Features

Spread focuses on one thing - making it easy for you to develop applications that make it easy for your users to view and update their tabular data. Put Spread to work for your team today.

• Multiple Sheets
  Use Multiple Sheets to categorize your information, similar to Microsoft Excel.  
• Bound Mode
  Use in Bound mode to connect to your favorite data source to display and edit information.
• Data Presentation
  Display your data in Hierarchical view or Flat view.  
• Multiple Panes
  Display data in multiple panes and allow your user to customize their own pane view. Sort
  Programmatically sort data by rows, columns, a range of rows, a range of columns or a range of cells. Or, allow your users to easily auto sort columns simply by clicking on the column header.  
• 200 Built-in Functions
  Use the 200 built-in functions or create your own custom functions for Spread's advanced Calc Engine to evaluate.
• Printing
  Specify print ranges and print your spreadsheet data using the optional print preview.  
• Unbound Mode
  Use in Unbound mode to display and edit any data. Cell Spans
  Create cell spans to join cells together, allowing one cell to span across multiple cells to include, for example, your company logo.  
• Operation Modes
  Use the Operation modes to determine how your user can interact with Spread:
  Normal, ReadOnly, RowMode, SingleSelect, MultiSelect, ExtendedSelect.Named Styles
  Create Named Styles to define a certain style (for example; fonts, colors, cell types, etc.) and share the style with other cells. This greatly reduces your coding time and allows you to easily modify the master style so that it will update all related styles accordingly.   Intuitive
• Spread Designer
  Use the Spread Designer to save valuable development time by quickly adding data and easily designing the look of the Spread component with no coding required.
• Zoom
  Zoom in and out of the spreadsheet data.  
• Enhanced Scrolling
  Use the scrollbar tracking feature to quickly see what row you are on while scrolling through Spread's data.
• Skins
  Use any of the built-in skins to apply a consistent look across controls or quickly create and use your own custom skin. Your custom skin can be shared with your fellow developers to use across the company.  
• Selections
  Allow or prevent your user from selecting rows, columns, blocks of cells, or multiple blocks of cells.
• Open
  Open Microsoft Excel files, Spread 6 files, Spread XML files, and Text delimited files.  
• Save
  Save to Microsoft Excel, Spread XML and Text files.    
• Cell Extensibility
  In addition to our included cell types, you can create and use your own custom cell type. For example, you could display another Spread inside a cell, use another control or create your own custom control to display and use.  
• Gradients, Background Images and Alpha Blending
  Spread supports background images, alpha blending, and transparent background colors. This allows you to place background pictures in cells, on Spread so all cells bleed through the image, or even place an image on the form and have the image show through Spread.
• Enhanced Keyboard Mapping
  You have complete control over how your spreadsheet will react when the user presses any key, including function keys. For example, your could move the focus to the next cell below when the Enter key is pressed or bring up your own custom editor or a calendar when the user presses the F4 key when in a datetime cell.  
• Merge Cells
  Automatically merge cells that contain identical information for easier viewing of your data.
• Cell Overflow
  Allow cell contents to overflow to adjacent cells if the data is too long to be displayed in the cell.  
• Cell Notes
  Display pop-up cell notes, which contain your own custom text, over any cell.  
• All The Things You Expect
  Apply fonts, borders, and colors to an individual cell, range of cells or specified columns and rows.  
• AlternatingRows
  Easily customize the display by using AlternatingRows to apply your own distinct look.  
• Full Clipboard Support
  Including special paste features that you are used to in Excel.   Security
  Add security to your data by locking cells from being edited and protecting sheets.  
• Microsoft Excel Look and Feel
  If your users are familiar with Excel, they will be comfortable using Spread.   Extensible
• Models
  Spread's Models allow extensive customization.    
• Complete Cell Customization
  Spread is "Cell-centric", meaning you have full control at the cell level in addition to rows, columns and the sheet level.
  

Use Spread's celltypes or create your own to determine what kind of data can be entered into a cell, avoiding unnecessary checks and validations by the developer and providing a natural way for your user to enter data:

Button, CheckBox, Combobox, Currency, DateTime, General Formatter, Hyperlink, Mask, MultiOption, Number, Percent, Progress, Slider, or Text