Persits Software, Inc. News & Updates

AspEmail, AspEmail.NET 5.2 Released

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:30:12 EST

The new versions offer the method ValidateAddressMX which verifies if an email address actually exists by performing a DNS lookup of the MX records for the email domain and contacting the corresponding SMTP server directly.

AspEmail 5.2 also offers the method ResetAddresses for additional convenience and to be consistent with AspEmail.NET.

AspEmail.NET 5.2 also fixes several minor bugs in the EmailAgent.NET service.

Upgrading is free.

AspPDF 2.2.0.5 Released

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:30:56 EST

This service release fixes a bug in the PDF-to-Image module causing some PDFs to appear without text when converted to images while producing errors in the PdfPreview Log such as

No font in ShowText.

and similar.

AspPDF.NET 2.0.0.14777 Released

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:28 EST

This service release adds support for CMYK color space to the DrawBarcode method. It also fixes a bug causing occasional incorrect content extraction via the method PdfPage.ExtractText. Also, it fixes an alignment-related bug in the PdfAnnot.SetFieldValue method, and font-related bug in the DrawText method.

AspPDF 2.2.0.4 Released

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:28 EST

This service release fixes a bug causing the error Unknown DCT marker. while converting certain rare PDF documents to image. It also fixes a bug causing occasional incorrect content extraction via the method PdfPage.ExtractText. Also, it fixes a bug in the 1D barcode rendering module introduced by service release 2.2.0.2.

AspJpeg 2.4.0.2 Released

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:35:15 EST

The new release incorporates further enhancements to the EXIF extraction module. The EXIF field UserComment that some cameras such as RICOH use to embed scanned barcode information is now fully implemented. Several new EXIF tag definitions were added as well.

AspPDF 2.2.0.2 Released

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:51:15 EST

This service release fixes a bug causing the occasional error

Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

when using AspPDF under ASP.NET. It also fixes an alignment-related bug in the SetFieldValue method, and adds CMYK color support to the DrawBarcode method.

AspJpeg 2.4.0.1 Released

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:02:16 EST

This service release fixes a serious bug in the OpenInfo method causing it to crash when an invalid path is specified as a parameter. The release also significantly enhances the EXIF extraction module by enabling several new and fixing some existing EXIF fields.

Wow6432 Special Offer

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:25:06 EST

To honor the all-important Wow6432 node in the system registry, we are announcing the Wow6432 Special Offer: buy the 64-bit license of AspUpload, AspJpeg or AspEmail and receive a 32-bit registration key for the same product absolutely free. Wow! This is a limited-time offer, so hurry!

AspJpeg 2.4 Released

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:01:02 EST

The new version is able to preserve ICC profiles in resized images via the new property PreserveICCProfile.

EmailAgent.NET Released

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:15:47 EDT

AspEmail.NET 5.1.0.2077 accompanied by all-new EmailAgent.NET has now been officially released.

EmailAgent.NET is the .NET version of the EmailAgent message queuing service that works in tandem with AspEmail and AspEmail.NET to send queued mail.

Compared to EmailAgent, EmailAgent.NET supports multiple queues, up to 256 simultaneous SMTP sessions per queue, TLS, and improved logging. The configuration panel features a redesigned user interface.

AspPDF, AspPDF.NET Updates

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:55:12 EDT

AspPDF 2.2.0.1 and AspPDF.NET 2.0.0.13723 offer support for embedded images in their HTML-to-PDF modules and fix several major and minor bugs. AspPDF now supports PPKLite signature verification (this also requires AspEncrypt 2.6.0.3 or higher.)

EmailAgent.NET Beta Released

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:09:16 EDT

EmailAgent.NET is the .NET version of the EmailAgent message queuing service that works in tandem with AspEmail to send queued mail.

Compared to EmailAgent, EmailAgent.NET supports multiple queues, up to 256 simultaneous SMTP sessions, TLS, and better logging. The configuration panel features a redesigned user interface.

AspEmail.NET 5.1.0.2016 Service Release Available

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:09:16 EDT

This service release fixes several minor bugs and optimizes the message queue file generation process for EmailAgent.NET (soon to be beta-released.)

AspPDF.NET 2.0.0.13655 Service Release Available

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:40:12 EDT

Several minor bugs in the TIFF image processing, font management and signature verification modules have been fixed.

AspPDF, AspPDF.NET with AES Support Released

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:47:22 EDT

AspPDF 2.2 and AspPDF.NET 2.0 supporting the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher have been released. AES is also known as Rijndael.

Previous versions only supported the RC4 cipher. An attempt to use an older version of AspPDF or AspPDF.NET on an AES-encrypted document would result in the error

Decoder failed.

AspEmail.NET Released

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:17:36 EDT

AspEmail.NET, AspEmail's native .NET counterpart, is now officially released! AspEmail.NET and AspEmail are almost entirely identical in terms of functionality, but the .NET version does not need to be registered on the web server: just place the assembly Persits.Email.dll in the /Bin directory of your application.

