects) and Blog Section (Latest News) and a Contact Us page. Moreover, the Service page offers many subpages such as Roofing, Painting, Electrician, Architecture, Construction, and Projects pages. Designed by Designthemes, a Power elite author, having developed countless themes in every niche conceivable, now offers the latest Tanj Builder’s theme. It is a delightful builder’s theme providing you with insightful pages and Plugins to run your construction site in the most efficient way possible.

Create Dynamic Content:

Tanj Builder theme is a perfect fit for showcasing your plethora of services such as residential and corporate projects. Having developed more than 150+ themes in WordPress & Shopify platform, Tanj Builders theme comes with intuitive features needed for successfully running your construction business.

Designthemes Core Features Plugin:

Tanj Builder offers this simple WordPress Plugin designed to implement core features of DesignThemes. Version 1.0 of this Plugin is integrated into the themes by DesignThemes. This Plugin is a repertoire of all the shortcodes and custom post types by Designthemes. It is compatible with Visual Composer extensions and other third party APIs. Therefore, designing of the layout and pages become a lot simpler with this Plugin.

Kirki:

Kirki is the ultimate toolkit for theme developers using the WordPress Customizer. Tanj Builder theme lets you take advantage of its advanced features and flexibility. Simply by abstracting the code, it is easy for everyone to design beautiful and meaningful UI. It helps you save time which is great! Create you panels and sections. Customize and add fields with ease.

Slider Revolution:

Slider Revolution is an innovative, responsive WordPress Slider Plugin that displays your content the beautiful way. Whether it’s a Slider, Carousel, Hero Scene … even a whole Front Page, the visual, Drag & Drop editor will let you tell your own stories in no time! Build Modern & Mobile-Friendly Presentations. Creating content using these animated content creation tools, would ensure your site will have an edge over the other sites. It’s easier than you think.

No coding needed:

The Drag & Drop Page Builder makes everyone a designer without the coding know-how! The power of Visual Composer is integrated into Tanj Builders theme. Create pages quickly with few clicks in few minutes with the help of Visual Composer and custom Tanj Builders theme shortcodes.

WP Bakery Pagebuilder:

Formerly known as Visual Composer, WP Baker Pagebuilder makes designing of a site into a simple Drag and Drop affair that everyone would simply love to get their hands on. Using the WYSIWYG-what you see is what you get-interface, it is a piece of cake to design your website like a professional!

Visual Composer Ultimate Addon:

Includes Visual Composer premium addon elements like Icon boxes, model Popups, Info Box, Interactive Banner, Flip Box, Info List & Counter. Best of all – provides A Font Icon Manager allowing users to upload/delete custom icon fonts. Parallax, Video Backgrounds, Row effects, CSS3 animations, icon fonts and much more!

Event Calendar:

The Events Calendar is a carefully crafted, extensible plugin that lets you easily share your events from your site in a beautiful way. Managing events by day, week, month or list is a breeze in Tanj Builder theme. Create your events in style and plan your events tickets and advance bookings for the events from your site. Especially the booking for flats, payments to be received before phase I of the projects and so on need to be managed in a timely manner.

Event Calendar pro:

Beautiful design, powerful & easy to use features, and impeccable support. Events Calendar PRO comes loaded with a selection of well-designed views. You control which views you share with your users on the frontend Calendar View. The classic calendar never goes out of style. Especially with this fully responsive, tooltip enabled view. View Detail, List View, Day View, Week View PRO, Map View PRO and Photo View PRO.

WooCommerce:

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control. The WooCommerce Plugin would enable you to sell online and receive payments in multiple currencies as soon as your site is configured!

WooCommerce PayPal Express Checkout Gateway:

Tanj Builder theme takes a step more in terms of ease of use for the customers. A payment gateway for PayPal Express Checkout (https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/express-checkout ) that allows you to securely sell your products and subscriptions online. Furthermore, by using the In-Context Checkout to help you meet security requirements without causing any hitch. In-Context Checkout uses a modal iFrame, hosted on PayPal’s servers. Therefore, it overlays the checkout form and provides a secure means for your customers to enter their account information. Offers an Integrated PayPal Setup which is easy to connect with PayPal.

YITH WC Wishlist:

This Wishlist is one of the most useful features of an e-commerce site. On the one hand, it encourages users to come back, allowing products tracking they consider interesting until the purchase step. On the other, if users share their Wishlist — to friends, or through social networks — this will enhance the sales and will help the promotion of your online business. Thanks to YITH WooCommerce Wishlist you could achieve all this. Among one of the most used on market, this Plugins strong point is its several features, such as the possibility for users to create multiple Wishlist in order to split products in the best way.

