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Acey.ExcelX for .NET released

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:11:29 GMT

Spreadsheets created using Acey.ExcelX for .NET.

Create and manipulate Excel documents without installing Microsoft Excel.

Acey.ExcelX for .NET lets you add dynamic Excel document creation and manipulation to your apps. It is a pure C# library that can be used with any .NET Language. It lets you create Excel, CSV, Tab Delimited file formats. Features include, merging cells, freezing panes, adding comments, Hyperlinks, auto filtering and formulas.

Features

Excel, CSV and Tab Delimited file format support.
Worksheet and Chartsheet support.
Rename, insert, delete, moves and copy sheets.
Supports built-in styles and custom styles.
Import/export data from different data sources.
Output files in a web page, for users to download or open.
Read data from a stream and write data to stream.
Read and write cell values.
Set row height, column width.
Hide rows and columns.
Merge and split cells.
Groups and ungroup rows and columns.
Freeze and unfreeze panes.
Hyperlinks, auto filtering and sorting.
Cell validation.
Custom charts.

About AceyOffice

AceyOffice specializes in the manipulation of Office file formats. They provide efficient and easy to use components for software developers.

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Spread for ASP.NET improves Filtering

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:06:13 GMT

Spreadsheet created with Spread for ASP.NET

Provide a variety of filter conditions such as number, date, text and color for automatic filtering.

Spread for ASP.NET is a full-featured spreadsheet component for ASP.NET applications. It includes comprehensive Excel document support which lets you share information across the Enterprise. It's built-in charting engine and data visualizations let you easily create informative and effective dashboards for advanced business, engineering and scientific applications.

Updates in V7

Context Menus - Built-in context menu support.
Row Templates - Control the layout of multiple rows using a row template. Templates can be be customized with code or using the Spread Designer.
CSS - Use CSS to set a cells style.
Coding - Detailed IntelliSense comments can now be declared for separate JavaScript functions.
Performance - Improved performance rendering spreadsheets, PDFs and importing Excel files.
Filtering - Provide a variety of filter conditions such as number, date, text and color for automatic filtering.
Globalization - ComponentOne have added localized resources for Chinese. The Spread control will display Chinese in the Designer UI and at design time in Visual Studio. Chinese message information is also displayed during run time.
Conditional Formatting - Data bars, color scales and icon sets help you visually answer specific questions about your data. You can also highlight interesting cells or ranges of cells, emphasize unusual values and visualize data.
Designer - Design time support for custom names.

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leader in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry. The company believes the key to successful implementation of business solutions is providing customers with a premier studio of innovative components and tools. On July 1, 2012, ComponentOne and GrapeCity joined forces, creating ComponentOne, a division of GrapeCity. The US GrapeCity PowerTools division was renamed to ComponentOne.

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Spread for WinForms adds Conditional Formatting

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:07:25 GMT

Sample spreadsheet created using Spread for WinForms.

Data bars, color scales and icon sets help you visually answer specific questions about your data.

Spread for WinForms lets you add Excel compatible spreadsheet functionality into your business, engineering and scientific applications. It includes a built-in charting engine and data visualizations that let you easily create informative and effective dashboards. You can also share information across the Enterprise with comprehensive Excel document support.

Updates in V7

Filtering - Provide a variety of filter conditions such as number, date, text and color for automatic filtering.
Globalization - ComponentOne have added localized resources for Chinese. The Spread control will display Chinese in the Designer UI and at design time in Visual Studio. Chinese message information is also displayed during run time.
Conditional Formatting - Data bars, color scales and icon sets help you visually answer specific questions about your data. You can also highlight interesting cells or ranges of cells, emphasize unusual values and visualize data.
Designer - Design time support for custom names.

About ComponentOne

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Spread Studio for .NET released

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:39:23 GMT

A spreadsheet created using Spread Studio for .NET.

Excel compatible spreadsheet components for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight and WinRT.

Spread Studio for .NET is a cross-platform toolkit that allows you to embed Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet functionality into your business, engineering and scientific applications.

