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FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms 3 Released

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:59:02 GMT

Latest version of award-winning product adds first-of-kind interactivity features. 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

FarPoint Among ‘Top 100’ Software Innovators

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:22:09 GMT

FarPoint Technologies makes SD Times 5th annual list of ‘Top 100’ Innovators in software development. MORRISVILLE, NC — June 1, 2007 — FarPoint Technologies, Inc., has been recognized as being one of the 2007 Top 100 Innovators in the software development industry by SD Times, a leading publication in the industry. In this, the 5th annual SD Times Top 100, FarPoint was recognized in the Components category, confirming that FarPoint continues to provide innovative and market-leading component solutions. FarPoint develops spreadsheet component products for several development platforms, such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, COM, and .NET. The Innovators award came with this citation: “Never underestimate the power of a spreadsheet to view and manipulate data, and innovations keep FarPoint’s reusable functionality on the cutting edge of BizTalk, COM and .NET.” The spreadsheet is still highly relevant in today’s industry. Being picked as a Top 100 industry leader confirms this

FarPoint Live Chat

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:20:17 GMT

If the Technical Support Forum, known for its quick response, isn't quick enough for you, then join us for FarPoint Live Chat (at http://www.clubfarpoint.com/Chat/). It started back in December of last year, when we thought we would try something new to keep communication with customers easy and fun. We opened a weekly chat session for technical support as well as for sales questions about our products. We started it as an experiment, but every week, customers or potential customers find us and keep asking questions, so we have continued the tradition of the Thursday afternoon chat sessions. That's afternoon Eastern Time (ET) (or GMT minus 5:00 hours), for the eastern United States. Well, word has gotten out and customers in Europe have expressed an interested in participating. Because of the time difference between Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA, where our American headquarters are located, and most parts of Europe, we now offer a weekly live chat session at 10:0

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk® Server Adds New Options

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:51:04 GMT

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk® Server Adds New Options

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk® Server Adds New Options
Pipeline component for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 supports multiple schemas and file types.

MORRISVILLE, NC — May 17, 2007 — FarPoint Technologies, Inc., a world leader in enterprise spreadsheet solutions, announces the immediate availability of the new version of FarPoint Spread for BizTalk®. Adding to the already successful pipeline disassembler for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, FarPoint Spread for BizTalk codelessly automates the parsing of XLS message streams into XML message streams without the need for Microsoft Excel. Tested with the latest BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta, this latest version of FarPoint Spread for BizTalk makes integrating Excel data into your BizTalk application as easy as drag and drop.

Responding to customer requests, this version of FarPoint Spread for BizTalk now supports comma-delimited (CSV) and tab-delimited (TXT) Exce

FarPoint Spread For Web Forms 3 Released!

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:32:48 GMT

We are happy to announce that the new version is available for immediate purchase and download. Following are some helpful links related to the release: Product Tour: http://www.FarPointSpread.com/netproducts/spreadweb/tour/default.aspx What's New: http://www.FarPointSpread.com/netproducts/spreadweb/whatsnew.aspx Feature Overview: http://www.FarPointSpread.com/netproducts/spreadweb/details.aspx Pricing: http://www.FarPointSpread.com/netproducts/spreadweb/pricing.aspx FarPoint Spread for Web Forms Home Page http://www.FarPointSpread.com/netproducts/spreadweb/spread.aspx Trial Download: http://www.clubfarpoint.com/FarPointSupportSite/Modules/Download/trials.aspx?pcode=spreadweb Thanks to all the testers and to the Spread team! - Donald

FarPoint Spread for Web Forms and the asp.netPRO Reader Choice Awards

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:22:08 GMT

If you have found FarPoint Spread for Web Forms to be the best APS.NET spreadsheet for your application development, feel free to let others know about it.

It’s that time of year again for the asp.netPRO Reader Choice Awards. The voting has begun on the asp.netPRO Website. Each year, asp.netPRO recognizes outstanding products and vendors in the ASP.NET add-on market. Please take a moment to select FarPoint Spread for Web Forms and your other favorite ASP.NET tools. This is your chance to voice your opinions regarding the tools and products you use in your everyday development efforts and let readers know how great FarPoint Spread is.

FarPoint Spread Award Winning Product

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:36:09 GMT

ComponentSource®, the largest marketplace and community for reusable software components, announced its new annual Awards. The winners of the first annual awards for 2006 for both leading publishers and also individual products are listed on their site. The awards are given to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers and the Top 100 Bestselling Products, based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year (2006) through ComponentSource.
As a company, FarPoint Technologies received a “Top 10 Publisher Award” and our products won awards as well:
    * FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms, which placed 6th in the Top 10 Product Awards,
    * FarPoint Spread COM (ActiveX/DLL), and
    * FarPoint Spread for Web Forms.