Google Maps:

Using the responsive style Google maps, you can easily add responsive and styled maps. The plugin allows multiple markers on each map and multiple maps on each page. Google Maps comes with a shortcode builder together with 50 colorful map styles. The shortcode is very easy to generate and the map is very easy to use. In addition, you can easily edit a previously created shortcode!

WordPress Importer:

The WordPress Importer will import the following content from a WordPress export file: Posts, pages, and other custom post types. In addition, Comments, Custom fields and post meta, Categories, tags, custom taxonomies as well as Authors and more from a WordPress export file

Contact Form 7:

Tanj Builders theme offers Contact Form 7 using which you can design as many forms with an unlimited number of input row fields in your form. You can design your own forms and limit spam and increase conversion. When you are running a site, there may be different requirements for forms to be configured from time to time. Contact Form 7 handles all.

Breeze:

Breeze is a WordPress cache plugin with extensive options to speed up your website. Breeze is a free, powerful, user-friendly WordPress Caching Plugin developed by the Cloudways team. It offers various options to optimize WordPress performance at various levels. Breeze excels in the following areas: Performance: Breeze improves website speed and resource optimization. Other features include file-level cache system, database cleanup, modification. Convenience: Breeze is easy to install and configure directly from WordPress. Simplicity: Breeze is designed to be simple for all users. Just install and activate the plugin and you’ll see the results instantaneously.

Regenerate Thumbnails:

Regenerate Thumbnails lets you regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments. This is particularly useful if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions. Or had changed to a new theme with different featured post image dimensions. You can either regenerate the thumbnails for all image uploads, individual image uploads, or specific multiple image uploads.

Shortcodes galore:

Tanj Builders theme offers a plethora of shortcodes to configure your modules like tabs, accordions, buttons, and tooltips. The shortcodes offered in Tanj Builders theme is mind-boggling. Well, almost every conceivable need has been analyzed and these shortcodes have been included. All the requirements of your site for Blockquotes, Buttons & Lists, Carousel, Columns, Contact Info, Content Shortcodes, Custom Posts, Fancy Boxes, Icon Boxes, Image With Caption, Miscellaneous, Number Counter, Pricing Table, Progress Bar, Tabs & Toggles, Team, Testimonials, Carousel Testimonials, Timeline and Typography.

Typography:

With more than 600+ Google webfonts and the FontAwesome icons, you can set any color or size in your site and design your pages at will. You will become a professional designer by adding Google Fonts with typography field. In addition, you could add tooltips to help your users.

Legendary Support:

Using the extensive documentation, knowledge base and video tutorials you can get any clarification you may require about Tanj Builders theme, 24/7.

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Images used in the demo are not included for download, these images are copyrighted, if you are planning to use the photos we can provide the links to buy a license. from ThemeForest new WordPress items http://ift.tt/2oWtotB via IFTTT

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Max Peak Power Trackers Increase Efficiency of Solar Panels in Street Lights

Max Peak Power Trackers Increase Efficiency of Solar Panels in Street Lights

Max Peak Power Trackers Increase Efficiency of Solar Panels in Street Lights

Street lighting in many municipalities accounts for almost half of expenditure. In addition to the energy bills, replacement and maintenance of low pressure sodium or metallic halide lamps pose extra prices and disruption of traffic. High Brightness LED (HBLED) primarily based solar powered street lights don’t rely upon the grid for electrical power and have the potential of saving billions of in electricity and upkeep prices. Despite their potentialities, solar street lights will not be commonplace as a result of of their value in comparison with standard options. Nevertheless, because the world appears for cleaner and greener options, solar powered street lights continue to profit from developments in the sector of semiconductors, each in photovoltaics and built-in microcontrollers, to provide cheaper implementations.While the solar radiates as much as 1000 Watts per sq. meter, a typical panel can convert solely 30% of irradiant energy to electricity. In most street lights, the energy harvested by day needs to be saved in a battery and utilizing standard cost controllers can result in additional conversion losses. As solar panels are p-n junctions, they don’t function as ultimate power sources. Instead, they’ve an working level at which the power produced is at its most and any motion away from this level will progressively lower the effectivity of the panel. In order to extract all of the energy solar panel is succesful of delivering, a completely digital system referred to as the Max Peak Power Tracker (MPPT) is required. The MPPT is a DC-to-DC converter that poses as an optimum load permitting the panel to function at its peak power state. Since the Max Peak Power Point (MPP) relies on the quantity of radiant sunlight and temperature of the panel, the MPPT should continually adapt to maximise the energy conversion.

