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XPS file format – new reality of Windows Vista

The official release of Windows Vista, a new operational system by the Microsoft Corporation is a landmark event for the majority of software vendors. The vendors who are able to adjust their products to this new operating system will gain significant competitive edge.

The majority of software experts predict that the XPS (XML Paper Specification) format, a component of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), will provide the ideal tool for storing, displaying and publishing data from WPF applications. XPS is designed for fulfilling the same task as PDF: to display a document in the same way across the machines independently from the software installed. This format does not require the installation of additional components, for example fonts. At the same time, a developer who uses this format can be sure that an end user will get a document in the way it has been designed and besides, it is not possible to copy or edit data by a user.

XPS file format is actually a subset of XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) which is marketed by Microsoft as a new standard for defining the layout of a document using a mark-up language, and widely used in WPF for the creation of user interfaces.

Realizing the innovative technologies in its software products, making them available to its customers, Perpetuum Software LLC reports that Report Sharp-Shooter, the use-proven reporting engine for .NET will support the XPS file format included into the Windows Vista.

Having the long-term experience on the software development market, Perpetuum Software LLC is confident that support for advantages of the .NET Framework 3.0 and Windows Vista by the company products provides developers with significant competitive edge and releases from many problems of data transfer to end users.

The official representative of Perpetuum Software LLC declares that the official release date of a new version of Report Sharp-Shooter with support for Windows Vista capabilities will be announced later.

For more information on Report Sharp-Shooter, visit the product page:
http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Product.aspx?lang=en&pid=21&pr=xps

About Perpetuum Software LLC:
Perpetuum Software specializes in development of high-quality .NET and ASP.NET software components compatible with MS Visual Studio .NET, C# Builder, Delphi .NET and other IDEs supporting .NET Framework. Such use-proven components as Report Sharp-Shooter, Instrumentation ModelKit, OLAP ModelKit, Chart ModelKit, and other .NET components by Perpetuum Software are already well-known on the software development market and are used by developers in more than 50 countries.