Updates in V7

Native Microsoft Excel dompatibility
Data visualization and analysis support
Sparklines
Filtering
Rich data interaction and display
Multiple header styling
Row and column freezing
Style settings
Cell borders

About ComponentOne

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JDD Spreadsheet Publisher released

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:30:43 GMT

Spreadsheet created using JDD Spreadsheet Publisher.

Dynamically export data into Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets.

JDD Spreadsheet Publisher takes data and renders it in Microsoft Excel workbooks. It is a toolset that can be integrated into an existing software environment and enhances your application with the ability to dynamically export database or application centric data to Microsoft Excel.

Features

Instant Business Intelligence (BI) tool.
Dynamically export data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Templates can be customized using Microsoft Excel.
Work with Excel's built-in features to create custom sheets and workbooks.
No need to use intermediate formats such as CSV.
Your development environment is Microsoft Excel.
Specify the design of the Excel report and then JDD Spreadsheet Publisher correctly adjusts relations inside the workbook.
Data formats are passed over to Excel correctly.
No insecure access on production data anymore, no need for ODBC.
Perform complex calculations using formulas or built-in analysis features.
Generate huge Excel applications with several sheets, different data sources and cascading calculations.
Service comes as a war-file, ready to be deployed on your favorite J2EE-Server.
No configuration needed.
Generic call interfaces for PL/SQL and Java.
Ready-to-use Oracle Apex application for managing report templates and SQL queries.
Basic grouping and repeating regions are implemented. Users can define data blocks that can expand in both directions, horizontally and vertically.
Supported formats include OLE2 (.xls) and OOXML (.xlsx, .xlsm).

About JDD Software

JDD Software was founded by experienced consultants and developers who primarily focus on Oracle Technologies. It is their goal to develop professional integration solutions that enhance business processes.

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GemBox.Spreadsheet improves File output support

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:45:46 GMT

Spreadsheets created using GemBox.Spreadsheet.

Version 3.7 includes write support for PDF, XPS, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WMP.

GemBox.Spreadsheet is a .NET component that enables developers to read, write, convert and print spreadsheet files from .NET applications. It requires only the .NET Framework and is many times faster than Excel automation objects. GemBox.Spreadsheet is licensed per developer/server deployment and is royalty free.

Updates in V3.7

Write support for PDF, XPS, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WMP formats.
Support for printing.
Convert spreadsheets to XpsDocument and ImageSource formats (providing a means to embed spreadsheets in WPF applications using DocumentViewer and Image controls).
Simplified API

About GemBox Software

GemBox Software was founded by a group of developers passionate about software development. As early adopters of .NET platform they soon realized that high-quality components were a necessity in modern application development. Not satisfied with slow, COM based and hard-to-use components they decided to offer something different. Their products are small, fast, standardized, well documented and inexpensive.

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Spread WinRT released

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:48:40 GMT

Sample WinRT application built using Spread WinRT.

Excel-compatible spreadsheet components for the Windows Store.

Spread WinRT lets you embed Excel spreadsheet functionality into your Windows 8 applications. You can perform data analysis using rich, built-in data visualization functionality and create customized spreadsheet templates. Spread WinRT is based on Spread's proven Excel spreadsheet engine for WPF-Silverlight development.

Features

Native Microsoft Excel Compatibility - Import data from and export data to Excel in your Windows 8 applications.
Rich Design-time Support - Create your spreadsheet layout and formatting using the rich, familiar design environment of the Spread Designer.
Data Visualization and Analysis Support - Recognize trends, isolate out-of-range values and gain a picture clear understanding of your data.
Sparklines - Tiny lightweight charts that are drawn in cells to provide a visual representation of data.
Filtering - View only the data you are interested in by filtering using familiar Excel-style filter dialogs.
Range Grouping - Use Excel-style range grouping to logically group ranges and nested ranges of data.
Rich Data Interaction and Display Support - Customize the look and feel of Spread within your application.
Multiple Header Styling - Define any number of rows and columns for the headers.
Row/Column Freezing - You can freeze any number of rows, columns or both in a sheet.
Cell Borders - Customize the appearance of the cells by setting borders for a cell or range of cells.
Style Settings - Spread for WinRT makes it easy to apply different colors and fonts to any cell, row, column, row header or column header.