Due to the traits of the panel, the present delivered stays regular earlier than falling dramatically as soon as the working voltage has been handed. The power produced by the panel (Voltage × Current) is highest at a particular level on the curve referred to as the knee level. When a traditional controller with out an MPPT is used to cost the 24V battery pack, the operation voltage of this PV panel is pressured to the battery voltage and in consequence the power produced by this explicit setup is round 140W. An MPPT system on the other hand, will enable the panel to function on the knee level permitting the power to be equal to 215W. In this explicit instance, the use of a MPPT system will increase the whole power harvested by 50%. Neglecting the losses in the wiring and electronics of the cost controllers and fuses, the present charging the battery in the above situation is eight.5A ((VPV Panel x IPV Panel)/VBattery = (41V x 5A)/24V) whereas the present from the solar panel is 5A.The location of the solar panel’s knee level modifications repeatedly primarily based on elements resembling the quantity of irradiant sunlight available, ambient temperature, and partial shading. Therefore, a dependable MPPT should continually replace itself to function on the various ultimate level. An MPPT succesful of actively sensing the voltage and present can measure the power and, by way of an iterative and corrective process, arrive on the max power level.

The zero slope level on the curve at all times interprets to the best power extractable from the PV panel. The worth of Itrim is various proportional to the magnitude of the slope to permit the system to rapidly method this level. Such an algorithm permits the MPPT to efficiently ‘hunt’ for the optimum working level whereas being agnostic to any panel and environmental traits.

The DC-DC conversion topology utilized by the MPPT will depend on the distinction in working voltage between PV panel and battery. Under regular charging circumstances, if the panel voltage is larger than the battery, a buck topology is used. Conversely, if the panel voltage is lesser, a lift topology will increase the charging voltage with a lowered present. In both case, the purpose of the MPPT is to keep up the present extracted from the PV panel on the peak level. This relationship is given as MPP = VPV(knee level) × IPV (knee level) = Vbattery × Ibattery + Conversion Losses. The charging present or Ibattery will depend on the obligation cycle of the DC-DC convertor which is ready by the controller primarily based on the MPPT algorithm.

The cost controller should additionally contemplate the kind of battery getting used. Street lighting purposes usually use both Lead Acid or Alkaline batteries as a result of of their excessive energy density to price ratio and talent to perform over a variety of temperatures. The voltage of these batteries needs to be continually monitored throughout the charging process to stop over charging which will result in harm in the shape of leaks or explosions. Likewise, undercharging of a battery over extended intervals of time can dramatically scale back the general capability of the battery. To prevent any product degradation, the system could disconnect all hundreds till the cost content material reaches a predetermined threshold. Properly carried out charging routines are the important thing to the longevity of a battery. The inherent means of the system to precisely management the present to the battery all through the course of the day permits superior charging routines and diagnostic features. When the quantity of irradiance reduces at nightfall, the MPP of the PV panel will scale back till energy can’t be successfully collected from the panel. This situation equivalent to diminished ambient light may be detected by the system eliminating the necessity for an ambient light sensor. Once the MPPT operation is suspended, the system can automatically change to driving the light supply.

HBLEDs are at this time’s widespread light sources for street-lighting purposes. Their elevated effectivity, low upkeep prices, and talent to breed a spread of shade temperatures are some causes behind their fast adoption. Frequent substitute of bulbs may be very expensive and improved life span of HBLED light engines is an impetus behind their use. Streetlights usually produce greater than 3000 lumens and wish massive numbers of particular person HBLEDs. Since the diodes are linked in collection to cut back present drift between particular person strings, the online ahead voltage of the LED string is normally better than the battery voltage. In such instances, a lift topology may be employed to create a step-up convertor. A switching step-up DC-DC convertor works beneath related ideas because the cost controller with the connection VLED String × ILED String = Vbattery × Ibattery – Conversion Losses. Because MPPT and LED driving require DC-DC convertors, related fixed present hysteretic controllers can be utilized for each designs. An adjustable hysteretic controller with fast response time can be utilized to create a buck or increase topology.

At the center of the design is a programmable System on a Chip (SoC), which uses onboard analog assets to continually measure VI traits of PV panel, battery and LED load. SoC gadgets just like the PowerPSoC comprise constructed in hysteretic controllers and gate drivers permitting for additional integration of the control loops.

The ‘PV Buck Hysteretic Controller’ switches the FET driver to maintain present by way of L1 regular with a good ripple. A real hysteretic controller will examine the rising and falling edges of the present to programmable thresholds. The decision of the present control is simply limited by the velocity of the hysteresis channel and the decision of the Digital to Analog Convertors (DACs) which might be producing the thresholds. A synchronous FET driver is used in the buck circuit to extend the effectivity of the system. As an extra price to effectivity trade-off, the driving force, MOSFET, and inductor L2 may be changed with a flyback Schottky diode.

