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 We’re excited to announce that Spread for Windows Forms has just been voted the ‘Best Grid’ by the CodeProject readers, one of the world’s largest online developer communities! Thank you to everyone who voted for us.
Read the Press Release
Yes, we know it’s technically a spreadsheet but that’s what makes this award all the more special. Some of you are using Spread for its enhanced grid features, but many more are taking advantage of its full spreadsheet functionality.
What about you? How are you using Spread? Are you using it primarily for its spreadsheet functionality, grid functionality, or a combination of both?
Feel free to let me know below.
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GrapeCity announces full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 in all .NET spreadsheet, reporting, and business intelligence products that are part of its award-winning PowerTools line of products.
FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms 5 is the world’s best-selling, award-winning Microsoft Excel-compatible .NET spreadsheet component. Spread now supports the Visual Studio 2010 .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile.
FarPoint Spread for ASP.NET is the world’s best-selling, award-winning Microsoft Excel-compatible ASP.NET spreadsheet component. The current version, 4, already supports Visual Studio 2010, and the upcoming version, 5, provides built-in support for the Visual Studio 2010 Azure Development Fabric.
ActiveReports 6 is an award-winning .NET reporting tool and comes with full design-time support in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE including support for the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile. ActiveReports 6 now includes support for Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services in full trust mode, granting access to the benefits of using this platform.
Data Dynamics Reports is a new business reporting tool for .NET that supports and enhances the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting format and allows developers to embed dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and offer Microsoft Excel transformations. It now supports Visual Studio 2010 and the new .NET Framework 4 Client Profile.
Data Dynamics Analysis is the first free-form .NET data visualization component for Microsoft Visual Studio. The latest release fully supports Visual Studio 2010.
Read the full release here
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In case you haven’t heard, and I can’t image how you couldn’t, Visual Studio 2010 will officially be launched in Las Vegas next Monday! Yes, we will be there front and center as we’re a Silver Sponsor for this global launch event.
Are you going?
Then visit us at Booth# 319 to enter to win free products and $500 cash!
We invite you to stop by and say hello! But bring your best questions as we’ve assembled our team leads to staff the booth, including:
· Rick, Founder of FarPoint Technologies and now GM, GrapeCity PowerTools
· Issam, Founder of Data Dynamics and Chief Product Strategist, GrapeCity
· Robby, Group Product Manager of Spread
· Scott, Group Product Manager of ActiveReports
· Keith, Director of Development
· Sean, Product Manager, Spread for Windows Forms
· Pete, Director Of Sales
· and myself
While you’re there, be sure to register for the $500 cash giveaway we’re doing (I don’t think they’ll allow us to give away an IPad J). INSIDER SECRET: you can increase your odds of winning simply by watching a demo.
We hope to see you there!
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Join us online, we’re a premiere Gold Sponsor for the CodeProject Tech Summit, as we help launch Visual Studio 2010 for this virtual event!
Explore, network, and learn from the experts, including our own, on the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Visual Studio. From the convenience of your desk, enjoy the following:
•Instructional sessions on Visual Studio 2010 from the industry experts
•Interactive chat rooms
•A virtual tote bag with must-have programming resources
•Virtual exhibit hall with the newest and latest products and services for all your programming needs
•And prize giveaways!!!
The session topics will range from all the new, great features in Visual Studio 2010 to Silverlight, WPF, WF, WCF, Application Lifecycle Management, .NET 4.0, ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and much more!
And be sure to attend our session on Monday at 6:00 pm Eastern entitled:
“Decision Support Systems - Transforming Your Data Into Information
Learn how you can effectively integrate Decision Support components into your .Net applications. In today’s age of data-overload, decision makers are desperate for meaningful information to help them identify opportunities, analyze problems, spot trends and get up to the minute views on the state of their organization. Topics discussed: Aggregation, Dashboards, Reporting, and Analysis.“
This session is presented by our own Robby Powell, Group Product Manager, and Keith May, Director of Development.
Oh, and did I mention it’s all free!
Get more information here:
http://www.codeproject.com/feature/techsummit/
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I’m excited to announce that GrapeCity has won several awards from ComponentSource, the world's largest marketplace for reusable software components and development tools!
So what did we win?
2009 Bestselling Products Awards
ActiveReports for .NET — Ranked #1 in Japan, #7 Worldwide
FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms — Ranked #2 in Japan, Top 25 Worldwide
FarPoint Spread for ASP.NET — Ranked #8 in Japan, Top 50 Worldwide
2009 Bestselling Publisher Awards
GrapeCity (Japan) — Ranked #1 Publisher
GrapeCity (Worldwide) — Ranked #3 Publisher
So according to these numbers, that officially makes ActiveReports the World’s #1 best-selling .NET/COM Reporting component and FarPoint Spread the World’s #1 best-selling .NET/COM Spreadsheet components.