About ComponentOne

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Aspose.Cells improves Data Filters support

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:03:39 GMT

Spreadsheet created using Aspose.Cells for .NET.

Aspose.Cells for .NET delivers real Excel spreadsheets in a desktop or Web server environment, without Microsoft Excel installed. It supports spreadsheet generation and other basic file formatting features. Aspose.Cells for .NET also supports a number of advanced features including manipulating content, formating cells and protecting files.

Updates in V7.3.3

Copy Sparklines using Workbook.Copy
Includes DataBar missing fields.
Read conditional formatting rules with cross-sheet formulas.
Cells.MinDataColumn and Cells.MinDataRow properties added.
Cell background colors with conditional formatting.
Pivot Table data filters supported.
Advanced data validation.
Support for reading and writing MHT files.
Support for XML maps.

About Aspose

Aspose is a leading vendor of development components and rendering extensions for platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports. Its core focus is on file management products. Aspose products support many popular file formats including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. Aspose's mission is to provide customers with high quality products complemented with fast and reliable customer support.

Spread WPF-Silverlight launched

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:02:23 GMT

Example spreadsheet created using Spread WPF-Silverlight.

Excel-compatible spreadsheet components for WPF and Silverlight.

Spread WPF-Silverlight lets you embed Microsoft Excel spreadsheet functionality into your WPF and Silverlight applications. Perform data analysis using rich, built-in data visualization functionality and create customized spreadsheet templates. Spread WPF-Silverlight is based on the award-winning, embedded Excel spreadsheet platform for .NET and ASP.NET development.

Features

Spread Designer for Rich Design-time Support - Easily create forms and add calculated cells to your spreadsheet templates without writing any code.
Data Visualization and Analysis Support - Recognize trends, isolate out-of-range values and gain a picture clear understanding of your data.
Sparklines - Spread supports the Column, Line and Win/Loss sparkline types and import/export of sparklines in Excel 2010 files.
Filtering - View only the data you are interested in by filtering using the familiar Excel-style filter dialog.
Range Grouping - Use Excel-style range grouping to logically group ranges, and nested ranges of data.
Rich Data Interaction and Display Support - Customize the look and feel of Spread within your application.
Multiple Header Styling - Fully customize the appearance of header cells, including the text, styles, gradients, spans and height/widths.
Row/Column Freezing - Freeze (make non-scrolling) any number of rows, columns or both in a sheet.
Cell Borders - Customize the appearance of the cells by setting borders for a cell or range of cells.
Style Settings - Spread makes it easy to apply different colors and fonts to any cell, row, column, row header or column header.

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ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2012 v2 released

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:36:00 GMT

ComponentOne samples showing Silverlight, WinForms, and iPhone controls.

Includes additional controls and enhancements across ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone.

ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 200 components for .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices.

Updates in 2012 v2

Studio for WinForms 2012 v2 - Adds new control designed for project management, GanttView for WinForms, as well as support for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 across the entire Studio.
Studio for Silverlight 2012 v2 - Features six new themes inspired by Microsoft Office, enhanced support for Chinese cultures in several controls, new Charting features, enhancements for Silverlight 5, and more.
Studio for WPF 2012 v2 - Six new themes inspired by Microsoft Office, enhanced support for Chinese cultures in several controls, new Charting features, a complete PDF library and more.
Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo 2012 v2 - Adds an AutoComplete control for creating user friendly apps, iCal support in EventsCalendar, plus enhancements across the control suite.
Studio for Windows Phone 2012 v2 - Supports Chinese localized resources for all controls, as well as enhancements to Chart, PdfViewer/ReportViewer, RichTextBox, DockControl, and Maps as well as six new themes inspired by Microsoft Office.

About ComponentOne

Spread.NET Professional available for VS11 Beta

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:37:00 GMT

Define formulas and display charts in Spread.NET Professional.

Download the Excel compatible .NET and ASP.NET spreadsheet components for Visual Studio 11 Beta.

Spread.NET Professional allows you to quickly add data visualization, calculations and easier layout options to your applications. Now includes support for Visual Studio 11 Beta.