The ‘LED Boost Hysteretic Controller’ receives suggestions from an analogous excessive aspect present sense amplifier to manage present by way of Boost inductor L3. An ultrafast diode D3 blocks the upper voltage at C3, which is used to drive the LED load. A proportional integral loop operating on the microcontroller of the SoC machine will allow correct regulation of LED present. This driver implementation with correctly chosen parts can conveniently yield greater than 95% effectivity. Just the MPPT performance on a PV panel cost controller can considerably enhance the energy harvesting functionality. Costs concerned in shifting away from standard cost controllers are instantly releaved by financial savings in discount of PV panel measurement. In addition, the excessive degree of analog management permits for higher lifespan from the battery lowering related upkeep prices. Integration of totally different elementary blocks into programmable SoC gadgets permits for important reductions in prices and time to market. As the world ushers in a green revolution, environment friendly and grid-independent street lights will illuminate the roads of tomorrow. Source by Rakesh Reddy

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Renumber WBS Codes & Getting Page Count for Specific Dates inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 18.2.0. This new version of API introduces a new feature of renumbering WBS Codes for tasks like Renumber function of Microsoft Project. It also provides an enhancement to get page count from a document for defined start and end dates. Aspose.Tasks for .NET API lets users work with WBS codes associated with tasks in a project. This latest release of API introduces a new feature of Renumbering WBS codes for tasks like Microsoft Project’s Renumber functionality. It lets users renumber all or selective WBS codes of tasks in a project as shown in the code sample on the blog announcement page.  This release also introduces an enhancement for getting number of pages based on specified Start and End dates. This feature can be used to get specific page count for specified dates even during conversion to various output formats. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Implement a feature for Renumber WBS codes

Provide descriptive error messages when opening corrupted MPP files

Implement GetPageCount overload depending on Start and EndDate dates

Recalculate raises exception for the attached project

Incorrect Link Type generated while saving project to MPX

Saving project file corrupts the output file

Mpp gets empty after mpp write

ResourceAssignment.GetByUid() function does not select proper entry

Project data lost after loading and saving MPP 2016 file

Exception raised while loading project from memory stream

GanttBarStyle not set for summary task

Tasks with custom time-phased data have different finish date while opened in MSP (.NET)

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Insert Style Separator to Put Different Paragraph Styles

Specify Metafile format When Exporting Document to HTML

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Set Image Quality While Exporting Project Data to JPEG & Enhanced Loading MPP Files using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 17.11.0.This release includes a new feature that allows users to set image quality while exporting project data to JPEG format. It also includes several other improvements as result of bug fixes that further enhance the API functionality. This release of Aspose.Tasks for Java API includes a new feature that lets users set the image quality while exporting project data to JPEG. The setJPEGQuality method of ImageSaveOptions lets users achieve this by providing image quality at a scale from 0 to 100, as shown in code sample on blog announcement page.  This version also includes other improvements in terms of bug fixes that add to the overall improvement of the API in terms of expected behaviour. These include exceptions while loading certain MPP files, Errors while converting Project data to PDF, Calculation issues with Calendar times set to 24 hours, Task reading exceptions while loading MPP files, Wrong calculation of Finish date and Percent Complete in MPP files, Problem with setting working days, Missing time span with SplitParts collection and Improvements in manual calculation of tasks data.  Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.

Add option to set image quality when saving as JPEG

Enum GanttBarFillPattern should have value 11 corresponding to fill pattern in MSP 2016

Exception raised while loading the mpp file

ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception if 24 Hours Calendar is set

Program hangs while setting Tsk.Start for a Task

Wrong Actual Finish date in MPP as compared to XML output

Exception raised while saving MPX as PDF

Child tasks are not rendered in PNG without saving the project first

All values of BarStyle's From and To fields are changed

Loading project file raises Exception

Saving into image by page not working properly

Percent complete not set properly in MPP

Setting Project Start date raises ArgumentOutOfRangeException (Java)

Assignment Cost is not displayed for Cost resources in Microsoft Project 2013

Text extended attribute created by formula is read as date by Aspose.Tasks (Java)

Project recalculation throws an exception with cleared ActualStart and ActualFinish properties

MSP 2010 raises error while updating and saving MPP created by Aspose.Tasks

Recalculate() is updating manually scheduled tasks

Wrong finish date calculated for ElapsedDay type duration (Java)

Prevent recalculation of manually scheduled tasks

Wrong Actual Duration in MPP file

SplitParts collection misses time span

Sub-tasks not rendered while converting MPX to PdfA1b

Wrong Finish date in XML file

Wrong Percent complete in MPP as compared to XML output

MPP shows a warning after resaving

Loading project raises ProjectReadingException

TaskReadingException while reading the MPP file

MSP 2010 raises error while updating and saving MPP created by Aspose.Tasks

Problem with a setting of working days

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Exporting Project Data to JPEG

Reading Project Data from Microsoft Project Database

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for Java

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical Java Project management component that enables Java applications to read, write & manage Project documents without utilizing MS Project. It supports reading MS Project Template (MPT) files as well as allows exporting project data to HTML, BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, XPS, XAML and SVG formats. It reads & writes MS Project documents in both MPP & XML formats.  Developers can read & change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations & calendars.

