A few years ago, we looked at some open source .net PDF generation tools. It is interesting to look at them again to see which ones are still maintained and which ones are out of maintenance.

There two .net ports of iText, iText.Net and iTextSharp. .iText.Net is still maintained but iTextSharp was out of maintenance. Why? iText.Net is compilation of Java code using J# and thus can catch up the new versions of iText easier. iTextSharp is a C# port with a more ambitious agenda but never realized. J# port has its danger as well; would J# support all future JDK releases?

The other tool I looked at was nfop which is a J# port of fop. Unfortunately, nfop has not been maintained either.