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using System;
using iTextSharp.text;
using PdfRpt.Core.Contracts;
using PdfRpt.Core.Helper;
using PdfRpt.FluentInterface;

namespace PdfReportSamples.CustomCellTemplate
{
    public class CustomCellTemplatePdfReport
    {
        public IPdfReportData CreatePdfReport()
        {
            return new PdfReport().DocumentPreferences(doc =>
            {
                doc.RunDirection(PdfRunDirection.RightToLeft);
                doc.Orientation(PageOrientation.Portrait);
                doc.PageSize(PdfPageSize.A4);
                doc.DocumentMetadata(new DocumentMetadata { Author = "Vahid", Application = "PdfRpt", Keywords = "Test", Subject = "Test Rpt", Title = "Test" });
                doc.Compression(new CompressionSettings
                               {
                                   CompressionLevel = CompressionLevel.BestCompression,
                                   EnableCompression = true
                               });
            })
             .DefaultFonts(fonts =>
             {
                 fonts.Path(AppPath.ApplicationPath + "\\fonts\\irsans.ttf",
                            Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemRoot") + "\\fonts\\verdana.ttf");
             })
             .PagesFooter(footer =>
             {
                 footer.DefaultFooter(DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy"));
             })
             .PagesHeader(header =>
             {
                 header.DefaultHeader(defaultHeader =>
                 {
                     defaultHeader.ImagePath(AppPath.ApplicationPath + "\\Images\\01.png");
                     defaultHeader.Message("گزارش جدید ما");
                 });
             })
             .MainTableTemplate(template =>
             {
                 template.BasicTemplate(BasicTemplate.SnowyPineTemplate);
             })
             .MainTablePreferences(table =>
             {
                 table.ColumnsWidthsType(TableColumnWidthType.Relative);
                 table.MultipleColumnsPerPage(new MultipleColumnsPerPage
                 {
                     ColumnsGap = 20,
                     ColumnsPerPage = 2,
                     ColumnsWidth = 250,
                     IsRightToLeft = true,
                     TopMargin = 7
                 });
             })
             .MainTableDataSource(dataSource =>
             {
                 var table = new System.Data.DataTable("لیست حقوق");
                 table.Columns.Add("شخص", typeof(string));
                 table.Columns.Add("ماه", typeof(int));
                 table.Columns.Add("مبلغ", typeof(decimal));

                 var rnd = new Random();
                 for (int i = 0; i < 200; i++)
                     table.Rows.Add("شخص " + i, rnd.Next(1, 12), rnd.Next(400, 2000));

                 dataSource.DataTable(table);
             })
             .MainTableEvents(events =>
             {
                 events.DataSourceIsEmpty(message: "There is no data available to display.");
                 events.CellCreated(args =>
                     {
                         //change the background color of the cell based on the value
                         if (args.RowType == RowType.DataTableRow && args.Cell.RowData.Value != null && args.Cell.RowData.Value is decimal)
                         {
                             if ((decimal)args.Cell.RowData.Value <= 1000)
                                 args.Cell.BasicProperties.BackgroundColor = BaseColor.CYAN;
                         }
                     });
             })
             .MainTableSummarySettings(summary =>
             {
                 summary.OverallSummarySettings("جمع کل");
                 summary.PageSummarySettings("جمع صفحه");
                 summary.PreviousPageSummarySettings("نقل از ستون قبل");
             })
             .MainTableColumns(columns =>
             {
                 columns.AddColumn(column =>
                 {
                     column.PropertyName("rowNo");
                     column.IsRowNumber(true);
                     column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                     column.IsVisible(true);
                     column.Order(0);
                     column.Width(1);
                     column.HeaderCell("ردیف");
                 });

                 columns.AddColumn(column =>
                 {
                     column.PropertyName("شخص");
                     column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                     column.IsVisible(true);
                     column.Order(1);
                     column.Width(3);
                     column.HeaderCell("شخص");
                     column.ColumnItemsTemplate(t => t.CustomTemplate(new MyCustomCellTemplate()));
                 });

