Questions about Excel worksheet embedding in WinForms application

Question

I embed Excel worksheet in a WinForms C# application in two ways - using WebBrowser control and using dsoFramer control. In both cases i'm facing the following two problems: 1. How do i make my embedded spreadsheet read-only? The only way i discovered is by protecting the underlying Excel file, but it causes annoying message boxes to pop up all the time. 2. If i launch MS Excel in a separate process prior to launching my application, the standalone Excel freezes after my embedded worksheet is shown. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

SpreadsheetGear for .NET comes with an Excel compatible Windows Forms spreadsheet control which you can simply drag to your form. It includes a Workbook Designer which allows you to edit workbooks right in Visual Studio or load Excel workbooks from disk, and also includes a comprehensive API which is similar to Excel (except that it is .NET friendly).

You can learn more and try the free evaluation for yourself if this might work for you.

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