Below is a list of added features and bug fixes that are incorporated for each minor build of OfficeWriter 4.x.

OfficeWriter 4.6.1

ExcelWriter 7.6.1

WordWriter 4.6.1

There were no changes made for 4.6.1.

Reporting Services Integration 4.6.1

Issues Resolved

• Specific formula caused "Unreadable Content" error in XLSX file processed by ExcelTemplate in SSRS
  * Opening an RDL in the OfficeWriter Designer threw a "Type Mismatch" error with certain regional settings

OfficeWriter 4.6.0

ExcelWriter 7.6.0

WordWriter 4.6.0

Features Added

• Since the WordTemplate COM-callable wrapper is no longer installed, WordWriter is no longer installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

Issues resolved

• Some files processed by WordTemplate, then WordApplication, caused errors when opened in Word 2010
• WordWriter threw an error when repeat blocks were in tables in templates created using Word 2010

Reporting Services Integration 4.6.0

Issues Resolved

• Reporting Services 2008 R2 formulas did not work in OfficeWriter Reporting Services integration for Word
  * OfficeWriter Designer did not read Reporting Services 2008 formulas from the RDL files

Installer

Features Added

• ExcelWriter COM and the WordTemplate COM-callable wrapper are no longer automatically installed during the OfficeWriter installation process. Bits are available upon request.

OfficeWriter 4.5.1

ExcelWriter 7.5.1

WordWriter 4.5.1

Issues Resolved

• WordTemplate created a corrupted file when processing two IF fields
• WordTempalte threw an exception or produced a corrupt file when processing a template with IF fields containing other fields
• Merging a document with a programmatically-created table into another document threw an index out of bounds exception
• After replacing an object in a header or footer using Element.SearchAndReplace, the next call to SearchAndReplace() threw a WordWriterException
• Watermark object can now access watermarks in input files
• Watermark was not able to insert new watermarks
• Setting some table styles using WordApplication caused formatting issues and corrupted tables
• Merging two documents using Document.Append caused corrupted output in some cases
• Opening and saving a file created using a non-English version of Word caused formatting issues

Reporting Services Integration 4.5.1

Features Added

• OfficeWriter Designer now supports reports built using Report Builder 3.0

Issues Resolved

• Reporting Services reports created with the OfficeWriter Designer broke reports when an Oracle data source was used.

Installer

Issues Resolved

• License Key Manager threw error when being run on a machine with no SoftArtisans license keys in the registry.

OfficeWriter 4.5.0

ExcelWriter 7.5.0

WordWriter 4.5.0

Features Added

• WordWriter SharePoint Integration
  • WordWriter can now use SharePoint Lists and Views as data sources
  • WordWriter can now save documents as Document Library items or List Item attachments
• New WordTemplate.SaveExtension property returns the extension of the template file that has been opened
• New Document.Append method appends one Document to another, preserving all Sections, including header and footers plus other section formatting
• WordWriter now supports Grouping and Nesting with the WordTemplate object

Issues resolved

• Improved WordTemplate support for Open Office XML format
  • Newline characters now handled correctly by WordTemplate in the Open Office XML file format
  • Support for all Open Office XML file extensions (.docm, .dotx, and .dotm all are now supported)
• Deleting table rows containing merge fields within a bookmark no longer damages the bookmark, allowing the template to populate without corrupting the output document
• Binding an empty DataTable to a template using WordTemplate.SetRepeatBlock no longer throws an exception, but instead removes bookmark
• Inserting content into a header with field no longer causes a corrupt document
• Custom styles preserved when two Document objects are merged using the Document.InsertAfter method
• Word documents with images with text wrapping settings other than "Inline with Text" no longer corrupted when opened and saved using WordApplication
• Setting TableFormatting.AutoWidth to true no longer fails to have any effect; columns set to Auto using Table.SetPreferredColumnWidthUnits will now have their widths automatically calculated

Reporting Services Integration 4.5.0

No changes were made for 4.5.0

OfficeWriter 4.1.0

ExcelWriter 7.1.0

WordWriter 4.1.0

Features Added

• WordTemplate can evaluate formulas for Word 2007 OOXML file format files (.docx/.docm). For more information, see Creating Merge Fields

Issues Resolved

• Deleting an element in a table made in Word 2007 corrupted the output document in some cases
• Deleting a row in a table also deleted the value in the first cell of the next row
• In some cases documents with embedded images threw Out of Memory exceptions
• Calling Document.Search() on a document with an empty field threw a stack overflow exception
• Inserting many images with WordTemplate caused some images not to display

Reporting Services Integration 4.1.0

Issues resolved

• OfficeWriter Designer threw an error when attempting to publish a 2008 RDL with a Report Global embedded using the Insert Formula button
• OfficeWriter Designer threw data source exception when a query was associated with a row in a table in a Word Document
• OfficeWriter Designer did not allow exporting Excel 2007 files with macros as RDLs
• OfficeWriter Designer's RDL parser thew an Unknown Exception for report model data sources with field names containing fewer than 5 characters

OfficeWriter 4.0.0

ExcelWriter 7.0.0

WordWriter 4.0.0

Featured Added

• Support for Office Open XML (OOXML) files in WordTemplate with .docx, docm, dotx, dotm file extensions
• Support for creating and viewing files in Word 2007 including:
  • Support for new themes, styles, table formatting options, hapes, charts, and diagrams
• Written in pure #C .NET and no longer depends on J# runtime
• Ability to evaluate IF fields
• New EnableNextFields property
• New SetMailMerge functionality to mimic Microsoft Word mail merge
• Improvements to performance
  • WordTemplate uses 40x less memory with OOXML files when processing large files or importing large amounts of data
  • WordTemplate is 35% when processing large binary (DOC) files
  • WordApplication is up to 6x faster when processing binary files
• HMTLtoWord open source project for importing HTML into WordWriter documents

Reporting Services Integration 4.0.0

Features Added

• 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