FarPoint Releases Updates to .NET Products

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:49:20 GMT

We have released updates to our newest .NET products,
FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms and FarPoint Spread for Web Forms (both version 2.5).
These updates are available for download on the Updates page on Tech Support site.
There are versions for the 1.x .NET framework (VS2002/2003) and 2.0 .NET framework (VS2005).
Also, the latest online docs are available at the Support site as well . Coming soon are even more features in the 3.0 versions of these products, and these are currently in beta.

New Partnership Program

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:32:04 GMT

The best way for us to succeed in reaching BizTalk customers is through Connected Services and Business Process Consultants and Integrators. With that in mind we have established the FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Consultants and Integrators Partnership program. This program has the goal of creating synergy between FarPoint and our partners so that our partners are able to reliably and effortlessly include FarPoint Spread for BizTalk as part of their integration solutions.

We do not desire to have our partners present FarPoint Spread for BizTalk to their clients; but rather, we hope to provide our partners with the ability to include the functionality of the component as part of their feature list when implementing solutions for their clients.

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk is a tool that our partners can use in their implementations that saves them time in implementation and deliver integration benefits and productivity gains to their customers. We are dedicated to the suc

Microsoft Webcast of FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Now Online

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:07:17 GMT

In case you missed the live Webcast, we invite you to watch the recorded Microsoft Friday BizTalk technical brown-bag Webcast titled "Unlocking XLS Files in a BizTalk Process" presented by Robby Powell, Product Manager, FarPoint Spread SOA Components.
The Webcast introduces FarPoint Spread for BizTalk, a BizTalk pipeline disassembler that takes incoming Excel XLS data streams, and parses them into XML that maps to a schema created at design time in Visual Studio 2005. This presentation includes a demonstration of how to create a schema for an Excel XLS file without doing any coding, and how to receive Excel XLS email attachments into BizTalk orchestrations using Visual Studio 2005, BizTalk Server 2006, and FarPoint Spread for BizTalk.
The length is just under 50 minutes and can be viewed by finding the LiveMeeting link on our site.

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk - Technical Brown Bag Webcast

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:52:52 GMT

You can now watch and listen to the latest Microsoft BizTalk Server Technical Brown Bag Webcast. It features Robby Powell, of FarPoint presenting FarPoint Spread for BizTalk. It is entitled, "Unlock Your Excel XLS Data with Spread for BizTalk." The webcast is part of the Microsoft BizTalk Server Technical Brown Bag Webcast series. Erik Leaseburg, the guy in charge of this Webcast series, has indicated to us that our presentation was one of the largest in attendance yet. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us via blog comments, forum postings, or emails.

FarPoint Publishes Section 508 VPATs for .NET Products

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:17:21 GMT

FarPoint now makes information about Section 508 (accessibility) compliance of its .NET products available on our Web site: www.FarPointSpread.com/Section508/. The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) documents are available for the FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms and FarPoint Spread for Web Forms and FarPoint Input Pro for Windows Forms products. The Web page also provides some helpful links for anyone interested in VPATs in particular or accessibility in design in general.

FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms 3 Beta Available

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:49:28 GMT

The beta for the next major version of FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms (.NET) is ready for testing! Please send an email to beta@FarPointSpread.com if you would like to join the beta program now.

BizTalk 2006 Technical Brown Bag Webcast

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:57:32 GMT

Please join us for a presentation in the Microsoft BizTalk 2006 Technical Brown Bag Webcast series! Our presentation, Unlock Your Excel XLS Data, will show you how to parse XLS to XML without doing any coding using FarPoint Spread for BizTalk. Sign up now.

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server Updated

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:22:32 GMT

Included in this release of FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server 2006 is support for multiple schemas through the Document schema property, and support for comma-delimited (*.csv) and tab-delimited (*.txt) files. For more information please contact Pete Willis PeteW@FarPointSpread.com.

FarPoint Spread for Web Forms Beta 3 Available

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:19:28 GMT

We are very excited about the new features that have been added, as we’re sure you will be too. Please send an email to beta@FarPointSpread.com if you would like to join the beta program for FarPoint Spread for Web Forms (ASP.NET).

Live Tech Chat!

