FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms 5.0

FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms is a commercial .NET component developed by FarPoint Technologies, Inc. It lets developers embed a full‑featured, Excel‑like spreadsheet and data grid into Windows Forms applications. Designed for business‑grade data entry, analysis, and reporting, Spread combines a familiar spreadsheet experience with a rich, extensible API and strong Visual Studio design‑time support.

Key capabilities:

• Excel‑style workbook model with sheets, rows, columns, and cells, plus a robust formula engine with a wide range of functions
• Rich cell types (text, number, currency, date/time, checkbox, button, combo box), conditional formatting, and data validation
• Fast data binding to ADO.NET and custom sources, with virtual mode for large datasets
• Interactive features such as sorting, filtering, grouping/outlining, frozen panes, span/merge cells, and undo/redo
• Extensive styling and theming, custom cell renderers and editors, and a comprehensive event model
• Import/export for common formats (such as Excel and CSV), clipboard interoperability, and printing with page setup and preview
• Strong Visual Studio integration, including designers, templates, and sample code
• Localization and right‑to‑left support for global applications

Typical uses include financial models, operational dashboards, complex data entry forms, and any grid requiring Excel‑like formulas and behaviors within a desktop app.

Notes:

• FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms targets Microsoft .NET Windows Forms and integrates with Visual Studio versions contemporary to its release.
• FarPoint Technologies later became part of GrapeCity; the product line continues under the Spread.NET brand for WinForms.

FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms is developed by FarPoint Technologies, Inc and is used by 3 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0. The names of program executable files are FarPoint.SpreadDesigner.exe, FarPoint.SpreadDesignerC.exe, FarPoint.SpreadDesignerJ.exe and taskmgr.exe.