Spread.NET Professional Features

Excel Compatible Spreadsheet - For advanced business, engineering and scientific applications
Dashboard Data Visualization - Integrated charting and visualizations for dashboards
Integrated Chart Control - Create expressive 2D and 3D charts within your spreadsheets
Extensive Customization - Provides an extensive and robust object model
Flexible Data Binding Support - Bind to any .NET data source or use unbound data

Further information including the Spread.NET Professional Beta download for VS11, is available on the Visual Studio 11 Beta site.

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 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.

Essential XlsIO improves binding support

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:26:00 GMT

Spreadsheets created using Syncfusion Essential XlsIO.

Version 2011 Vol 4 helps you bind business objects to template markers.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO's extensive feature set includes support for cell formatting, creating and applying custom styles, applying conditional formatting, formula processing, charts, security settings, etc. This .NET library features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries. Syncfusion Essential XlsIO does not use COM interop and is available with full 100% C# source code. Included with every XlsIO license is a one-year subscription for unlimited technical support and updates.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 2011

Binding Business Objects to Template Markers - Support has been added for binding business objects to template markers by binding a list of custom class objects to template markers. It also supports header names, images, and Enumeration-type business objects.

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation -- the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight. Syncfusion uncompromisingly strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to our customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Aspose.Cells improves formula support

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:33:00 GMT

Spreadsheet created using Aspose.Cells for .NET.

Version 7.0 lets you import Excel files from a stream without calculating all formulae.

Aspose.Cells delivers real Excel spreadsheets in a desktop or web server environment without Microsoft Excel installed on either server or user's computer. Aspose.Cells supports spreadsheet generation and other basic file formatting features. Aspose.Cells also supports a number of advanced features. These advanced features make Aspose.Cells much more convenient for developers to manipulate contents, format cells and protect files.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V7.0

Aspose.Cells for .NET

Import formulae with values from an Excel file
Import Excel files from a stream without calculating all formulae
Export to XPS files
Create write-protected XLSX files
Load data asynchronously
Supports IE9 without using compatibility mode
Set background image for a cell's Button control

Aspose.Cells for Java

Separate compiled versions of the product for different JDKs, e.g. 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
Set formulas with external references
Support for ListObjects / Tables
Support for AutoShapes Objects
Enhancements made to Shape-to-Image feature
Enhancements made to Chart-to-Image feature
Enhancements made to Sheet-to-Image feature
Enhancements made to Excel-to-PDF feature
Enhancements made to Auto-Fit Rows/Columns feature

About Aspose

Aspose is a leading vendor of .NET and Java development components, and rendering extensions for platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports. Its core focus is to offer the most complete and powerful set of file management products available. Aspose products support some of the most popular file formats in business, including: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. While its core focus is on file management products, Aspose's mission is to provide our customers with top quality products complemented by fast and reliable customer support. The company listens to its customers and produces a variety of solutions to meet the complex needs of its global audience.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO adds sorting

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:37:55 GMT

A range of XLS files generated with Syncfusion Essential XlsIO.

Version 2011 Vol 3 also adds encryption and the ability to print titles.

Updates in 2011 Vol 3

Sorting - A given range of cells can now be sorted in an XlsIO worksheet. When applying the sort feature to a row or column, the corresponding data is changed in the rows or columns. This feature is supported in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010.
Encryption- XlsIO already supports encryption and decryption for Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 files. Now, this feature enables encrypted files in Excel 2010 to be parsed and serialized using passwords. The type of encryption used in Excel 2010 is agile encryption, and Excel 2007 with Service Pack 2 can open Excel 2010 encrypted files. There will be no change in API, as it already supports Excel 2007 encrypted files.
Printing Titles - After setting the titles for rows and columns to be printed in an Excel worksheet, the same will be reflected in its converted PDF.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Syncfusion's award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to grow with you, whether you're using Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight.

GemBox.Spreadsheet adds data validation in XLSX

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:04:00 GMT

Spreadsheets created using GemBox.Spreadsheet.

Version 3.5 also adds new methods for extracting to DataTables and full support for sheet protection in XLSX.