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:29:55 GMT

We can't think of an easier, more immediate way to make ourselves available and answer your questions more directly (except seeing us in person) than with online chat. Chime on in to the conversation and join us for the next chat session!

FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server Released

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:36:09 GMT

We have released FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server 2006. For more information see our Web site at www.FarPointSpread/BizTalk.

Check out the FarPoint Shirt Gallery!

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:23:08 GMT

Over the past year, we’ve been running a promotion offering FarPoint Spread tshirts and we’re now getting pictures sent back to us. If you received a shirt, send us your pictures now and we’ll add them to the gallery!

New Training Videos Posted

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:05:49 GMT

Further to our blog posting, we have posted several new videos that you can download now: Create Custom Data Models – Part 1 and 2, Using the Shapes layer, Getting Started using Spread for Web Forms with VS 2005 and more.

FarPoint Launches AJAX Developer Resource Center

Thu, 25 May 2006 11:24:58 GMT

Find a range of resources about developing applications with AJAX, from how-to's and whitepapers, to conferences and demos. This resource center is available from FarPoint as a service to the developer community. See more at www.fpoint.com/ajax/.

VSJ Review of FarPoint Spread .NET Products

Wed, 10 May 2006 16:45:49 GMT

Read what VSJ (Visual Systems Journal) magazine has to say about FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms (.NET) and FarPoint Spread for Web Forms (ASP.NET) in their product review!

FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms 2.5 Released

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:39:05 GMT

We are happy to announce that the new version of FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms is available for immediate purchase and download!

Spread for Web Forms 2.5 Released!

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:40:18 GMT

We are happy to announce that the new version is available for immediate purchase and download:
http://www.clubfarpoint.com/FarPointSupportSite/Modules/Download/trials.aspx?pcode=spreadweb

Here's the link for full product information with an updated tour:
http://www.fpoint.com/netproducts/spreadweb/spread.aspx

Thanks to all the testers and the Spread team!

- Donald

New Technical Articles Posted

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:55:58 GMT

We have posted new articles on using several of our Spread products. Read them now.

FarPoint is Blogging

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:48:57 GMT

Tech Ed Europe 2005

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:19:54 GMT

Nice little perk for those who attend. We'll be there by teh way. Be sure to stop by and say hi to Rick, Neil and Chris. You can win one of several iPod shuffles as well.

PDC's coming

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:17:57 GMT

What makes for a good session?

New section added to VS 2005 site

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:16:51 GMT

MSDN Forums: Questions needing answers

C# or VB.Net?

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:14:32 GMT

Nice little comparison

Podcasts from Tech Ed

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:13:10 GMT

A list of podcasts from Tech Ed 2005

Interview with Hejlsberg

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:21:36 GMT

C#'s architect and then some.

Using P/Invoke?

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:17:34 GMT

Might want to read this.

Great reflection article...

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:15:11 GMT

...up on teh MSDN magazine site.

BS you say?

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:10:51 GMT

Economist takes issue with the BSA software piracy claims.

Visual Studio Roadmap

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:07:33 GMT

Where we've been, where we are, where they're taking us.

Microsoft launches tabbed browsing tool

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:18:15 GMT

And it's way cool. A bit flickery but cool.

Software Patches: It's Like Making Sausage

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:16:45 GMT

I'll have the Jimmy Dean ones please.

June CTP of SQL Server 2005

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:15:16 GMT

And, it works with VS 2005 beta 2!

New Tech Center for SQL Server 2005

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:14:20 GMT

This complements the dev center which is at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/SQL/2005/default.aspx

TechEd Podcasting is here.

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:12:28 GMT

The new Data Sources Window in VS2005

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:27:31 GMT

Here's a nice little video on it.

C# IDE migrates to MS Build

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:22:51 GMT

Pretty impressive time savings too.

Photoblogging from TechEd

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:18:16 GMT

Some of these are pretty cool.

Some user driven changes coming to VS2005

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:17:22 GMT

Edit and continue for C# and more.

See Balmer's Keynote from TechED

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:15:13 GMT

In case you couln't be there in person.

MoBlogging via MSN Spaces covered in this post

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:15:27 GMT

.NET compatibility issues covered in this video on Channel 9

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:14:03 GMT

More of Working with Web Part Pages

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:12:53 GMT

Can't make it to Tech Ed next week?

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:11:32 GMT

We'll miss seeing you but you can catch the simulcasts via the link.

What's new in .Net Framework 2.0?

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 11:10:09 GMT

Good article from DNJ