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Set Default Font When Rendering Project into PDF & Enhanced MPP Files Loading using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.12.0. This month’s release includes several improvements in terms of feature enhancements and bug fixes. Specifically, it introduces the capability of setting default font for exporting project data to PDF. This month’s release includes an enhancement for setting default font during project data conversion to PDF. Setting default font during rendering of documents helps when a font is not found on the server. In such case, default font replaces the missing font and output is not affected. This can be specified using the DefaultFontName property of the PdfSaveOptions. This release also includes fixes for issues found with the previous version of the API, such as Project reading exceptions while loading certain Project MPP files, Issues with Task Duration during recalculations, Incorrect start and finish times of resource baseline, Issues with header text while rending project data and Font information lost for MPP file. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Add support for setting a default font when a project is rendering into PDF

Task notes not saved for template file from MSP 2016

Resource assignment units raise exception when large value is set

Task duration becomes zero if multiple resources are assigned

Project reading exception while loading the MPP file

AT breaks the showing of GanttBarStyle for manual summary tasks

Resource assignment has incorrect baseline start/finish date

FontFamily not set in MPP

Header text is only changed for the default view

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saving Project Data to JPEG

Setting Default Font

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Load Project Data from MSP Database, Read/Write Rate Scale Data for MSP 2013 & Above using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 17.8.0. This release includes new feature of providing support for rate scale information in MPP files. It also includes several improvements in terms of bug fixes that further add to the overall stability of the API. From this month’s release, support for JDK 1.6 has been discontinued. From this release onwards, Aspose.Tasks for Java won’t support JDK 1.6. All Aspose customers, who are using older version of JDK and want to use this latest version of API, need to upgrade their Java version to meet the minimum requirement of API i.e. JDK 1.7 or higher. Aspose.Tasks for Java already supported reading/writing rate scale information of resource assignment for MPP 2013 and below versions. With this release, the API now supports reading and writing rate scale data for MSP 2013 and above file formats. This is as illustrated in the code sample on blog announcement page. Working with loading project data from Microsoft Project Data was supported in one of the earlier versions of API. This, however, had issues with the update of Microsoft Project Database versions update and the functionality was broken. Aspose team is glad to share that this issue has been fixed now. Users can now load Project data from Project database using this latest version of the API.  Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.                                                         

Migrate from JDK 1.6 to JDK 7

Add support for text style information

TasksReadingException while using MspDbSettings

Add support of RateScale reading/writing for MSP 2013+   New Feature

Finish date is incorrect for zero duration task using Recalculate

Empty project with one task has incorrectly filled ActualStart, ActualFinish dates

HtmlSaveOptions.Pages.Add() method does not affect page index in the title when saving as HTML

XER converted from MPP contains string EUR instead of integer currency id for resource

XER generated by Aspose.Tasks raises exception while opening it

Company Information written to MPP is not displayed in MPP

Program hangs while loading MPP into Project

MPP file raises TasksReadingException

MPP file saved by MSP 2016 ver 1706 raises exception while loading into Project

An entry with the same key already exists - exception

Exception raised while loading attached MPP

TaskReadingException while loading MPP file

MPP project cannot be saved to MemoryStream

Lookup values not created properly in MPP

TaskLink don't affect the dates from successor task while using an MPP file

Exception raised while applying constraint

Task baseline don't save to MPP file

Finish date not recalculated properly

MPP to XLSX: Resultant file doesn't contain any data

Exception is raised while loading Primavera XER file

Gantt chart task bar ends at one third of day

Tasks text style information lost while loading and saving MPP again

Error on adding a resource with 0 units to parent task

ActualFinish of a zero-day milestone task not set properly

MPP with Subproject File causes exception while loading into project

Fix difference in Task duration in MSP 2010 and 2013

MPP to XLSX: Resultant file doesn't contain any data

ExtendedAttribute Lookup values mixed up for the same task

Lookup extended attribute with CustomFieldType.Duration can't be saved along with other lookup attributes

Custom field with Cost type and lookup can't be saved to MPP

Unassigned resource assignment work rendered as 0h

TasksWritingException while resaving this MPP back

MPP to PNG: Output image is not fine

Exception while loading a project

Task duration incorrectly set to 24 hours

Unable to save MPP file        

Corrupted XML file generated while saving to OutputStream

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Read Write Rate Scale Information

Reading Project Data from Microsoft Project Database

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for Java

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical Java Project management component that enables Java applications to read, write & manage Project documents without utilizing MS Project. It supports reading MS Project Template (MPT) files as well as allows exporting project data to HTML, BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, XPS, XAML and SVG formats. It reads & writes MS Project documents in both MPP & XML formats.  Developers can read & change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations & calendars.

