Tag: #.net
10 articles
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Adding Custom Cells to a WinForms or WPF Spreadsheet — Progress Bars, Sliders, and Dropdowns with CellBody
How to use ReoGrid's CellBody API to build cells with custom rendering and interaction in WinForms and WPF apps. Practical C# examples including a progress bar, an interactive slider, and a status badge cell.
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Reading, Writing, and Displaying Excel Files in VB.NET
A practical guide to working with .xlsx files in VB.NET — reading data, generating reports, and embedding a live spreadsheet viewer inside a WinForms or WPF desktop app. No Office required.
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Displaying Large Datasets Efficiently in WPF — When DataGrid Stops Scaling
WPF DataGrid is virtualized out of the box, but virtualization isn't the same as "fast." This article walks through where DataGrid stalls on 100k+ rows, how far tuning gets you, and the lazy-data-source pattern that handles a million rows without freezing the UI.
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Migrating from ReoGrid V3 to V4 — A Practical Guide
A short overview of what changes when upgrading an existing ReoGrid V3 application to V4 — what breaks at compile time, what changes at runtime, and the new APIs worth adopting.
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Display and Edit an Excel File in a WinForms or WPF App with C#
How to embed a working Excel viewer inside a .NET desktop app — load .xlsx, let users edit cells and formulas, save back to disk. Minimal WinForms and WPF examples in C#.
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Export a DataTable to Excel (.xlsx) in C# Without Office Interop
How to write a DataTable out as a real .xlsx file from C# — headers, formats, multiple sheets, and the ASP.NET Core download pattern. Side-by-side examples with ClosedXML, EPPlus, and ReoGrid.
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Announcing ReoGrid 4.4 — Performance Improvements for Large-Scale Data
ReoGrid 4.4 maintains full API compatibility while delivering ~11,700× faster bulk data loading with conditional formatting, ~10× faster sorting of 10,000 rows, and ~3× faster bulk loading via SetRangeData.
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Excel-Style Conditional Formatting in .NET Applications
How to add conditional formatting — color highlights, data bars, icon sets — to a .NET WinForms or WPF spreadsheet. Covers the rule model, performance pitfalls when applied to large ranges, and patterns that round-trip cleanly to Excel.
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Choosing the Right Editable Grid for WinForms and WPF Apps
A pragmatic guide to picking a data grid for desktop .NET apps. Compares DataGridView, WPF DataGrid, third-party grids, and full spreadsheet components — and explains which problems each one is actually built to solve.
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Reading and Writing Excel Files in C# Without Office Interop
A practical guide to handling .xlsx files from C# without installing Microsoft Office. Compares the main approaches — OpenXML SDK, ClosedXML, EPPlus, NPOI, and ReoGrid — and shows working code for the common cases.