GemBox.Spreadsheet is a .NET component that enables developers to write, read or convert spreadsheet files (XLS, CSV, XLSX, HTML or ODS) from their .NET applications using one simple API. GemBox.Spreadsheet requires only .NET Framework and is many times faster than Excel automation object. GemBox.Spreadsheet is licensed per developer, server deployment is royalty free.

Updates in V3.5

Full support for Data validation in XLSX
Collections now implement generic versions of appropriate .NET interfaces
Exporting to html supports exporting pictures
Methods for sorting
New methods for extracting to DataTable without needing to predefine DataTable
Full support for sheet protection in XLSX
Helper methods for setting Print Titles and Print Area
Support through API for print gridlines and left/right header/footer in ODS

About GemBox Software

GemBox Software was founded by a group of young people, previously working as software consultants on numerous windows development projects. Their specialty and preferred choice has always been Microsoft platform and tools. They were early adopters of .NET platform, using it since Visual Studio .NET Beta 2. High-quality components are a necessity in modern application development, enabling you to save time, boost productivity and increase quality. Their products are a testimony of their mission; small, fast, standardized and well documented.

ExtenXLS 10 adds MHTML read/write capability

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:29:19 GMT

Example Java spreadsheets created with ExtenXLS.

Also adds WorkBook Parser to increase efficiency on projects which need to extract data from large, complex workbooks.

ExtenXLS is an easy-to-use Spreadsheet automation API that allows you to read, modify and create spreadsheets from your Java applications. Written entirely in Java, ExtenXLS creates new spreadsheet files from scratch as well as from existing spreadsheet file templates. With an Excel compatibility, your template input files can range from a variety of complex legacy spreadsheets such as: surveys, checklists, what-if scenarios and historical portfolio data. With ExtenXLS a single line of code will create new spreadsheets from scratch, insert cells, numbers, formulas, charts, images, named ranges, hyperlinks, and dates. Output in a variety of formats including XLS, XML, and HTML.

Updates in 10

WorkBookParser Object provides an event-driven reader for advanced high performance read-only spreadsheet processing. The ExtenXLS WorkBookParser can read both encrypted and unencrypted XLS and XLSX input
MHTML read/write capability for reading and writing to basic HTML spreadsheets
XLSX/OOXML fidelity and performance improvements
Dozens of bug fixes and performance optimizations
Additional complex cell range expression parsing
Overhaul of sheet protection handling
Implemented advanced printer settings including setPrintArea to allow for multiple print titles
Additional XML and XSLT enhancements for converting NamedRanges to XML/HTML
Revised Docs and Sample code
25 Additional Formula functions implemented

About Extentech

Extentech Inc. is a leading developer of Java spreadsheet and development tools including Sheetster.com™, Exteria™, ExtenXLS™ Java Spreadsheet Automation Toolkit, ExtenBIS Business Intelligence Server™ and the Luminet™ Java Application server. The privately held company was founded in 1999 with headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Reference customers include major financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies worldwide such as Accenture, JP Morgan and Toyota among many others.

Spread for ASP.NET 5 updated

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:21:14 GMT

Spreadsheet content displayed in Spread for ASP.NET.

Spread for ASP.NET (previously known as Spread for Web Forms) is a spreadsheet component to add full-featured spreadsheet capabilities or highly advanced grid functionality to your ASP.NET applications. Spread for ASP.NET supports bound or unbound modes (no dataset needed), AJAX, native Microsoft Excel import/export, in-cell editing, multiple edits on multiple rows without server round trips, client-side column/row resizing, multiple sheets, searching, filtering, multiple cell types, validations, cell spans, multiple headers, sorting, complete customization at the cell level, over 300 built-in calculation functions, hierarchical display, Print to PDF and much more. Written from the ground up in C#, Spread for ASP.NET will provide your ASP.NET user with an easy and reliable, feature-rich, user-friendly online experience while giving you the extensive spreadsheet feature set.

Spread for ASP.NET is also available as part of Spread for .NET Bundle.

Updates in V5.0 Build 05.00.3520

Formatting for certain cells is now handled correctly
Column headers are now correctly exported to an Excel-formatted file
The SavePdfToResponse method now works correctly
Borders are now correctly exported to a PDF file
Certain Excel-formatted files now load correctly
The SetValue method now works correctly

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.

