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- Full SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 support
The OfficeWriter Designer now supports the embedding of Excel and Word within reports for SQL Server Reporting Services 2008. - * Add real Excel and Word to reports designed in Visual Studio 2008 \
The OfficeWriter Designer also now supports reports designed in Visual Studio 2008 and Report Builder 2.0, allowing the addition of Excel and Word versions to an existing report.
* - Office Open XML Format support \
In SoftArtisans OfficeWriter version 4, the Office Open XML format (.docx and .xlsx; .docm and .xlsm) is now supported.
* - Significant performance improvements \
Improvements with memory efficiency in underlying ExcelWriter and WordWriter DLLs can lead to significant performance gains - * Unicode Field Names in Data Markers
Data markers can now include any Unicode character except brackets [] and braces {}
* - Unicode Data Source Names with Excel Reports
Excel reports now accept any Unicode character in data source names