Open Source Pro­jects

Maier­hofer Soft­ware has de­cided in 2007 to use and sup­port open source soft­ware. Our fo­cus is to use and pro­vide open source li­braries that are avail­able for closed source projects too (by li­cence).

Mi­crosoft® .NET Frame­work

In 2009 maier­hofer soft­ware fi­nally switches its main de­vel­op­ment plat­form to the .NET frame­work. All cur­rent and fu­ture soft­ware projects are de­vel­oped on it.

NHun­spell Spell Checker, Hyphen­ation and Th­e­saurus

NHn­spell is a .NET Li­brary of the fa­mous Open Of­fice spell checker li­brary called Hun­spell, de­vel­oped by Lás­zló Németh. Pro­gram­mers can use spell check­ing, hy­phen­ation and the­saurus func­tions in their .NET ap­pli­ca­tions. We have build a .NET li­brary which can bind against spe­cially com­piled 32Bit and 64Bit li­braries of Hun­spell.

jQuery Frame­work

Our ma­jor client side script li­brary for web ap­pli­ca­tions is jQuery. We've de­vel­oped plug­ins for jquery to ease the cre­ation of great look­ing web­sites.

jQuery Back­ground Can­vas Plu­gin

Back­groundCan­vas brings 2D draw­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties into web de­sign. It can be used to draw back­ground gra­di­ents, bor­ders and boxes with round cor­ners, tabs and any other bor­der or back­ground. It's pure JavaScript and don't use im­ages. this web site is re­al­ized with the Back­groundCan­vas plugin.

jQuery Lay­out Helper Plu­gin

Lay­out helpers plugin helps to cre­ate ad­vanced lay­out in web de­sign. Cur­rently it pro­vides a sand­bag div tech­nique for text wrap­ping around im­ages.