GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1858 Released

4th November 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Improved performance of rendering process. Added support for FontSettings.FontSelection event. Fixed issue with calculating default column width with custom fonts. Added support for code name in XLS files. Fixed issue with chart interoperability. Fixed issue with missing […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1839 Released

8th October 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Added support for DataValidation.GetListValues method. Added support for ExcelWorksheet.CalculateFormula method. Fixed issue with duplicate drawing ID in XLSX reader. Fixed issue with wrong chart axis positioning. Fixed issue with WPF Dispatcher multithreading resource (atom) leak. Added support […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1822 Released

5th September 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Added support for ExcelGroupShape. Fixed issue with default font in ODS writer. Fixed issue with preserved embedded objects in XLSB files. Fixed issue with invalid defined name reference in XLSX writer. Fixed issue with incorrectly recognized shared […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1799 Released

13th August 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Fixed issue with WPS Office showing warning on XLSX roundtrip. Fixed issue with merged cells that have rotated text in PDF writer. Fixed issue with VBA encoding. Added support for range result in logical functions. Added support […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1767 Released

5th July 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Fixed issue with missing macros on Linux. Fixed issue with loading fonts on MAUI. Fixed issues with chart rendering in PDF writer: The wrong scatter chart marker shapes and thickness. The legend entry was missing. The wrong […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1737 Released

7th June 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Fixed issue with comparing string and double in calculation engine. Added support for cloning macros. Fixed issue with conditional formatting evaluation that has relative reference in a formula. Added support for PdfSaveOptions.Version. Fixed issue with checkbox position […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1697 Released

7th May 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Added support for LineChartSeries.SmoothLine and ScatterChartSeries.SmoothLine. Fixed issue with calculating FILTER function. Fixed issue with cropped file name on external reference in XLSX files. Fixed issue with handling conditional formatting rule differential format in XLSX reader. Fixed […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1655 Released

10th April 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Fixed the issue with handling TextBox elements that contain links in XLSX writer. Fixed the issue with calculating the AND function with error values. Fixed the issue with updating formulas when sorting. Fixed the issue with calculating […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 v1623 Released

8th March 2024

We have released a new version of GemBox.Spreadsheet with the following list of features, improvements, and fixes included: Fixed the issue with missing items in XSeriesCollection when saving a combo chart to a JPEG image. Fixed the issue of changing a newline character as a data label separator during the XLSX roundtrip process. Fixed the […]

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Export to images on non-Windows platforms

8th December 2023

We have recently released new bug fixes for GemBox.Document, GemBox.Spreadsheet, and GemBox.Presentation components with support for export to images on non-Windows platforms. Here are some of the details of this feature. When using the GemBox component on a Windows operating system, the WPF is used for text layout, rasterizing content to a bitmap, and bitmap […]

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Added support for nullable reference types

22nd September 2022

We have updated all our APIs by adding support for nullable reference types. This is a C# feature that helps you minimize NullReferenceException occurrence in runtime by performing a null-state analysis. The feature is disabled by default for existing projects, but it is enabled for new .NET 6 projects. To enable it manually, just add […]

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Removal of System.Drawing (GDI+) dependency on non-Windows platforms

18th August 2022

We have just released new bug fixes for GemBox components with lesser dependency on System.Drawing (GDI+). Over the last several months, we managed to isolate and restrict dependency on System.Drawing from our code for functionalities such as image handling, text measuring, printing, etc. Although GemBox components still reference System.Drawing (for backward compatibility), at runtime, we […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9 Released

24th March 2022

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.9. The following features were added: Reading and writing XLSB file format Pivot table evaluation Date axis support in Charts when saving to PDF, XPS, and image file formats Support for Excel […]

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Support for MS Office 2021

7th February 2022

We tested all our office components (GemBox.Spreadsheet, GemBox.Document, GemBox.Presentation), and we can confirm that they work correctly on files generated by MS Office 2021. We also added new features that were introduced in MS Office 2021. We mainly extended our calculation engine by adding support for spilled array behavior, and the following functions: XLOOKUP XMATCH […]

