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Spread.NET Professional 6 launched

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:41:00 GMT

MultiRow example using Spread.NET Professional.

All the features of Spread.NET plus MultiRow, Standalone Chart, Formula Provider and Spread Designer Tool for end users.

Spread.NET Professional provides advanced spreadsheet functionality which lets you create highly-specialized applications such as Financial Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Scientific and Engineering Models, Sales Analysis, Budgeting, native Microsoft Excel IO and many other business functions. It also allows you to quickly add data visualization, calculations, and easier layout options to your applications. Spread.NET Professional includes all the features found in Spread.NET plus: stand-alone charting, a formula provider, a MultiRow component for logically presenting data and a Spread Designer tool which lets your users edit or create spreadsheets.

The following editions of Spread.NET are available:

Features

Spread.NET Professional has all the features of Spread.NET such as native Microsoft Excel support, data handling, data acquisition, dashboard visualization, integrated chart controls, print and pdf support plus the following additional components:

MultiRow (GcMultiRow)

Design Your Own Tabular Screen - MultiRow offers a unique design model that is much more flexible than conventional grids and Excel sheets, where cells are confined to rows and columns. Using the MultiRow component, you can place cells in the header section or in repeating rows as easily as drawing controls on a Windows Form. It arms you with extensive power, allowing you to play around with the layout, specify any cell position or size--even overlap the cells.
Develop Your Tabular Form Input Screen Quickly - Embed any image in the MultiRow designer to use it as an underlay for your grid. You can even use an image of the actual printed form or application screen as the background image to easily copy the design onto your grid. The rich assortment of style features, from rounded borders to varied background patterns, help you to replicate your form design onto the screen.
Minimize the Learning Cost - Since MultiRow designer runs in Visual Studio, you can design tabular screens in the same way that you design forms. Find MultiRow in the Visual Studio Toolbox and control its settings in the Properties window like any other control. You can also program MultiRow in the same way that you would any standard .NET Framework control, since it implements interfaces that are compatible with standard controls for cell editing and events.
Employ it for Team Development and Large Scale Projects - You can maintain templates created in the designer as Visual Basic or C# source code, and easily manage and share templates for debugging and team development, just as you do with Windows Forms source code. You can create a user-defined cell by inheriting a built-in cell, and then reuse it in various projects. This provides flexibility and consistency, and makes long term maintenance a snap.
Easily Deploy Your Application - When you deploy an application created using MultiRow, there is no need for any special agreement or additional fees. You just include a few megabytes of redistributable runtime files. In addition, a bootstrapper is provided to make the deployment process simpler.

Stand-alone Chart (FpChart)
This standalone chart control for Windows Forms and ASP.NET allows you to create charts without a spreadsheet or any of its dependent assemblies, or move your charts outside your spreadsheet.

Formula Provider
Leverage the power of the Spread Calculation Engine to perform calculations using controls in your application - outside of Spread. Access Spreads built-in functions and Custom Function capabilities to create specialized and complex formula evaluations

Spread Designer Run-time license (FpSpreadDesigner)
Show the Spread Designer tool from your applications and let your users edit or create spreadsheets at runtime.

Upgrade to Spread.NET Professional
If you are a registered user of an earlier version of Spread, you can upgrade to this new Professional Edition. Upgrades are available for customers who have Spread.NET 6 or Spread .NET 5, Spread for Windows Forms or Spread for ASP.NET (Web Forms), Spread for .NET Bundle, or earlier COM/ActiveX versions of Spread. Upgrades are available with or without maintenance, the Maintenance plan includes all major upgrades, updates and phone support for one year.

About GrapeCity

GrapeCity has been in the software business for over 25 years. Its corporate headquarters are located in Sendai, Japan, with US headquarters in Kirkland, WA and operations spanning throughout the United States and Asia. GrapeCity is also the world's largest component vendor. Its award-winning tools benefit the leading corporations, software companies and independent consultants around the world as a cost-effective solution for building distributed enterprise-wide applications for commercial or in-house use. Along with Data Dynamics and FarPoint Technologies, both now part of GrapeCity, the company's products and those of its Tools Partners have over 500,000 users.

Spread.NET adds Sparklines and Camera Shapes

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:40:00 GMT

Showing spreadsheet data using Spread.NET.

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

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

Spread for Windows Forms supports VS2010

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:56:00 GMT

2D and 3D charts plus import/export and row/column freezing demos.

Latest update works in the client profile targets for .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 and features enhanced Spread Designer.

Spread for Windows Forms is a comprehensive spreadsheet component for Windows Forms applications that combines grid capabilities, spreadsheet functionality, fully integrated charting support and includes the ability to bind to data sources. A single control can handle up to 2 billion sheets, each with up to 2 billion rows and 2 billion columns. Spread for Windows Forms supports Microsoft Excel import/export and cross-sheet referencing. Styles and formatting can be applied at sheet, row, column and cell level. Spread for Windows Forms supports cross-sheet referencing, splitter bars, sorting, cell spanning, multiple row/column headers, bound/unbound modes. Spread for Windows Forms offers fully integrated charting support with over 85 different chart types and built-in user interface for creating and customizing charts. Maintenance Package includes all updates, major upgrades, email and forum support, and unlimited support calls for one year. FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms now includes Export to PDF, Excel-like Grouping, Excel 2007 XML Support (Office Open XML, XLSX), Floating Formula Bar and Range Selection for Formula, Automatic Completion (type ahead) and much more.

