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It is that magical time of the year again when pumpkins glow eerily, shadows come alive, and creativity takes center stage. This Halloween we invite all developers to show their ghostly good coding skills and spooky software creations.Have y...

This post has been updated in Apr 2013 to reflect the new changes I am really happy to say we have finally released our first version of FlexCel 5 for VCL/Firemonkey. It has been a huge lot of hard work, and even when there is still a lot of work to...

This isn't a particularly easy to write post. There are so many things to say, many good news, some bad ones, that it gets hard to decide where to start. So let's try to start from what you should already know from the title: FlexCel 5 for VCL an...

If there is one thing I do a lot is playing "find the differences" with xls and xlsx files. I do it when reverse engineering a feature: If I want to find some undocumented byte that changes some feature, I save the file in Excel with and without the...

From the silly inconsistencies dept: Excel 2010: Ribbon with unprotected workbook and unprotected sheet: Excel 2010: Ribbon with protected workbook and protected sheet: ...

For some time now I have been wanting to evaluate how FlexCel .NET behaves in other platforms. Not just plain Mono running in a Linux server (that's boring, we have always supported that), but some more fun possibilities. That's why I decided ...

If you have been looking at the "What's new" sections in the last FlexCel releases, you might have noticed a mysterious "Office 2010 Protected mode support". Here I would like to expand on what that means, but before going any further, let's focus in...

I normally don't do Christmas greetings. Mind you, this is not because I am some kind of Scrooge waiting for a Christmas Ghost to visit me, or that I don't have Christmas Spirit, or anything like that. The answer is much simpler: Real men send New Ye...

Excel and its true colors Excel 2007 was the most innovative version of Excel since Excel 97. It has new features that are actually useful, and this is no little to say of an application as mature and complete as Excel. What else could you add to so...

Finally, after so many months of intense development, FlexCel 5.0 for .NET is out. This means, among other things, that I get some time for blogging and updating you guys on how things are going. I plan to make a small series of posts with fun and w...

In my last post I mentioned that I needed some data that I couldn't get directly from Google Analytics, so I had to find my way. In this post I am going a little deeper on how I did it. Note that this is going to be kind of technical, and I assume th...