Syncfusion adds XMLA support to OLAP controls

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Report builder samples in Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition 2011 Vol 2 OLAP controls now support XML for Analysis (XMLA).

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes OLAP aware grid, client, chart and gauge controls. You can also build reports interactively with the included Report Designer. Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes the following individual products: Essential BI OLAP Grid WPF, Essential BI OLAP Grid ASP.NET, Essential BI OLAP Grid Silverlight, Essential BI OLAP Chart WPF, Essential BI OLAP Chart ASP.NET, Essential BI OLAP Chart Silverlight, Essential BI Client for WPF, and Essential BI Client for ASP.NET, an ad-hoc analysis tool and report builder that can be easily bound to any OLAP database.

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

All OLAP Controls

Connecting a Mondrian Server through XMLA - Now, OLAP controls support XML for Analysis (XMLA) as a standard for client applications to talk to multidimensional or OLAP data sources available in a Mondrian server. Messages are communicated back and forth using web standards - HTTP, SOAP, and XML - and the query language is MDX, most widely supported for reporting from multidimensional data stores

ASP.NET

Grid Paging Support - Essential BI Grid supports paging by way of the Pager control. With this control, larger amounts of data can be rendered with optimum performance and both CSS and child control arrangement can be fully customized
Chart Paging Support - Essential BI Chart supports paging by way of the Pager control, which optimizes performance when rendering a large amount of data. It also supports customized CSS and fully customizable child-control arrangements
Cell Selection - Essential BI Grid supports cell selection, allowing end-users to select specific value cells by performing a drag operation and display the selected cells in simple UI controls - such as a chart - through a single event

WPF

XAML Configuration Support for Grids, Charts, and Gauges - XAML configuration support provides an easier way to pass data and report-related information to a control. Just drag the control from the toolbox and give the connection string and OLAP report-related information in the XAML file itself; there is no need to define data and report-related information in code, such as C# or VB

Silverlight

Drill-through Support - Each value cell in an OLAP grid is an aggregation of fact-table values. Drill-through support allows you to view fact data contributing to the formation of each cell
Drill-Replace Support - The drill-replace feature allows you to see only an immediate child or the parent members of a selected child. This is useful when you only want to view data you're interested in and don't want to be distracted by the results of other nodes

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion updates DocIO and XlsIO in 2011 Vol 2

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

A selection of reports created with Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition.

Essential Studio Reporting Edition 2011 Vol 2 provides support for applying Word 2007/2010 built-in styles to tables.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition is an advanced reporting solution that allows you to integrate document-based reporting (PDF, Excel, Word) into your Windows and Web applications. Syncfusion Essential Studio reporting Edition includes: Essential Reports, Essential PDF, Essential XlsIO, Essential DocIO, Essential Grouping and Essential Calculate.

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

Essential DocIO

Built-in Styles for Word 2007 and 2010 - Essential DocIO provides support for applying Word's built-in styles to tables in Word 2007 and 2010 formatted documents, giving an ideal look and feel to tables
Updating TOC - Essential DocIO provides support for updating the table-of-contents field in a Word document, allowing the reader to easily navigate document content

Essential XlsIO

Template Markers - Essential XlsIO supports detecting and applying data types and number formats of template markers. Number formats and data types are applied along with data during run time

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Convert spreadsheets with Arabic text to PDF files

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:29:00 GMT

Creating spreadsheets using Aspose.Cells for .NET.

Aspose.Cells for .NET V5.3.2 also supports multiple non-sequential cell operations.

Aspose.Cells for .NET delivers real Excel spreadsheets in a desktop or Web server environment without Microsoft Excel installed on either server or user's computer. Aspose.Cells supports spreadsheet generation and other basic file formatting features. Aspose.Cells also supports a number of advanced features. These advanced features make Aspose.Cells much more convenient for developers to manipulate contents, format cells and protect files.