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Using GemBox components in .NET 5.0 applications

9th February 2021

With the recent release of .NET 5.0, we would like to inform you that GemBox components have been tested on the .NET 5.0 runtime. The behavior of GemBox components on the .NET 5.0 runtime should remain unchanged, however, .NET 5.0 introduced several breaking changes and we observed that the usage of ICU libraries on Windows […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.7 Release with support for SVG images

28th January 2021

We have just released a new setup, help, and example for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.7 which supports the creation, editing and saving of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images to XLSX, HTML, PDF, XPS, or image file formats. Images in SVG format are rendered in PDF files as vector graphics, resulting in a smaller file size and […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.7 Released

16th September 2020

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.7. The biggest addition in this version is a support for PDF/A, the ISO-standardized version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specialized for long-term archiving of electronic documents. For more details, go […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 Release with XLS improvements

22nd May 2020

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 with the following features added: Text Boxes – you can now edit or render the textual content of a shape. Enhanced feature support when reading and writing to XLS file format. Following features are now fully or partially supported: Pictures In-line […]

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Support for PDF on Linux and macOS

17th March 2020

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 3.1, GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5, GemBox.Presentation 2.3, and GemBox.Pdf 1.3 with the support for creating PDF files and paginating document content on Linux, macOS and other platforms that implement .NET Standard 2.0. Over the last several months we managed to remove dependency on WPF from […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 Release

20th December 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 with the following features added: Number format builder – You can use this class to create the most common number format strings. Progress reporting and cancellation – It is now possible to see the progress or cancel an operation when saving […]

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New GemBox .NET Core 3.0 Release

13th November 2019

Following Microsoft’s announcement of .NET Core 3.0, we have released new versions of GemBox .NET components compatible with .NET Core 3.0. With the release of .NET Core 3.0 support for Windows desktop applications (Windows only), GemBox.Document, GemBox.Spreadsheet, GemBox.Presentation and GemBox.Pdf .NET Core 3.0 components provide support for printing and writing to Adobe Portable Document Format […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 Release with support for right-to-left scripts

27th September 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 with support for bidirectional texts when saving to PDF, XPS, or image file formats. This includes support for languages that use a right-to-left script such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, or Yiddish. We also added support for customizing the direction of […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5 Released

4th June 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.5, with the following features added or updated: Combo chart support – Added support for combination charts. Chart formatting – You can now set chart series color, plot area background fill, title font and format other chart components. Shapes – Work with […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.3 Release

26th February 2019

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for the GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.3 with the following features added: Workbook protection – As well as protecting the content of a worksheet, it is now possible to protect the whole workbook structure, disabling to delete or rename a worksheet. Color depth and compression – It is […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.3 Released

27th March 2018

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.3. New in GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.3: Added support for inserting and removing cells. Added support for Tables. Added support for .NET Standard 2.0 or higher. With support for .NET Standard 2.0, GemBox.Spreadsheet now […]

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New HTML engine in GemBox.Spreadsheet

8th November 2017

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.1 with a new HTML engine. This new engine has the following advantages: Full CSS style resolution. External CSS support. Support for CSS style selectors. Better HTML parsing. We hope that you like the new feature. If you have any questions, complaints, or […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.1 Released

27th September 2016

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.1. New in GemBox.Spreadsheet 4.1: Added Calculation Engine. GemBox.Spreadsheet now supports cell formula calculation. You don’t need to reopen your files in Microsoft Excel to calculate cell values, just call ExcelCell.Calculate, ExcelWorksheet.Calculate […]

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PDF Digital Signature in GemBox.Document and GemBox.Spreadsheet

15th February 2016

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Document 2.5 and GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9 with support for digital signatures in PDFs. For more information, see the digital signature in GemBox.Document and digital signature in GemBox.Spreadsheet examples. Other notable GemBox.Document improvements: Major refactoring of lists (numbered / bulleted). The internal implementation now supports all […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9 Release with Conditional Formatting and Pivot Tables support

