Spread.NET adds Sparklines and Camera Shapes

Version 6 lets you add column, line and win/loss Sparklines Markers to highlight specific values in your spreadsheets.

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Showing spreadsheet data using Spread.NET.

Spread.NET is an embedded Microsoft Excel spreadsheet platform for .NET development. Spread.NET is the combination of Spread for Windows Forms and Spread for ASP.NET provided as a single, multi-platform toolkit. Whether developing client applications, Web sites, or Web applications, the mission of Spread.NET is to allow developers to embed complete spreadsheet functionality into applications - without requiring Microsoft Excel. Through built-in support for Excel document import and export, Spread.NET allows you to apply complete programmatic control of user interactions with data in Excel documents - allowing you to maintain business rules, security, and data integrity.

Updates in 6

Windows Forms

Add sparkle to your sheets with Sparklines

• New Column, Line, and Win/Loss Sparklines
• Sparkline Markers to highlight specific values
• Sparkline groups to share appearance and style settings
• Built-in UI support for clipboard cut/copy/paste
• New easy-to-use sparkline APIs
• Allow your end-users to create or change sparklines using built-in dialogs
• Import/export Sparklines in Microsoft Excel 2010
• Extensible Sparkline model for creating custom Sparklines

Create advanced spreadsheet dashboards with new Camera Shapes

• A Camera Shape is a snapshot of a range of cells in a sheet that can be placed anywhere inside a sheet.
• Using camera shapes together with charts and sparklines, you can create advanced reports showing exactly the information you want, how you want it, without any spanning or merging of cells.
• Built-in UI support for clipboard cut/copy/paste
• New easy-to-use camera shape APIs
• Allow your end-users to create or change camera shapes using built-in dialogs
• Import/export camera shapes in Microsoft Excel 2003/2007/2010

Improved Excel import/export performance

• Enhancements have improved the performance by up to 50%

New Spread Designer capabilities to design powerful user interfaces

• New Sparkline Tools for creating and editing sparklines
• New camera tool for creating camera shapes and advanced spreadsheet dashboards

ASP.NET

New browser client side support

• New standards support for Internet Explorer 9.
• Enhanced client scripting to support Firefox 4.

About GrapeCity

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