Updates in V5.3.2

Supports Arabic text rendering in PDF conversion
Supports calculating array constants in formulas
Supports multiple non-sequential cell operations
Supports calculating array constants in formulas
Supports MS Excel 2010 encryption
Disable/hide printing
Process dialog box
Supports changing paper source while printing
Supports setting grouped row state to 'Expanded' or 'Collapsed' on the client side

About Aspose

Read Pivot Tables in template files

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:10:00 GMT

Product List and Profit / Loss spreadsheets created with Aspose.Cells.

Aspose.Cells for Java V2.5.2 also lets you add LineShape to Excel 2007 XLSX files.

Aspose.Cells for Java delivers real Excel spreadsheets in a desktop or web server environment without Microsoft Excel installed on either server or user's computer. Aspose.Cells for Java supports spreadsheet generation and other basic file formatting features. Aspose.Cells for Java also supports a number of advanced features. These advanced features make it much more convenient for developers using Aspose.Cells for Java to manipulate contents, format cells and protect files.

Updates in V2.5.2

Now supports the ability to read Pivot Tables from template files
You can now add LineShape to Excel 2007 XLSX files
Now provides support for setting the series name when setting a chart's data source
Now supports the ability to get/set gridlines' visibility of different Worksheets in ODS files
Enhancements made to Chart-to-Image, Sheet-to-Image and Excel-to-PDF features
Enhancements made to parsing Formulas functionality
Enhancements made to copying Cells functionality

About Aspose

Aspose.Cells improves Excel-to-PDF

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:10:00 GMT

Alphabetical product list spreadsheet created with Aspose.Cells.

Aspose.Cells for .NET V5.3 also adds enhancements to Chart-to-Image feature, read/write of ODS files and auto-fit rows.

Aspose.Cells for .NET delivers real Excel spreadsheets in a desktop or web server environment without Microsoft Excel installed on either server or user's computer. Aspose.Cells supports spreadsheet generation and other basic file formatting features. Aspose.Cells also supports a number of advanced features. These advanced features make Aspose.Cells much more convenient for developers to manipulate contents, format cells and protect files.

Updates in V5.3

Chart-to-Image feature has been enhanced
Excel-to-PDF feature has been enhanced
R/W ODS files feature has been enhanced
Auto-fit rows feature has been enhanced
All features of the control now work in in Firefox.
Provides support for converting a list collection to a DataTable object.
Supports SMALL function/formula.
Imports auto-filters in Excel files.
The performance of client scripts for IE is enhanced.
Supports whether to extend maximum row/column automatically when calculating formulas.

About Aspose

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Essential XlsIO adds Essential Calculate

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

A range of XLS files generated with Syncfusion Essential XlsIO.

Syncfusion Essential Calculate is now integrated into Essential XlsIO 2011 Vol 1.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO has an extensive feature set that includes support for cell formatting, creating and applying custom styles, applying conditional formatting, formula processing, charts, security settings, etc. This .NET library features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries. Syncfusion Essential XlsIO does not use COM interop and is available with full 100% C# source code. Included with every license is a one-year subscription for unlimited technical support and updates.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

Essential Calculate is now integrated into Essential XlsIO.
The ability to read a pivot table has been implemented.

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Aspose.Cells supports digital signatures

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:58:00 GMT

Alphabetical product list spreadsheet created with Aspose.Cells.

Aspose.Cells for .NET V5.2 supports signing and validating Digital Signatures in XLSX files.

Updates in V5.2

Supports signing and validating Digital Signatures in XLSX files.
Supports reading and writing Pivot Tables in XLS and XLSX files.
Calculates Pivot Table data in cells

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Essential XlsIO adds pivot chart support

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:05:00 GMT

A range of XLS files generated with Syncfusion Essential XlsIO.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO 2010 Vol 4 also adds the ability to compress XLSX files.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential XlsIO 2010 Vol 4

Pivot chart support has been implemented
Support for an Option button has been added
Support has been added for chart title shadows
Overloads for the Open and OpenReadOnly methods of IWorkbook has been added
The NameRange property has been added to retrieve the series name range
New properties-HasFormulaStringValue and HasFormulaNumberValue-have been added to IRange
The ability to toggle leader lines in pie charts has been added
The ability to compress an XLSX file to reduce size has been added