Introducing Excel4Net

Hello everyone and welcome to Excel4Net blog!

This blog was created to support our new product – Excel4Net 2.0 – a rapid application development kit for creating Excel applications using .NET framework.

In short: if you writing XLL’s in C++, managed (.NET) and unmanaged COM add-ins or using any other technology to extend your Excel spreadsheets – we hope you’ll find something interesting here.

Focus: Excel4Net is designed to suite Excel development needs of “market” professionals who work for investment banks, hedge funds: quantitative analysts, desk and trading floor developers. At the same time it might be interested to those (students?) thinking of getting into this lucrative industry.

Important: if you have existing .NET libraries – you can put them to use with Excel in 5 minutes (see how to do it here: www.excel4net.com/Documentation.aspx)

Even more important: fully functional beta version is available for download here: www.excel4net.com/Download.aspx (your feedback is welcome)

Key features:

*Easy to use
*Automatically marshals input and output data.
*Works with VBA and with in-cell functions
*Uses a simple deployment model
*Makes it easy to test and debug your spreadsheet and .NET code
*Have a built-in monitoring and performance profiling capabilities
*Supports users remotely
*Generates documentation for your code
*Runs on Excel 2002, 2003 and 2007, .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5