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Set Output JPEG Image Quality While Exporting Project Data inside .NET Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.11.0. This month’s release includes a new feature of setting output image quality while exporting project data to JPEG. Other than the new feature and enhancement, it also includes several improvements in terms of bug fixes that further add to the stability of the API. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of API documentation. This month’s release includes a new feature setting output JPEG image quality while exporting project data. This is achieved using the JpegQuality property of ImageSaveOptions class as shown in the code sample on blog announcement page. There are some other important improvements part of this release, such as Issues with recalculation method of the API for manually scheduled tasks, problems with actual duration and finish dates of MPP and XML project data files, Missing time span from split parts collection, Rendering of sub-tasks while converting MPX to PDF1b, Calculation issue with percent complete in MPP as compared to XML output, Exceptions while loading certain project files and Errors raised by Microsoft Project 2010 with MPP files generated using Aspose.Tasks API. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Add option to set image quality when saving as JPEG

Enum GanttBarFillPattern should have value 11 corresponding to fill pattern in MSP 2016

Recalculate() is updating manually scheduled tasks

Wrong finish date calculated for ElapsedDay type duration

Prevent recalculation of manually scheduled tasks

Wrong Actual Duration in MPP file

SplitParts collection misses time span

Sub-tasks not rendered while converting MPX to PdfA1b

Wrong Finish date in XML file

Wrong Percent complete in MPP as compared to XML output

Loading project raises ProjectReadingException

TaskReadingException while reading the MPP file

MSP 2010 raises error while updating and saving MPP created by Aspose.Tasks

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Saving Project Data to JPEG

Saving a Project as PDF

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Project Data Conversion to PDF, Image Formats & Project Calendar Data are Enhanced using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.8.0. This month’s release provides support for working with rate scale information in post 2013 MPP file format. It also fixes several bugs that were reported with previous version of the API. Aspose.Tasks for .NET already supported reading/writing rate scale information of resource assignment for MPP 2013 and below versions. With this release, the API now supports reading and writing rate scale data for MSP 2013 and above MPP file formats. Working with loading project data from Microsoft Project Data was supported in one of the earlier versions of API. This, however, had issues with the update of Microsoft Project Database versions update and the functionality was broken. We are glad to share that this issue has been fixed now. You can now load Project data from Project database using this latest version of the API. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Add support of RateScale reading/writing for MSP 2013+

TasksReadingException while using MspDbSettings

Error on adding a resource with 0 units to parent task

ActualFinish of a zero-day milestone task not set properly

MPP with Subproject File causes exception while loading into project

Wrong Percent complete in MPP as compared to XML output

Fix difference in Task duration in MSP 2010 and 2013

MPP to XLSX: Resultant file doesn't contain any data

ExtendedAttribute Lookup values mixed up for the same task

Lookup extended attribute with CustomFieldType.Duration can't be saved along with other lookup attributes

Custom field with Cost type and lookup can't be saved to MPP

Tsk.ActualDuration and Tsk.PercentComplete are not calculated after setting of Assn.ActualWork property

Unassigned resource assignment work rendered as 0h

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Read Write Rate Scale Information

Importing Project Data From Microsoft Project Database

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Project Recalculation Improvements & Enhanced Project Data Saving to XML inside Java Apps

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for Java 17.5.0. This month’s release is kind of maintenance release where Aspose team has fixed several bugs related to various functional areas of the API. This month’s release is sort of maintenance release where Aspose team has fixed several bugs related to API functionality. These include scenarios where loading or saving sample MPP files raised to various exceptions, Improvement in project recalculation resulting in more accurate output results, Improved project data saving to XML format where the project calendars resulted in erroneous calendar entries, Issues with Timephased data writing to output MPP file which resulted in repeated entries in output XML file and some wrong work values in certain cases, Problems with actual start and percent complete and actual duration while saving project data to MPP using the API. Moreover,  Fixing of Out of memory errors while exporting project data to image, Issues related to preserving formulas while saving project data as MPP and Differences in Tasks duration for MSP 2010 and 2016 file formats.  Below is the complete list of bug fixes and enhanced features included in this release.                                                         

Tasks with custom timephased data has Percent Complete > 100% and MSP in XML format cannot be imported.

