GroupDocs.Total for .NET

Runnable code for GroupDocs.Total for .NET — one package containing every GroupDocs document API: viewing, conversion, comparison, signing, annotation, editing, metadata, search, watermarking, merging, parsing, redaction and assembly.

The repository holds two things, for two different moments:

	What it is	Start here when you want to
Examples/	44 small console examples, one per feature, across all 13 products	Copy a working snippet for one specific task
Demos/	Two complete ASP.NET web applications	See the APIs wired into a real app end to end

Examples

Each example is a self-contained class that opens a sample file, does one thing, and writes an output — the same code published on the GroupDocs.Total documentation. Sample files sit next to the code that uses them, so an example runs with no setup.

# Run them all
dotnet run --project Examples/GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net/GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net.csproj

# List every example, then run one on its own
dotnet run --project Examples/GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net/GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net.csproj -- --list
dotnet run --project Examples/GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net/GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net.csproj -- --example ViewerRenderToHtml

Two projects share one set of example code, so every example is proven on both runtimes:

Project	Target	Package
GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Net	net8.0	GroupDocs.Total
GroupDocs.Total.Examples.CSharp.Framework	net462	GroupDocs.Total.NETFramework

See Examples/README.md for the full walkthrough.

Examples/ is generated, not hand-written. Every example is extracted from the documentation by the docs-to-code-examples pipeline, compiled, executed, and its real output published back into the docs page it came from. That is what keeps the two in step. Edit the documentation, not the generated code — a change made here is overwritten on the next run.

Demos

Complete ASP.NET applications showing document viewing, annotation, conversion, comparison, signatures, editing, metadata and search working together behind a UI.

Demo	Framework	Path
MVC	ASP.NET MVC 5	Demos/MVC
WebForms	ASP.NET WebForms	Demos/WebForms

Open the solution for the one you want in Visual Studio 2022, build, run, and browse to http://localhost:8080/. Each demo's README covers its configuration and project layout.

Requirements

For	You need
Examples/	.NET 8 SDK — the net462 project also needs .NET Framework 4.6.2 targeting packs
Demos/	.NET Framework 4.8 and Visual Studio 2022 or later

Licensing

Everything runs in evaluation mode without a license, which adds trial watermarks to output. You can request a temporary license to remove them.

• Examples read the GROUPDOCS_LIC_PATH environment variable, or pick up any *.lic file next to the executable.
• Demos load from their Licenses/ folder, or from application:licensePath in Web.config.

Resources

• Product page: GroupDocs.Total for .NET
• Documentation: docs.groupdocs.com/total/net
• Developer guide: every product, with runnable examples
• API reference: reference.groupdocs.com
• Releases: NuGet · direct download
• Free support: Forum
• Paid support: Helpdesk
• Blog: GroupDocs.Total

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.