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‘.NET Guru’s Can Cook!’ Cookbook coming soon with almost 70 Recipes from your favorite Microsoft. NET Community Influencers....
GrapeCity’s Headquarters, located in Sendai, Japan, was affected by the earthquake disaster earlier this month. Learn how you can donate to the Japan Relief Effort....
The world’s best-selling Excel compatible ASP.NET spreadsheet component adds charts for data visualization, support for Windows Azure development and over 30 new features...
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! Read the Press Release...
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....
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?...
GrapeCity Inc. has now released Spread for Windows Forms version 5! Special thanks go to Naomi and her testing teams for their hard work creating and verifying the numerous test cases, and to Allan and his development teams for implementing the n...
GrapeCity and FarPoint today announced the acquisition of FarPoint by GrapeCity. GrapeCity, along with it's recent acquisition of Data Dynamics, is the world’s largest component developer and seller by company size and revenues. All FarPoint Product Manag...
We’re honored that Spread for Windows Forms is the best selling component in Japan, according to Component Source, the world's largest marketplace and community for reusable software components.  In addition to leading the Japanese marketplace, ...
FarPoint Technologies, and the InputPro for Silverlight team are proud to announce the Preview of our first Silverlight product, a set of Silverlight input controls - InputPro for Silverlight.  Based on the Quality Bands introduced with t...
We are pleased to announce that our latest maintenance release of Spread for ASP.NET 4 includes support for Microsoft's ASP.NET Dynamic Data. Microsoft ASP.NET Dynamic Data is a new technology for creating data-driven websites. It provides full C...
In case you didn’t get our latest newsletter (you can sign up for it here - http://www.fpoint.com/subscriptions/subscribe.aspx), we have posted our 2009 Product Roadmap. You can view this in our newsletter here - http://www.clubfarpoint.com/FarPointSuppor...
We have created a new area on the FarPoint website for labs. And first into the labs is Fred. Fred is a collaborative spreadsheet application featuring our Spread for ASP.NET product. Come take a lo...
We have officially released Spread 8 COM along with optional source code. Get the details and download a trial here - http://www.fpoint.com/products/spread/spread.aspx...
FarPoint is now offering a set of user interface controls for ASP.NET development -- a set of eight input controls, as well as two help controls and five validation controls that can be assigned to those input controls. The product is FarPoint Input for A...
You can now take classes on FarPoint Spread products! Several customers have asked and now we are offering them. In April of 2008, TakeNote was selected as an official training partner for FarPoint Technologies. Initially TakeNote is offering hands-on, in...
In case you missed the DevConnections show in Orlando, FarPoint held a Singing Talent Challenge where people showcased their singing abilities for the chance to win $500.  And boy did they turn out! Visit the following link to ...
FarPoint Releases Spread for Windows Forms 4 Adds over 30 new features! MORRISVILLE, NC — January 22, 2008 – FarPoint Technologies has announced the release of FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms version 4, the award winning spreadsheet component....
FarPoint offers online demos and customized presentations via Web using Live Meeting. MORRISVILLE, NC — September 6, 2007 – FarPoint Technologies has announced that they offer online demos for customized presentations using Live Meeting for groups req...
FarPoint’s pipeline component extends Excel support with new features. MORRISVILLE, NC — August 29, 2007 – FarPoint Technologies has announced that its pipeline component, FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server 2006, has added features that extend it...
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-wi...
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 develo...
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 k...
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 t...
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.fpoint.com/netproducts/spreadweb/tour/default.aspx What's New: http:/...
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...
You'll have responsibility for every facet of our marketing effort. An understanding of old and new media would be helpful. Blogging experience is a plus. Email inquiries and resumes to HR@FarPointSpread.com....
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. T...
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 versio...
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 prog...
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 Compo...
The beta for the next major version is ready for testing! Please send an email to beta@fpoint.com if you would like to join the beta program now....
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 create a schema for an Excel XLS file without doing any coding. Sign up now....
Included in this release 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@fpoint.com....
We are very excited about the new features that have been added to FarPoint Spread for Web Forms (ASP.NET), 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....
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!...
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!...
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....