Formulas get corrupted after file save

Loading a MPP file using Aspose.Tasks throw exception An item with the same key has already been added

Recalculation of project sets percent complete to zero on milestone tasks

Saving Project raises TaskWritingException

Erroneous calendar entry added in XML while converting MSP 2016 MPP

Out of Memory error while saving MPP to PNG

Task duration shown wrong in MSP 2016 as compared to MSP 2010

Saving MPP file hangs and never returns

Timephased data entries are repeated for AssignmentActualWork in the XML file

Timephased data not copied while saving project as MPP

Wrong Actual Start, % Complete and Actual duration calculated while saving MPP

The value of actual start of parent node set to NA while loading and saving the project

TimephasedData written to MPP File shows wrong Work Values for the Last two days

Project.getCustomProperties gives compilation error in latest release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Extended Task Attributes

Writing Metadata to MPP

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for Java

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical Java Project management component that enables Java applications to read, write & manage Project documents without utilizing MS Project. It supports reading MS Project Template (MPT) files as well as allows exporting project data to HTML, BMP, PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, XPS, XAML and SVG formats. It reads & writes MS Project documents in both MPP & XML formats.  Developers can read & change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations & calendars.

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Modify Gantt Chart View’s Text Style & Project Files Loading Enhancements using .NET

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.7.0. It includes an enhancement for adding text styles to a project’s tasks representation. We have also fixed several bugs in this month’s release which further add to the overall stability of the API. For a complete list of what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of the API in product documentation. Users can now modify Gantt chart view’s text style using the TableTextStyles collection of the API. This allows to format fields such as Color, Font style, etc. of the specified task fields in tasks list. The following code sample shows formatting of a task’s text style using this enhancement.Several bugs have been fixed in this month’s release. These are relevant to different API functionality and improve the overall API behavior in terms of expected results. Some of these include Project loading exceptions while reading certain MPP files, Errors raised by the API with the latest version of Microsoft Project upgrade 1706, Issue with lookup values not being created in MPP file, Calculation errors of project data after update, Issue with Task Links, visual display of Gantt Chart bars and Text Styling and more. This release includes plenty of new features as listed below

Add support for text style information.

Program hangs while loading MPP into Project

MPP file raises TasksReadingException

MPP file saved by MSP 2016 ver 1706 raises exception while loading into Project

An entry with the same key already exists - exception

Exception raised while loading attached MPP

TaskReadingException while loading MPP file

Aspose.Tasks is not setting the Bar color of Task and Summary task - MSP 2007

MPP project cannot be saved to MemoryStream

Lookup values not created properly in MPP

TaskLink don't affect the dates from successor task while using an MPP file

Exception raised while applying constraint

Task baseline don't save to MPP file

Finish date not recalculated properly

MPP to XLSX: Resultant file doesn't contain any data

Exception is raised while loading Primavera XER file

Gantt chart task bar ends at one third of day

Tasks text style information lost while loading and saving MPP again

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Support for Text Styling

Microsoft Project MPP File Update

Overview: Aspose.Tasks for .NET

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

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Aspose.Newsletter July 2017: Add 40+ Barcodes in SQL Reports using Visual Studio 2017& Other News

Aspose Newsletter for July 2017 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases.  It also includes information about Add 40+ Barcodes in your SQL Reports using Visual Studio 2017, Filter data in a Worksheet and Calculate Formulas in a Workbook, Rendering Complex Portions of a Word Document to Image format in Cloud, Generate and Export 10 More Barcodes in JasperReports, code example for Rotating Text inside Table Cell of a .NET PDF Document and How to Add Custom Flags to an Email Message using IMAP?

Add 40+ Barcodes in your SQL Reports using Visual Studio 2017

Just load Aspose.BarCode.ReportingServices.dll into Visual Studio 2017 toolbox and design SQL reports with barcode in it. Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is a comprehensive .NET solution for rendering linear and 2D barcode images within Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2014 Reporting Services. These barcode labels with encoded non-English characters can be rendered in BMP, JPEG, GIF and PNG formats. Users can follow these simple instructions to configure Visual Studio 2017 with Aspose.BarCode. Additionally you can go through Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services documentation for further learning and guidance. Download Free Trial.

Filter data in a Worksheet and Calculate Formulas in a Workbook

Aspose.Cells for Cloud is a platform independent REST API allowing developers to process Excel files on Cloud. The AutoFilter API filters data by Cell Value, Cell Color or by Icon and you can also calculate all formulas in a workbook using CalculateFormula API (Formula calculation engine is embedded in Aspose.Cells). Read more here.