                 columns.AddColumn(column =>
                 {
                     column.PropertyName("ماه");
                     column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                     column.IsVisible(true);
                     column.Order(2);
                     column.Width(2);
                     column.HeaderCell("ماه");
                     column.ColumnItemsTemplate(template =>
                     {
                         template.TextBlock();
                         template.ConditionalFormatFormula(list =>
                         {
                             var cellValue = int.Parse(list.GetSafeStringValueOf("ماه", nullValue: "0"));
                             if (cellValue == 7)
                             {
                                 return new CellBasicProperties
                                 {
                                     PdfFontStyle = DocumentFontStyle.Bold | DocumentFontStyle.Underline,
                                     FontColor = new BaseColor(System.Drawing.Color.Brown),
                                     BackgroundColor = new BaseColor(System.Drawing.Color.Yellow)
                                 };
                             }
                             return new CellBasicProperties { PdfFontStyle = DocumentFontStyle.Normal };
                         });
                     });
                 });

                 columns.AddColumn(column =>
                 {
                     column.PropertyName("مبلغ");
                     column.CellsHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.Center);
                     column.IsVisible(true);
                     column.Order(3);
                     column.Width(2);
                     column.HeaderCell("مبلغ");
                     column.ColumnItemsTemplate(template =>
                     {
                         template.TextBlock();
                         template.DisplayFormatFormula(obj => obj == null ? string.Empty : string.Format("{0:n0}", obj));
                     });
                     column.AggregateFunction(aggregateFunction =>
                     {
                         aggregateFunction.NumericAggregateFunction(AggregateFunction.Sum);
                         aggregateFunction.DisplayFormatFormula(obj => obj == null ? string.Empty : string.Format("{0:n0}", obj));
                     });
                 });
             })
             .Export(export =>
                 {
                     export.ToXml();
                     export.ToExcel();
                 })
             .Generate(data => data.AsPdfFile(AppPath.ApplicationPath + "\\Pdf\\RptDataTableSample.pdf"));
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using PdfRpt.Core.Contracts;
using PdfRpt.Core.Helper;

namespace PdfReportSamples.CustomCellTemplate
{
    public class MyCustomCellTemplate : IColumnItemsTemplate
    {
        Random _rnd = new Random();

        public void CellRendered(PdfPCell cell, Rectangle position, PdfContentByte[] canvases, CellAttributes attributes)
        {
        }

        public CellBasicProperties BasicProperties { set; get; }
        public Func<IList<CellData>, CellBasicProperties> ConditionalFormatFormula { set; get; }

        public PdfPCell RenderingCell(CellAttributes attributes)
        {
            var pdfCell = new PdfPCell();
            var table = new PdfPTable(1) { RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL };

            var filePath = AppPath.ApplicationPath + "\\Images\\" + _rnd.Next(1, 5).ToString("00") + ".png";
            var photo = PdfImageHelper.GetITextSharpImageFromImageFile(filePath);
            table.AddCell(new PdfPCell(photo, fit: false)
            {
                Border = 0,                
                VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM,
                HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER
            });

            var name = attributes.RowData.TableRowData.GetSafeStringValueOf("شخص");
            table.AddCell(new PdfPCell(attributes.BasicProperties.PdfFont.FontSelector.Process(name))
            {
                Border = 0,
                HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER
            });

            pdfCell.AddElement(table);

            return pdfCell;
        }
    }
}

events.CellCreated(args =>
    {
         //change the background color of the cell based on the value
         if (args.RowType == RowType.DataTableRow && args.Cell.RowData.Value != null && args.Cell.RowData.Value is decimal)
         {
              if ((decimal)args.Cell.RowData.Value <= 1000)
                   args.Cell.BasicProperties.BackgroundColor = BaseColor.CYAN;
          }
      });

• Performance improvements in the core debugger
• Support for  .NET 6 , which can be used to build web, client and mobile apps by both Windows and Mac developers, as well as improved support for developing Azure apps
• An update UI meant to reduce complexity and which will add integration with Accessibility Insights. Microsoft plans to update the icons and add support for  Cascadia Code , a new fixed-width font for better readability
• Support for C++ 20 tooling. language standardization and Intellisense
• Integration of text chat into the  Live Share  collaboration feature
• Additional support for Git and GitHub
• Improved code search  

SeoTags Create all SEO tags you need such as meta, link, twitter card (twitter:), open graph (og:), and JSON-LD schema (structred data). 

