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The WinForms Spreadsheet is an Excel-inspired control that allows you to create, edit, view, and format Microsoft Excel files without having Excel installed. It provides an integrated ribbon to cover any possible business scenario. In addition, it has a built-in calculation engine with more than 400+ of the most widely used formulas. It was built with .NET Excel Library (Essential XlsIO), which features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office Automation libraries.
Read and write all popular Excel file formats, including XLS and XLSX. A file can be opened in one format and saved in another format.
Load and manipulate Excel-like workbooks with a large amount of data and any number of worksheets in less time with minimal memory consumption.
Enjoy a smooth scrolling experience even with many cells in the view.
Comes with a fast and efficient calculation engine with more than 400 Excel-compatible functions.
Add, edit, and remove formulas in a cell. Additionally in WinForms Spreadsheet, you can select the range reference directly using a mouse or keyboard when entering formulas, just like in Excel.
Validate the edited values based on the data validation rules defined for a cell or range of cells. Data validation can be applied with operators, alert messages, custom formulas, and drop-down lists.
Undo and redo changes can be made in an Excel workbook. There is no limit to the number of undo and redo operations in a spreadsheet.
Users can enable an Excel-like paste option to paste a value or formula with or without formatting.
Easily fill or copy a series or pattern of values and formats in the neighboring cells in any direction.
The WinForms Spreadsheet control provides built-in support for hyperlinks and bookmarks. Additionally, users can navigate through bookmarks to a specific cell or range of cells in a workbook, like in Excel.
A wide range of formulas is available with cross-sheet references, named ranges, table formulas, and array formula support.
The built-in calculation engine is preloaded with more than 400+ Excel-compatible functions covering a broad range of business scenarios.
Cell values are recalculated when a preceding cell is edited.
Named ranges can be used in formulas as substitutes for cell references. The built-in name manager allows you to add, edit, and delete names.
Import and modify various font formatting options like font size, font family, font styles, font color, and fill color.
Import and modify various alignments, merged cells, and wrap settings from Excel.
Import and modify number formats such as currency, percentage, short date, long date, time, fraction, scientific, and custom number formats similar to Excel.
Import table formats and predefined cell styles from Excel. You can also format a range as a table and define cell styles at runtime.
Insert, delete, hide, and unhide one or more rows and columns in worksheets. Adjust the row height and column width, import the adjusted row height and column width from Excel, and fit rows and columns based on the content. Additionally, you can freeze one or more rows and columns in worksheets.
Conditional formatting helps you visually explore and analyze data, detect critical issues, and identify patterns and trends.
Format the appearance of cells based on their value or the values of other cells.
Use gradient or solid data bars to spot the largest to the smallest numbers easily.
Use color scales to understand data distribution and variations.
Icon sets distinguish data in three to five categories based on the threshold value.
Import outlines and group or ungroup rows and columns at runtime.
Import charts from Excel that can be defined at runtime. This helps visually enhance the represented data.
Import sparklines from Excel to visually represent data in a row.
Import images from Excel and add images at runtime to the spreadsheet. You can resize and reposition the images.
Import a rich text box from Excel and add it at runtime for editing and formatting content. You can reposition the rich text box.
The Spreadsheet control is touch-optimized for all user interactions.
Select a range of cells, rows, columns, and tables. The Spreadsheet control also supports all keyboard interactions with cell selection.
Zoom in and out of the worksheet content. Additionally, the zoom level can be imported and exported to and from Excel.
There’s built-in support for cell and tab context menus. You can also add your own custom context menu items.
Import and export data from various sources with the help of XlsIO as an intermediary.
Localize all static text in the ribbon and built-in dialogs to any supported language.
Easily get started with the WinForms Spreadsheet using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our WinForms Spreadsheet Example that shows you how to render and configure the Spreadsheet in WinForms.
using Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Spreadsheet;
namespace Syncfusion
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
Spreadsheet spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
SpreadsheetRibbon spreadsheetRibbon = new SpreadsheetRibbon() { Spreadsheet = spreadsheet };
spreadsheet.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
spreadsheet.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Top;
this.Controls.Add(spreadsheet);
this.Controls.Add(spreadsheetRibbon);
}
}
}The Syncfusion WinForms Spreadsheet control provides the following features:
You can find our WinForms Spreadsheet demo on GitHub location.
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
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