Rendering Complex Portions of a Word Document to Image format in Cloud

Aspose.Words for Cloud now makes it possible to render portions of a word document, paragraph or section to an image format of your choice. Work with Microsoft Word Documents using the language and platform of your choice as it comes with SDKs written in 9 different languages. Read more

Generate and Export 10 More Barcodes in JasperReports

Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports adds 10 new popular barcode symbologies (SwissPostParcel, Italian Post 25, Matrix, Italian Post 25, Code32 etc) in this release. Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports now implemented a single predefined field that contains the set of fields from datasource. There is no more mixing of values for fields like CodeText and Symbology. Read more details

Code Example: How to Rotate Text inside Table Cell of a .NET PDF Document?

Table is one of the widely used elements inside PDF document to represent data and sometimes we have a requirement to rotate the text inside at 90 degrees inside and render it in the table cell. Try out this .NET code sample here.

Code Example: How to Add RichMediaAnnotation in a Java PDF Document?

Aspose.Pdf for Java supports adding RichMediaAnnotation to embed media files within the PDF document and sets video or audio player implemented as flash application. Access the complete source code example

Code Example: How to Add Custom Flags to an Email Message using IMAP?

Aspose.Email introduces a new feature in this release – adding custom flags to an email message on the server using the API’s ImapClient. Custom flags can be added to a message via AddMessageFlags method using ImageMessageFlags. Try out fully functional .NET and Java code examples here.

Code Example: How to Create PDF with PDF/A-1a in .NET and Java?

Aspose.Cells now supports PDF/A-1a compliance in PdfSaveOptions, thus allowing creating PDF with PDF/A-1a – Level A (accessible) conformance. It already supports PDF/A-1b – Level B (basic) conformance. These code snippets in .NET and Java demonstrate how to convert an Excel file to PDF compatible with PDFA-1a

Code Example: How to Print a PDF Document to Greyscale in .NET Applications?

PdfViewer class in Aspose.Pdf.Facades offers the feature to print PDF documents. Developers can print the file in default colors on a printer that is already configured with the system. Now users can also print PDF files in Grayscale using PrintAsGrayscale property in PdfViewer class. Try this code snippet for further details

Code Example: How to Export 3D Scene to GLTF 2.0 and Customize Non-PBR Material Conversion in .NET?

With Aspose.3D for .NET API – developers can start transition of 3D models to GLTF 2.0 to reap performance, portability and to gain quality benefits. GLTF 2.0 only supports PBR materials considering a flexible way for 3D content creators to specify the rendering characteristics of their surfaces. During the export of a 3D model, Aspose.3D API internally converts non-PBR materials to PBR materials. Try this code example

Updates about new Product Releases

Aspose.Total for .NET – a compilation of our latest .NET products.

Aspose.Total for Java – a compilation of our latest Java products.

Aspose.Total for Cloud – RTF compression implemented, and other enhancements.

Aspose.Total for Android – all the latest versions of our Android APIs.

Aspose.Total for SharePoint – a compilation of our latest SharePoint products.

Aspose.Total for Reporting Services– a compilation of our latest Reporting Services products

Aspose.Total for JasperReports – The latest versions of our JasperReports products.

Aspose.Words for .NET and Java – Improved rendering of SVG images within Word documents.

Aspose.Words for Android via Java 17.6 – Fully functional and features rich same like Aspose.Words for Java.

Aspose.Words for Android via Xamarin 17.6 – Fully functional and features rich like Aspose.Words for .NET.

Aspose.Words for JasperReports 17.6 – Improved export of static text in JasperReports.

Aspose.BarCode for Cloud 17.4 – Generate ClodablockF barcode and support of base64 encoded images.

Aspose.Tasks for .NET 17.5 – Improved Microsoft Project data writing to MPP file.

Aspose.Diagram for .NET and Java – Apply 3D rotation effects on Microsoft Visio shapes.

Aspose.OCR for .NET 17.6 – Improved OCR engine for faster processing of OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

Aspose.Slides for .NET, Java, SharePoint, Reporting Services and JasperReports 17.5 – Set Header / Footer on individual slides level for normal, layout and master slides.

Supporting User Groups and Conferences

Aspose is sponsoring a number of user groups and upcoming events, including:

July 21st: Tulsa TechFest 2017 – Tulsa, OK – USA

July 15: DDD Sydney – Sydney – Australia

August 12: DDD Melbourne – Melbourne – Australia

August 14-18: Visual Studio Live! Redmond – Redmond, WA – USA   

      Sponsor a user group? Get in contact: user.groups@aspose.com

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