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A JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) editor is a specialized tool designed to facilitate the manipulation and modification of JSON data within structured documents. It provides developers with an intuitive interface to directly interact with JSON objects, allowing for seamless editing, validation, and visualization of JSON data embedded within documents.

JSON is frequently used for transmitting data between a server and a client in web applications. JSON's lightweight and human-readable format makes it ideal for transmitting structured data over networks, minimizing bandwidth usage and simplifying data exchange. Widely employed across diverse domains, its platform-agnostic design and broad programming language and framework support contribute to its popularity, serving as a preferred option for facilitating interoperability among various systems and technologies.

Several Structured Document Tools offer JSON editors including:

• Oxygen XML Editor Professional incorporates a feature-rich JSON editor for seamless editing, validation, and visualization of JSON data within documents.
• Altova XMLSpy Professional XML Editor integrates a powerful JSON editor for editing, validating, and manipulating JSON data within structured documents.
• Liquid Studio JSON Editor offers intuitive tools for viewing, editing and validating JSON data within structured documents for enhanced development workflows.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Structured Document Tools.

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Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition (DsExcel, previously GcExcel) is a high-speed, small-footprint, server-side spreadsheet API that requires no dependencies on Excel. With full .NET support, you can generate, load, modify, and convert spreadsheets in .NET, .NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono, and Xamarin. Apps using the spreadsheet API can be deployed to cloud, Windows, Mac, or Linux. Its powerful calculation engine and breadth of features means you'll never have to compromise design or requirements. The interface-based API is modeled on Microsoft Excel's document object model which means you can import, calculate, query, generate, and export any spreadsheet scenario.

Formulas and functions play an important role in data analysis. Microsoft Excel provides a range of functions that simplify the extraction of key metrics during data analysis. In this pair of blog posts from MESCIUS, Software Engineer Prabhat Sharma demonstrates how to use DsExcel to implement Excel functions and other Excel-like functionalities.

Part 1 of the blog shows you how to drill into sales data and integrate the following functions:

• LOOKUP and Reference Functions
• FILTER Function
• TRANSPOSE Function

Part 2 of the blog digs into monthly budget data to show you how to use:

• SUBTOTAL
• CHOOSEROWS/CHOOSECOLS
• SUMIF/AVERAGEIF
• PMT/PPMT/IPMT
• IF combined with AND/OR

Document Solutions for Excel is licensed per developer for either one distribution location or unlimited distribution locations. Licenses are perpetual, and include a one year subscription for all software releases (including hotfixes and major releases) plus Platinum Support. See our Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition licensing page for full details.

Learn more about Document Solutions for Excel, .NET Edition.