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Edit and Refine Spreadsheet Data with Precision

August 12, 2025
Advanced cell-level tools let users enter, format, and adjust spreadsheet content effortlessly, combining accuracy with intuitive interaction.

Cell-level editing and interaction features are essential components of any modern spreadsheet application, as they directly influence how users enter, modify, and manage data at the most granular level. These capabilities go beyond basic typing to provide enhanced flexibility, control, and context, enabling users to maintain accuracy while streamlining workflows. A well-designed set of cell-level tools supports both data integrity and user productivity, ensuring that spreadsheets can handle everything from quick updates to complex, structured datasets with efficiency and precision.

Common features include:

  • Cell Comments/Tooltips enable contextual notes or guidance to be attached to specific cells, aiding collaboration and documentation.
  • Cell Formatting provides options for adjusting fonts, colors, borders, and number formats, improving both readability and visual appeal.
  • Clipboard Operations such as cut, copy, and paste simplify moving or duplicating content while preserving formatting and formulas.
  • Find / Replace simplifies locating and updating values across large datasets.
  • In-cell Data Editing allows users to enter or update values directly within a cell for faster, more intuitive workflows.
  • Inserting Columns enables users to add new vertical sections to the spreadsheet, creating space for additional data fields or reorganizing existing content without overwriting adjacent information.
  • Inserting Images enables embedding of visual elements directly into the spreadsheet for richer presentations.
  • Inserting Rows allows the addition of new horizontal entries, supporting expansion of datasets, schedules, or tables while maintaining the integrity of surrounding data.
  • Merging Cells lets users combine multiple cells into one for clear headings or layout adjustments.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Angular spreadsheet components comparison.

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Celebrating 15 Year Partnership with RadiantQ

August 11, 2025
ComponentSource and RadiantQ have worked together since 2010 to provide developers with advanced .NET component scheduling solutions.

RadiantQ is a globally recognized developer of high-quality .NET-based UI components, with a clear focus on delivering robust scheduling and planning solutions. Their suite of products empowers developers to create sophisticated project management and resource scheduling interfaces within modern applications. Their offerings span a range of platforms, making them a go-to partner for organizations building cross-platform enterprise solutions.

At the core of RadiantQ’s product line is RadiantQ WPF Gantt, a powerful control set built natively in WPF for performance and elegance. With features like effort-driven scheduling, progress tracking, localization, flexible printing, and intuitive data binding, developers gain a complete toolkit for building dynamic, enterprise-grade scheduling applications.

Through its partnership with RadiantQ, ComponentSource is able to extend a compelling catalog of UI components to its global customer base. By offering RadiantQ’s specialized Gantt solutions, ComponentSource addresses a niche for customers seeking advanced project visualization tools, while ensuring worldwide access, licensing support, and regional purchasing convenience. This collaboration reinforces ComponentSource’s role as a trusted distributor of software components from leading vendors around the world.

RadiantQ WPF Gantt is licensed per named developer. It allows royalty-free distribution within your organization. It includes a one-year subscription with support and updates, while the Source Edition adds full source code and priority support. See our RadiantQ WPF Gantt licensing page for more details.

Learn more on our RadiantQ brand page.

Preserve Tree Context in Filtered Views

August 8, 2025
SmartClient 14.1 improves large dataset filtering in JavaScript apps by keeping parent nodes visible, with no server logic or performance hit.

SmartClient is a powerful JavaScript component suite compatible with React, Vue, Angular, and more, designed for building large-scale, high-performance web apps. It offers advanced UI components, dynamic data handling, customizable grids, and responsive design. Ideal for enterprise use cases like financial analytics and real-time reporting, SmartClient supports seamless backend integration and delivers optimized performance and scalability.

SmartClient has enhanced hierarchical data handling with the included KeepParentsOnFilter setting, ensuring that parent nodes remain visible in filtered views, even when data is loaded dynamically. It loads "skeleton branches" via a complex client-driven algorithm, automatically managed by SmartClient, to maintain high performance without preloading the entire tree, meaning it doesn't require server-side programming. This is particularly useful in large datasets with load-on-demand trees, as it allows users to maintain full visibility into the structure of filtered results without losing context. By preserving the hierarchical path to matching records, this feature improves usability and clarity in tree-based components, especially in applications where understanding the parent-child relationship is critical.

SmartClient is licensed per developer and is available as both perpetual and subscription licenses. Product updates and technical support is also available. See our SmartClient licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our SmartClient product page.

Compare Data with Smarter Aggregation

July 24, 2025
Stimulsoft Reports.JS enables comparison of time-based data using aggregation functions like Average, Sum, Min, and Max to tailor charts.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS provides a robust reporting toolkit designed specifically for JavaScript applications. This library leverages a client-side architecture, offering a pure JavaScript report engine for efficient report rendering directly within web browsers. The solution includes a user-friendly report designer for building reports with various data sources and visualizations, along with a report viewer for seamless integration and display within your JavaScript applications. This eliminates the need for server-side dependencies or browser plugins, simplifying the development process for embedding powerful reporting functionalities into your web projects.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS now supports aggregation for Date Time Step, allowing developers to select from multiple data aggregation functions including Average, Sum, Min, Max, and Count. This enhancement provides greater control over how time-based data is grouped and displayed in report charts, enabling more accurate and relevant visualizations based on the specific nature of the dataset. By choosing the appropriate aggregation method, developers can optimize performance reporting, reveal insights more effectively, and better align visual outputs with analytical requirements.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Stimulsoft Reports.JS licensing page for full details.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS is available individually or as part of Stimulsoft Ultimate.

Display Data Visually using Card Layouts

July 22, 2025
DevExtreme Complete v25.1 adds a new CardView which offers an image-friendly layout ideal for presenting data beyond traditional grids.

DevExtreme Complete is a robust suite of tools by DevExpress designed to streamline the development of high-performance web applications. It includes a wide range of UI components for modern frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue, and jQuery, making it ideal for developers aiming to create responsive, cross-platform applications with ease. With features like rich data visualization, interactive grids, form controls, and adaptive layouts, it empowers developers to deliver polished and user-friendly interfaces. Whether you're building enterprise dashboards or consumer-facing apps, DevExtreme Complete provides the flexibility and power to meet complex requirements while maintaining performance and usability.

The DevExtreme Complete v25.1 release adds a new CardView component, which presents data in a card-based layout instead of the traditional grid format. It’s particularly suited to use cases like employee directories, contact lists, product catalogs, and task boards - any scenario where visual content such as images plays a central role. Each card includes a toolbar, cover image, main content area, and footer, all of which can be modified using the component's public API. This gives developers the flexibility to adapt the layout and behavior of CardView to meet specific application requirements.

To see a full list of what's new in version v25.1, see our release notes.

DevExtreme Complete is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our DevExtreme Complete licensing page for full details.

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