AspEmail.NET's basic functionality is free. The premium features require a registration key.

AspJpeg 2.3 Released

Fri, 20 May 2011 10:00:01 EDT

The new version implements image rotation to arbitrary angles. Previous versions only allowed 90- and 180-degree rotations.

AspPDF 2.1 Released

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:33:00 EDT

The new version offers automatic printing functionality via the method PdfPreview.SendToPrinter. It also fixes several major and minor bugs in the text extraction, PDF-to-Image and parsing modules.

AspPDF.NET 1.9.0.12783 Service Release Available

Wed, 11 May 2011 13:33:00 EDT

This service release fixes several bugs in the text extraction and parsing modules.

AspEmail 5.1.0.2 Service Release Available

Mon, 02 May 2011 10:34:00 EDT

This service release provides a fix for a serious bug in the TLS module responsible for the error

Transport Layer Security Error #30 (SMTP): 503 5.5.2 Send hello first

occurring with some TLS-enabled SMTP servers. It also fixes several other bugs in the TLS and other modules.

AspEmail.NET Beta Released

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:33:00 EDT

AspEmail, our popular free mail-sending component now has a native .NET sibling, AspEmail.NET. This new .NET product is as feature-rich as the original COM object.

Please help us beta-test this product. We are looking forward to your feedback.

AspEncrypt 2.6.0.1 Service Release Available

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:33:00 EDT

The service release fixes a bug in the Base64 encoding module responsible for the appearance of random characters at the end of the Base64-encoded strings. It also fixes a bug in the CryptoKey.DeriveFromPassword method.

AspPDF.NET 1.9.0.12551 Service Release Available

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:59:00 EST

The new release supports the popular QR Code 2D barcode and contains a number of important enhancements in the parsing, HTML-to-PDF and signing modules.

AspPDF 2.0.0.7 Service Release Available

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:59:00 EST

The new release supports the popular QR Code 2D barcode and contains a number of important enhancements in the parsing, HTML-to-PDF and signing modules.

AspEmail 5.1.0.1 Service Release Available

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:43:00 EST

The service release fixes a bug responsible for generating the error

Transport Layer Security Error #40 (TLS): Invalid TLS version.

when the mail object is reused to send multiple emails under TLS.

It also fixes a bug responsible for cutting off a portion of a recipient's name if it contains a comma such as "John Smith, Jr."

AspPDF 2.0.0.6 Service Release Available

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:20:00 EST

The latest service release fixes a serious bug responsible for crashes on some PDF documents during PDF-to-Image conversion. It also adds supports for 16-bit images to the PDF-to-Image code.

AspUpload's sample file progress_ajax.js fixed

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:12:00 EST

We fixed the sample file progress_ajax.js implementing the Ajax-based progress bar functionality of AspUpload 3.1. The fix enables the progress bar to work better in Safari and older versions of IE. We thank our users whose invaluable feedback helped us make this important fix.

The new version of progress_ajax.js can be downloaded from http://support.persits.com/upload/progress_ajax.zip.

AspEmail 5.1 Released, TLS Support Added

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:24:00 EST

We have added support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to AspEmail 5.1. The new version can now be used with all SMTP servers requiring TLS, such as Google's smtp.gmail.com.

TLS encrypts all traffic between the email sender and SMTP server, including the authentication information (username/password), message headers, body and attachments.

Previous versions of AspEmail would generate the error 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first when attempting to connect to an SMTP server requiring TLS.

To enable the new feature, set the TLS property to True, as follows:

Mail.TLS = True

XUpload 3.2 Released

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:36:00 EST

XUpload 3.2 adds a new event to the XDownload control, SelectFolder, which enables your application to retrieve the user-selected destination folders. The new version also tightens security around the method MakeHttpRequest and fixes several bugs.

AspEncrypt 2.6 Released

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:03:00 EST

The new version of AspEncrypt offers Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) support, ability to encrypt directly with a public key, and support for the PEM public-key format.

AspUpload 3.1 Released

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST

Version 3.1 of our upload component implements Ajax-based progress bar functionality.

AspEmail 5.1 Beta with TLS Support Released

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:33:00 EST

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol encrypts all traffic between the email sender application and SMTP server. Some SMTP servers, such as Google's popular smtp.gmail.com, require TLS and reject all non-TLS-compliant senders with the error message

530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first.

In response to your numerous requests, we have added TLS support to AspEmail. The new version is now in beta. Please help us test this much-needed feature by going to www.aspemail.com and downloading AspEmail 5.1.

AspEncrypt 2.5 & New User Manual Released

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:45:00 EST

AspEncrypt, one of Persits Software's oldest and most glorious products, had been lacking a modern user manual, so we mustered up our documentation-writing talents and wrote a new one!

The new manual focuses on .NET and modern operating systems such as Windows 2008 and 7. It no longer concerns itself with obsolete features (such as 40-bit encryption) and comes with tons of new codes samples both in VB Script and C#.

We have also added a few new features to AspEncrypt itself and released version 2.5.