Latest version of award-winning product adds first-of-kind interactivity features.
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MORRISVILLE, NC - June 20, 2007 - FarPoint Technologies has announced the release of FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms version 3. The new version of the award-winning product now adds several visual display improvements such as Outlook-style grouping, annotation mode, and custom focus indicators, and interactivity features such as undo/redo and — a first-ever for grid/spreadsheet products — a data-bindable multiple-column combo box cell. This release also includes a new layer that allows most any control to be placed on a sheet as well as performance improvements for very large spreadsheets. The new version of FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms can be downloaded now from the FarPoint web site, at www.FarPointSpread.com.
"We’ve worked really hard to implement some powerful new features that will convince more developers that spreadsheets are more than just your ordinary grid," said FarPoint CEO Rick Williamson, "Our goal is to make a Windows Forms spreadsheet that is completely customizable. We hope that our customer base is as excited as we are about this new release." With the new undo/redo actions, end users can undo Clipboard operations and resizing of rows and columns.
A new child control layer allows developers to host controls on individual sheets. Other graphical improvements include an annotation mode for free-hand drawing, an animated (marquee) focus border, and gradients for headers, buttons, and progress indicator cells.
Cell type improvements include a multiple-column combo box that can be bound to a data set to allow developers to give their end users choices from bound sets. Automatic completion for combo box cells has also been added. Several new calculation functions have been added including goal-seeking capability.
FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms is a comprehensive spreadsheet component for .NET applications that combines grid capabilities, spreadsheet functionality, 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. The new features provide more flexibility for the developers and the end users to provide their own look and feel.
FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms recently won the Reader’s Choice award from Visual Studio Magazine and FarPoint Technologies was awarded by SD Times as a Top 100 innovator. Both of these awards were announced this month at Microsoft Tech Ed 2007.
FarPoint Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of professional components for enterprise-wide spreadsheet development in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. FarPoint set the standard for spreadsheet components with the world’s first spreadsheet component, Spread, and continues to set the standard in spreadsheet component architecture.
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