Spread Improves Performance

Released: Nov 7, 2013

Updates in this release

Updates in 7 v2

  • Cross-platform touch support.
  • Improved performance, 30-200% faster.
  • Dozens of new chart types (WPF, Silverlight and WinRT).
  • New Excel-like formula text box (WPF, Silverlight and WinRT).
  • Support for images, floating objects (WPF, Silverlight and WinRT).
  • Resize selected columns or rows by dragging the resize handler.
  • Automatically fit selected columns or rows by double-tapping on the handler.
  • Scroll by panning on viewport to scroll or selecting and dragging scrollbar by touch.
  • Change the range of the selection by dragging the selection handler.
  • Pop up a menu (which can include built-in or custom commands) by tapping on the selection or the active cell.
  • Zoom in and out of cells by using pinch/stretch gestures.
  • 30+ new chart types including Column, Line, Pie, Bar, Area, Bubble, Scatter, Radar, Stock, and 3D Surface.
  • You can now contain any image in its own picture layer in a sheet.
  • Place the formula text box control anywhere on the form for Excel-like formula editing.
  • Add several floating panels that can contain any UI elements.
  • Perform multiple calculations on one or more array items.
  • Improved performance for Excel file import and output and formula calculation
  • Change the border color and background of the selection indicator and match the UI theme of your application.
  • Cells now support underline and strike through font styles.
  • Save time using templates in the designer to design documents.
  • Show ToolTips to provide more information when the end user drags, scrolls, and resizes in the control at run time.
  • The data formatter now supports formatting cell values according to the culture of the system environment.
  • Spread now includes Chinese localization.