SpreadsheetGear 2017 can be deployed royalty free with most client and server applications. Please see the license agreement for limitations.

One developer license is required for each and every developer working on any application which directly or indirectly references any SpreadsheetGear assembly.

No, Excel is not required to use SpreadsheetGear 2017. Using Excel in a server environment is not supported, which makes SpreadsheetGear 2017 a good solution for your server applications as well as your client applications.

No, SpreadsheetGear 2017 is 100 percent safe managed code written exclusively for the .NET Framework. All that is required is the .NET Framework and the appropriate SpreadsheetGear assemblies.

SpreadsheetGear 2017 supports Excel 2007-2019 and Excel for Office 365 Open XML (.xlsx) and macro-enabled Open XML (.xlsm) workbooks which are compatible with Excel 2019. SpreadsheetGear 2017 also supports the older Excel 97-2003 (.xls) file format.

SpreadsheetGear 2017 comes with the most comprehensive Excel compatible charting support found in any .NET component, including charting APIs, chart rendering and chart editing.

See the Supported Excel Compatible Functions on the product page.

Any use of or reliance on this information is at your own risk and is without recourse to SpreadsheetGear LLC. This information is subject to change without notice.

SpreadsheetGear 2010 for .NET Framework, SpreadsheetGear 2012 for .NET Framework and SpreadsheetGear 2017 for .NET Framework as well as SpreadsheetGear for .NET Standard are self-classified with an ECCN of 5D992.c under EAR 742.15(b)(1), a license designation of NLR (“No License Required”), an Authorization Type of MMKT ("Mass Market") and an Export Registration Number (ERN) of R108616. These products encrypt Microsoft Excel documents using the .NET Framework Cryptography APIs as described in “2.3.4 ECMA-376 Document Encryption” of the document known as “[MS-OFFCRYPTO]: Office Document Cryptography Structure” which can be found here.

SpreadsheetGear 2012 for Silverlight and all other SpreadsheetGear software have an ECCN of EAR99.

Please see "10. Export Rules" in the SpreadsheetGear End User License Agreement for more information.

SpreadsheetGear 2017 comes with the SpreadsheetGear Explorer sample solutions for C# and Visual Basic. The SpreadsheetGear Explorer is a helpful Windows Forms Application sample soluton for Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017. See SpreadsheetGear Explorer Sample Solutions for more information.

Follow these getting started instructions and then refer to the live Excel Automation Samples for ASP.NET.

See Add WorkbookView and FormulaBar to Visual Studio Toolbox in the SpreadsheetGear Help.

Yes. SpreadsheetGear 2017 includes strong named assemblies which enables the installation and use of multiple versions on one machine.

Visual Studio only looks for new .NET components once. Be sure to close and restart Visual Studio after installing SpreadsheetGear 2017.

If you recently installed a new version of SpreadsheetGear, you may need to remove any references to SpreadsheetGear assemblies from your project using the Solution Explorer window in Visual Studio. First, remove any old references, then, add any new ones back by using the .NET tab of the Add Reference dialog.

It is also important to note that Visual Studio 2010 replaced the MS Help 2 system with the new Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0 system. This new help system does not have Dynamic Help, though it does still support IntelliSense, and pressing F1 on a term such as "IWorkbookSet".

See SpreadsheetGear 2017 -> Getting Started -> Using Help in the SpreadsheetGear Help for more information on using the SpreadsheetGear 2017 help with Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012 / 2013 / 2015 / 2017.

Note: It may be necessary to delete any occurences of any SpreadsheetGear assemblies from your project directory before adding any new assemblies.

If you recently installed a new version of SpreadsheetGear, you may need to remove any references to SpreadsheetGear assemblies from your project using the Solution Explorer window in Visual Studio. First, remove any old references, then, add any new ones back by using the .NET tab of the Add Reference dialog.

It is also important to note that Visual Studio 2010 replaced the MS Help 2 system with the new Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0 system. This new help system does not have Dynamic Help, though it does still support IntelliSense, and pressing F1 on a term such as "IWorkbookSet".

See SpreadsheetGear 2017 -> Getting Started -> Using Help in the SpreadsheetGear Help for more information on using the SpreadsheetGear 2017 help with Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 / 2012 / 2013 / 2015 / 2017.

Note: It may be necessary to delete any occurences of any SpreadsheetGear assemblies from your project directory before adding any new assemblies.