Updates in 5.0.3505.2008

VS2010 Compatible: Spread now works in the client profile targets for .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 (VS 2010 Compatible)
The Spread Designer has been enhanced.
The SaveTextFile, SaveTextFileRange, and LoadTextFile methods have new enumerations.
ActiveColumnIndex, ActiveRowIndex, ActiveColumn, ActiveRow, and ActiveCell may be -1 or null if an active cell does not exist.
The NoteStyle property has an additional enumeration.
The GetNoteStyleInfo and SetNoteStyleInfo classes have been replaced with the GetStickyNoteStyleInfo and SetStickyNoteStyleInfo classes.
The GetColumnHeaderSpanCell and GetRowHeaderSpanCell methods have been added.
If two conditional formats are set to the same cell, the second conditional format takes effect instead of the first.
The export to HTML methods now require the FarPoint.Win.Spread.Html.dll assembly

About GrapeCity FarPoint

GrapeCity FarPoint was formed by GrapeCity's acquisition of FarPoint in 2009. FarPoint Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is located in Morrisville, North Carolina. The company is a leading developer and publisher of professional components for Windows development. Its award-winning tools benefit leading corporations, software companies and independent consultants around the world as a cost-effective solution for building distributed enterprise-wide applications for commercial or in-house use. Its most popular product, Spread, is in use at such Fortune 1000 members as Boeing, EDS, Microsoft, Wachovia and Gerber, as well as The Office of the President of the United States, ATF, the Department of the Navy and many other national, state and local government agencies. Spread's appeal is not limited to the USA. It has been the number one selling component in Japan for 7 years and it has enjoyed great success through Continental Europe as well as the emerging South American marketplace.

Spread site licenses now available

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:20:00 GMT

2D and 3D charts plus import/export and row/column freezing demos.

ComponentSource offers site licenses for GrapeCity FarPoint's award winning spreadsheet component.

For the first time, cost-saving site licenses are available for all three editions of Spread. These new licenses provide an economical way to purchase Spread for use by an unlimited number of developers at a single physical address. This is also a great way to get your development teams fully licensed prior to any compliance audit. The following editions are available:

Spread for Windows Forms
A full-featured Microsoft Excel compatible WinForms spreadsheet component with hundreds of chart styles, supports importing and exporting of native Excel files and unlimited customization options.
Spread for ASP.NET
A full-featured AJAX powered Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheet component for ASP.NET with dynamic data binding, Excel import-export and allows full spreadsheet user experience within the browser.
Spread COM
A high-performance, fully customizable spreadsheet available as an ActiveX/COM component for your Microsoft Visual Studio 6 applications.

About GrapeCity FarPoint

Spread for Windows Forms 5 released

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:12:00 GMT

2D and 3D charts plus import/export and row/column freezing demos.

Latest release adds charting functionality, lossless editing of Excel files and new ribbon bar interface.

Updates in Version 5

Visualize your spreadsheet data using charts inside of Spread with FarPoint Chart for .NET

Fully integrated charting support with over 85 different chart types and built-in user interface for creating and customizing charts .
Present your data in Charts that are integrated in Spread
Present your data in Charts using the FpChart stand-alone Control(outside of Spread).

Use Chart Designer and integrated menus and dialogs to create and manipulate charts in your Spread dashboards without writing code

Use the Change Chart Type and Select Data dialogs to create your charts at design time, or allow your end-users to modify their charts at run time
Use the Chart Designer at design time or run time to modify the formatting of your charts.

Leverage the enhanced Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet features

Lossless editing of Microsoft Excel files containing macros, script code, and other previously unsupported content .
New support for Microsoft Excel import and export of shapes and charts.
New support for importing and exporting Excel 2007 workbooks using ISO-OOXML compliant passwords (new in Excel 2007 SP2).

Simplify your development using new Spread Designer capabilities to design powerful user interfaces

New ribbon bar interface similar to Microsoft Excel 2007.
Set multiline text in the header cells.
Set Microsoft Outlook®-style grouping in design time.
Set conditional formats.
Clipboard support for entire sheets.

Get a fast start with the new Quick Start Wizard

Data bindings.
Rows and columns.
And many more attributes

Perform advanced Calculations using these new functions

AverageIf
AverageIfs
CountIfs
IfError
Match
Search
SumIfs
Text

Enhance your user experience with these new and improved usability features

Sort numeric column filter lists.
Display a current row indicator.
Move multiple columns or rows.
Provide enhanced mouse interaction with buttons in cells.
Customize scrolling increments.
Use new display options for sheet titles, subtitles, row preview, and scrolling.
Provide new clipboard enhancements.
Select, move, and size shapes and charts while the sheet is zoomed.
Provide multiple links and string trimming in hyperlink cells.
Set a custom cursor for the gray area in a sheet (beyond the last row and column).
New column and group footers with calculated and formatted values.

Additional enhancements for these existing features

More control over edit mode.
Improved export of text from a sheet.
Enhance date and time data entry.
Select multiple list items in list box cells.
Customize display of text in cells and notes.
Display buttons in cells.
Display tool tips over buttons in cells.
Improved display empty values.
Display cell note indicators in any corner of the cell.
Display column sort and filter indicators for each column in any header row.
Customize images displayed for row expand/collapse, row selector, column filter, column sort, and new sheet tab indicators.
Enhanced Outlook-style grouping of data.

For more information visit:
http://www.fpoint.com/press/pdf/GrapeCity-PR-SpreadWin5-2009-12.pdf (PDF)