Hi Gerhard,

>I do not have any experience with the product. But reading your message I remembered this:

>http://www.gemboxsoftware.com/spreadsheet/overview

>Maybe interesting for you?

Of course it is. Their site is quite clean and readable. As they clearly state, their code is 100% Net managed code as opposed to the product I mentioned which old-style COM-based. From their site:

"Some similar products (and actually Microsoft Excel object) are old COM components with .NET RCW (Runtime Callable Wrapper). That brings many performance and interoperability disadvantages as every method call you make goes through the wrapper until it reaches C++ code. On the other hand, our GemBox.Spreadsheet component is 100% managed, written entirely in C# and designed to support both Visual Basic .NET and C# in equal manner."

I wonder whether how many VFP users use NET-runtime-based components from VFP and the associated penalty in terms of deployment/speed and what is the feedback on such hybrid dev?

As you understand I mentioned this product in the "visual foxpro" UT forum. Not the NET one. I value the limited add-on resources we can still count upon from within VFP. That's my reason for posting on this product. I remember posting information on Molebox with the same intent a couple of years ago (still a satisfied user of molebox for VFP deployment to-day).

Daniel