Yes, we’re pretty excited (if you haven’t checked out the latest releases in a while, now may be the time)! But watch for even better things coming soon :)
Read the full release here:
http://www.fpoint.com/press/pdf/GC2010ComponentSourceAwards.pdf
Thanks to ComponentSource for these awards!
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As usual, the Microsoft PDC show in LA was filled with all kinds of great announcements, including ‘Dallas’ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/
If you didn't get to make it to the show, we posted some pictures that you can view now:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45053493@N08/sets/72157622886105732/
We also recorded a couple videos:
‘.NET Rocks’ Interview
Robby Powell from GrapeCity talks with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks! on what's new on ActiveReports and Spread .NET developer tools and components.
“Why we chose ActiveReports”
Sanjeev Jagtap of GrapeCity interviews Al Perez of Total Computer Group on why they chose ActiveReports as their .NET reporting platform for their systems that are now on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.
Both videos can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/GrapeCityInc
Donald
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If you didn't have time to attend our session entitled "Deliver Complete .NET Business Intelligence Solutions by combining Spreadsheets, Reporting and Data Visualization in Microsoft Visual Studio" that followed the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tech Briefing, now is your chance! We've zipped up both the slide desk and the demo video that you can download now:
http://www.FarPointSpread.com/Videos/BISolutions/
Unzip the file to your harddrive then either:
1) Run GrapeCityVS2010.pps to view the slides and video or
2) Run GrapeCityVS2010.wmv to view the video only
As always, please let us know if you have any questions. Enjoy the show!
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Join us, along with Microsoft, for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Virtual Tech Briefing, a one-day virtual event showing you what you need to know about this new release – just out in beta.
Following the Microsoft presentation, we will be presenting our session entitled, “Deliver Complete .NET Business Intelligence Solutions by combining Spreadsheets, Reporting and Data Visualization in Microsoft Visual Studio”.
Registration is free! Register now at CodeProject.com - http://www.codeproject.com/webcasts/vs2010Beta/
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INETA is sponsoring the INETA Component Code Challenge, with the winner receiving a scholarship to PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. All you need to do is build the best application using Spread and another component.
The Details:
Build a .NET Application (WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, Compact Framework, etc.) using at least 2 components from at least 2 different approved vendors (yes, FarPoint is an approved vendor) then make a 3-5 minute Camtasia video showing your entry and describing what components you used and why your application is cool. Our judges will review the submissions and the best two will win a scholarship to PDC 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, including air fare, hotel, and conference pass. The submission deadline is 08/25/2009 at Midnight Eastern and the winners will be announced on 09/14/2009. Entries will be judged on four criteria:
• Effective use of a component to solve a problem/display data
• innovative use of components
• Impact using components (i.e. reduction in lines of code written, increased productivity, etc.)
• Most creative use of a component.
See the contest page (http://ineta.org/codechallenge) on the INETA web site for more details and full rules.
That’s it. So what are you waiting for? Show them how you are using Spread today and possibly win a free trip to PDC. Good luck!
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We just found out that Spread for ASP.NET is a finalist in the ‘Best Grid’ category, as voted by the asp.netPRO readers. Ya, we know, it’s a spreadsheet but that category wasn’t available. Just goes to show you the power of a spreadsheet. Thanks to everyone who voted for us!
Check out the latest features of Spread for ASP.NET here:
http://www.fpoint.com/netproducts/spreadweb/spread.aspx
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It’s once again that time of year to vote for your favorite Grid and Component Suite! We would love to have you support us. Please visit the asp.netPRO web site and vote now:
http://www.aspnetpro.com/awards/default.asp
We are entered in the following categories:
#7: “Component Set” – Spread for .NET Bundle nominated
#12 “Grid” – Spread for ASP.NET nomiated
Please vote now as it ends on April 25. Thanks from all of us at FarPoint!
- Donald
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Well, it’s official...we’re unlocking the vault. Now you can own the source to the most widely used COM development spreadsheet in the world! When Spread 8 releases here shortly, you will also have the option to purchase the highly guarded Source Code (written in C and C++). You will even get the source to the Spread Designer.
Don’t care about looking at the source? You can still get it and archive the Spread Source code along with your application to lock in the vault.
Watch for more information coming soon or email our Corporate Sales team now at CorporateSales@FarPointSpread.com to get your questions answered.
- Donald
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