TreeCells 1.0.2 has been released.

This maintenance release fixes the following issues:

-Crash of the application when cutting numeric cells

- Problem with special characters made with “Alt Gr” + xxx

you can donwload it here : http://www.aflava.com/wp/download-manager.php?id=11

I am pleased to announce the availability of TreeCells 1.01.

In addition of fixing some minor bugs, this version brings localization.

English and French versions are now available in the same installation file.

You can donwload it here TreeCells 1.01

I am pleased to announce the release of TreeCells 1.0, our general purpose spreadsheet application.

You can download it here http://www.aflava.com//index.php/treecells-download.html 

If you are a journalist or blogger (Your blog just needs to have at least 200 subscribers) willing to write about us: Contact Us your name and the url of your blog. If you are qualified to receive a free copy, we will send you a license allowing you evaluate our product properly.

I am pleased to announce you the availability of TreeCells RC1.

It can be Downloaded here

I am pleased to announce the availability of the beta2 version of TreeCells.

The beta fixes a certain number of bugs and brings as well some interesting new features:

A better data input management

• TreeCells starts now with a blank document containing already one column and one row.
• A new blank row is added automatically when user press enter on the last row

Enhancement of the numeric cell

it is now easier to enter a figure starting by a decimal separator.

Numeric formatting options

TreeCells is now offering several predefined numeric formats including currency.

Super tooltips on columns: see quickly the type of a column and its properties.

Add keyboard shortcuts

This new version is available for testing here TreeCells - v1.0 beta 2 - setup

Because it was really difficult to pronounce it, I decided to change the name of my coming application : TreePtych. Its new name is TreeCells. I think it is easier to pronounce and remember.

I am pleased to announce the availability of the beta version of our next product: TreePtych.

TreePtych is a hierachical spreadsheet application. It can be used to perform a wide variety of tasks (budget management, project planning, TODO lists, …)

Unlike traditional spreadsheet application, TreePtych has been built to manage natively hierarchical information with an unlimited number of levels.

The beta version can be downloaded here : TreePtych version 1.0 beta 1 Setup 

Please report bugs, comments, ideas and feeback.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so here is the traditional screenshot of the application in action:

The .Net platform is offering 2 technologies for desktop applications.

The first one, Windows Forms exists since the first version of the .Net Framework. It has been upgraded with the version 2 of the framework. It is still an excellent choice for desktop applications (a lot of controls are available and it is possible to create a good user experience with them).

With the third version of the framework, appeared WPF (Windows Presentation Framework). WPF is a huge change. It brings a lot of new interesting concepts: vector rendering of the UI, the ability to mix all kind of media in an application, …

However it makes heavy applications and some things are difficult to achieve (just try to have a DataGrid with acceptable performances in WPF for instance).

During last PDC, Microsoft announced: “The ability to run Silverlight in and out of the browser”.

Silverlight is a subset of the framework, targeting Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Silverlight is more lightweight than WPF and its big advantage is the size of the framework for deployment.

Even if there is no forecasted date for a release, I am starting to be impatient to test it in order to see how it can compete with Windows Forms and WPF for Desktop applications.

In order to make SharpWidgetsUI affordable to all developers and companies, I decided to decrease its price. You can now purchase a single developer license for only 99 €.

Prices for packs of licenses have been updated as well.

SharpWidgetsUI is now allowing you to provide rich, lightweight and high performances Windows Forms applications at low cost.

You can purchase it here: http://www.aflava.com/purchase.php

The treegrid has now a partial editing support (it remains to implement the full parsing and formatting system).

In parallel I started to add another type of column (in addition of the regular string one): The ComboBox column. It allows to select a value within a list and to assign it to a cell.

ComboBox supports horizontal and vertical resizing.

A small screenshot to illustrate: