Spread for WinForms Features
- Windows Forms spreadsheets, MultiRow grid, stand-alone Chart, Formula Provider and the Spread Designer run-time license.
- Integrated charting engine and data visualizations for informative and effective business dashboards.
- Comprehensive Excel document support for information sharing across the Enterprise.
Embedded, Programmable Microsoft Excel Platform
Import Microsoft Excel documents and preserve complete formatting. Interact with the data in Spread from within your application, then export your spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel for portable distribution to your users. Spread supports the current versions of Excel as well as multiple Excel file formats, including Excel (2007 - current XLSX), Excel 97 (XLS), comma-delimited (CSV) and text (TXT).
Integrated Spreadsheet Chart Control
Create expressive 2D and 3D charts within your spreadsheets. Select from various chart types including Column, Line, Pie, Bar, Area, XY, Bubble, Stock, XYZ, Doughnut, Radar and Polar.
Design Time Support for Code-free Development
Without writing a single line of code, design new application forms or edit existing application forms using the Microsoft Excel-like, visual, drag-and-drop user interface. The built-in Chart Designer and UI-type editors make it easy to design stunning charts and spreadsheet dashboards.
Printing/PDF Support
Select from a wide range of printing options to customize the printing of your spreadsheets. Spread also supports printing to PDF documents. You can even take ultimate control of the printing in your code using the owner print drawing support to easily create reports on your data.
Dashboard Data Visualization
- Sparklines provide small, focused cell-level charts.
- Use Camera Shapes to bring together content from various locations within a spreadsheet.
- Immediately refresh through user interaction or programmatic updates.
- Chart support, conditional formatting, filtering and grouping.
Extensive Customization Options
The Spread for WinForms object model allows developers to customize UI elements and manage the behavior of the control by extending built-in classes and assigning custom objects.
Flexible Data Binding Support
Spread can bind to any .NET data source, and includes built-in support for displaying relational datasets. The run-time support for unbound rows and columns within bound data allows for inclusion of aggregated information or for performing what-if scenario analysis. Spread also supports binding a range of cells to a data source and providing a range of cells as a data source.