28th May 2015

We have just released a new setup, help and examples for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9 with following improvements: Added support for Conditional Formatting.Conditional Formatting is loaded from and saved to XLSX file format only.Conditional Formatting calculation is currently not supported. Added support for Pivot Tables.Pivot Tables are loaded from and saved to XLSX file format only.Pivot Table […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9 Released

23rd December 2014

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9. New in GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.9: Major overhaul of internal implementation and public API. As a result, memory consumption is lowered almost by half which means that you can load twice larger files […]

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Discontinuation of Site Wide License

23rd December 2014

From December 24, 2014 we are discontinuing Site Wide License. There are few reasons for that: Lots of our users are distributed teams. Site Wide License which is tied to physical location doesn’t work for them. There were many situations where company has several locations so we had to make custom offer which includes several […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 Release with Charts support

12th June 2014

We have just released a new setup, help, and examples for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 with a support for Charts (graphs). Following charts are supported: Clustered Column, Stacked Column, 100% Stacked Column, Clustered Bar, Stacked Bar, 100% Stacked Bar, Line, Stacked Line, 100% Stacked Line, Area, Stacked Area, 100% Stacked Area, Pie. Charts are supported in XLSX, […]

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New Customer Support Service

26th May 2014

For some time now we have been working on improving our support service and we have released a new GemBox Support Center. We have taken this initiative in order to improve our customer support, to simplify the process of feature requesting, to increase the available GemBox components resources and to enable our users to see […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 and GemBox.Document 2.3

17th February 2014

We have just released a new bug-fix, help and examples for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 and GemBox.Document 2.3. GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 improvements: Added support for XLSX encryption. Improved print options: added support for PrintTicket stream. Improved quality of rendering metafiles (EMF, WMF) in PDF, XPS, image formats and printing. Fixed issues with DateTime formats which depend on operating […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 Release with support for HTML and named styles

17th June 2013

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 with the following improvements: Added support for reading HTML files. Added support for reading / writing Fixed Columns Width Text files. Improved Header / Footer API. Now it is easier to set left / center / right sections with various fields like page […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 Release

18th March 2013

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 and as promised before, this release includes major improvements of our PDF/XPS rendering engine. We have added support for fit to page and page scaling features, fixed issues with rendering merged cells, improved performance of font fallback strategy and fixed other minor issues. […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7 Released

1st February 2013

We have released a new version of our spreadsheet component for easy and efficient spreadsheet automation in .NET without Microsoft Excel – GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7. New in GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.7: Write support for the: Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS), Image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMP). For more info, see GemBox.Spreadsheet […]

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New GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 Release

15th November 2012

We have just released a new setup and help for GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 with the following new features: Support for getting formatted cell value based on a number format applied to the cell. Improved column auto-fitting and HTML export which now use formatted cell value. Added ASP.NET utility method which enables you to stream Excel file […]

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Discontinuation of 4 Developer License

10th July 2012

From July 10, 2012 we are discontinuing 4 Developer License. There are few reasons for that: We hoped that more people will purchase multiple license packs if we give a big discount on additional licenses. This proved to be false, as majority of companies still purchases 1 Developer License although we had a big discount […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 Supports Medium Trust

18th October 2011

We have refactored GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5, so it no longer uses constructs that do not work in a medium trust environment. As a result, you can now use GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 in medium trust security level that is typical for applications hosted in cloud or shared-hosting servers. We have fully tested support for medium trust, but since […]

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GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5 Released

27th July 2011

We’ve just released a new version of our spreadsheet component: GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5. New in GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.5: Full support for Data Validation in XLSX Collections now implement generic versions of appropriate .NET interfaces Exporting to HTML supports exporting pictures Methods for sorting New methods for extracting to DataTable without needing to predefine DataTable (column type is […]

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Support for .NET Framework 4.0 and Excel 2010

12th May 2010

GemBox.Spreadsheet 3.3 now fully supports .NET Framework 4.0 and preservation of new Excel 2010 features. If using Free version, download the latest Free build. If using Professional version open SupportProfessional.htm in your Start Menu or GemBox install folder.

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