Year after year, LEADTOOLS continues to evolve and expand capabilities in order to help developers build better and more powerful apps. Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of LEADTOOLS Version 23! This release introduces a multitude of new features including a new Excel API and Excel Web Editor, a redesigned React Medical Web Viewer, and .NET MAUI support throughout the LEADTOOLS product line.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Nearly every facet of the toolkit has been enhanced. Let's dive right in and talk about what's new!

Microsoft Build is just around the corner - May 21st-23rd and LEADTOOLS is a Featured Partner once again! Join us, peers, and Microsoft leaders to explore the latest innovations in code and application development. Build is THE premiere developer conference with topics focused on AI Development, Cloud Platform, Copilot, Data & Analytics, Developer Tools, Low-code, Security, and Windows. Catch LEADTOOLS both digitally and in Seattle again this year and read on to learn more about our sessions, giveaways, and more!

It's a new year and LEAD is excited to hit the ground running with a new event in our lineup! Next month, we'll be exhibiting at the DeveloperWeek 2024 Conference & Expo. DeveloperWeek is a two-part, hybrid conference and event series that gathers 8,000+ developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, managers, and executives to discover the latest developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools.

While it's no surprise to us that our products continue to break the mold and put powerful technology in the hands of developers, its always great to hear and be recognized for it! We are thrilled to share that we have once again won awards in multiple categories of the Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards. With countless options available out there in today's ever-evolving tech world, landing ahead of the competition and being recognized for our products is a huge achievement.

About the Awards

Visual Studio Magazine hosts an annual survey to their readers where they choose between 400+ .NET-related tools, components and services across 43 categories. The Top 3 winners of each category then gets awarded with gold, silver, or bronze and the honor of being recognized as the top products chosen and used by developers worldwide.

Incorporating accessibility features into application development needs to be an integral part of the development process. Not all software is initially designed with accessibility in mind, but because the ability to access and utilize features is not a shared experience for all individuals, it must be taken into consideration. With today being Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to highlight one of the many ways that LEADTOOLS SDKs help make technology and applications more accessible to a larger audience.

The LEADTOOLS Document Viewer is an OEM-ready, document-viewing solution with support for over 165 format types and robust features like text search, annotations, eSignatures, speech-to-text, and screen reading. With accessibility in mind, we recently updated our LEADTOOLS Document Viewer Demo to use ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes so that users are able to tab through menu items while a screen reader easily reads the items aloud. This is extremely helpful for anyone with vision impairment to be able to hear the items audibly. When developers buy LEADTOOLS, they get access to all of our fully-sourced demos and many will just package it up with some customizations for their particular application needs. Having these ARIA attributes already in this demo means that many more applications developed with LEADTOOLS will also have them!