Sample output: 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge, chrome=1" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com/" crossorigin />
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://www.google-analytics.com" crossorigin />
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com/" />
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://www.google-analytics.com" />
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://site.com/site.css" />
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://site.com/app.js" />
<link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" href="https://site.com/fonts/Font.woff2" crossorigin />
<link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" href="https://site.com/fonts/Font_Light.woff2" crossorigin />
<link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" href="https://site.com/fonts/Font_Medium.woff2" crossorigin />
<link rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" href="https://site.com/fonts/Font_Bold.woff2" crossorigin />
<link rel="preload" as="image" type="image/jpeg" href="https://site.com/uploads/image.jpg" />

<title>SEO Tags for ASP.NET Core - My Site Title</title>
<meta name="title" content="SEO Tags for ASP.NET Core - My Site Title" />
<meta name="description" content="Create all SEO tags you need such as meta, link, twitter card (twitter:), open graph (og:), and ..." />
<meta name="keywords" content="SEO, AspNetCore, MVC, RazorPages" />
<meta name="author" content="Author Name" />
<link rel="author" href="https://github.com/author-profile" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://site.com/url/" />
<link rel="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="My Site Title" href="https://site.com/open-search.xml" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Post Feeds" href="https://site.com/rss/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Post Comments" href="https://site.com/post/comment/rss" />

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="SEO Tags for ASP.NET Core" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Create all SEO tags you need such as meta, link, twitter card (twitter:), open graph (og:), and ..." />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@MySiteTwitter" />
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@MyTwitterId" />
<meta name="twitter:image" content="https://site.com/uploads/image.jpg" />
<meta name="twitter:image:width" content="1280" />
<meta name="twitter:image:height" content="720" />
<meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="Image alt" />

<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="SEO Tags for ASP.NET Core" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Create all SEO tags you need such as meta, link, twitter card (twitter:), open graph (og:), and ..." />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://site.com/url/" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="My Site Title" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://site.com/uploads/image.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="https://site.com/uploads/image.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpeg" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="1280" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="720" />
<meta property="og:image:alt" content="Image alt" />
<meta property="article:publisher" content="https://facebook.com/MySite" />
<meta property="article:author" content="https://facebook.com/MyUserId" />
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2021-07-03T13:34:41+00:00" />
<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2021-07-03T13:34:41+00:00" />
<meta property="article:section" content="Article Topic" />
<meta property="article:tag" content="SEO" />
<meta property="article:tag" content="AspNetCore" />
<meta property="article:tag" content="MVC" />
<meta property="article:tag" content="RazorPages" />
<meta property="og:see_also" content="https://site.com/see-also-1" />
<meta property="og:see_also" content="https://site.com/see-also-2" />

...

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You can learn how the .NET ecosystem works on Stackify. It consists of runtimes (.NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono for Xamarin), class libraries, and a common infrastructure (runtime tools and languages).  

Today, we’re announcing .NET Core 3.1 Preview 1. .NET Core 3.1 will be a small release focused on key improvements in Blazor and Windows desktop, the two big additions in .NET Core 3.0. It will be a long term support (LTS) release with an expected final ship date of December 2019. 

Akka.NET is an open-source actor model framework written exclusively for Microsoft.NET in C# and compatible with .NET Core. It simplifies the building of scalable, concurrent, high-throughput, and low-latency systems, making life for software developers a bit easier. Zoran Maksimovic's Akka.NET Succinctly will show readers what an actor model is and how to work with actors in Akka.NET, taking them from an actor's lifecycle through to unit testing.