Unless you are living under a rock there is no way you have not been indoctrinated daily about all things related to mobile development. Whether it is a blog post, a question on Stack Overflow or tweet on Twitter - the mobile conversation is strong and growing. Today, mobile development is driving a lot of the current UI trends in response to end users continuously expecting apps to be faster, more responsive and more seamlessly-designed.

Some days it is hard to keep up with these demands and with changing technology. As part of this trend, like us, you may find yourself immersed in learning and exploring more modern browsers and languages. Our development team here at GrapeCity is here to work alongside you by providing you tools to speed up your development time, so that you can extend your reach across multiple devices whether you are looking for HTML5 or native solutions.

Is mobile an area of focus for you? A big initiative for us this year is market research and understanding what your pain points are and what tools you feel would help you better solve these. We’re interested in learning more about you. You’ll see a survey further down, but please feel free to reach out to us at press@componentone.com with ideas you have for new tools or your technology plans over the next year.

The History of FlexGrid sample is a brief walk-through of each major version of the FlexGrid. Not only can you read about FlexGrid written in VBX and running on Windows 95, but you can play around with a recreation of it. Check out the blog post and the sample.

We are pleased to introduce a new MVC edition which has a set of modern UI controls built upon the latest cutting edge technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and ECMA5 without making compromises to support legacy browsers. Read more.

This release includes a new Cloud Business Apps Edition featuring the legendary ComponentOne FlexGrid; this versatile datagrid is now available as a LightSwitch extension for both desktop and Cloud Business Apps. Check out the sample to learn more.

You can also now visit sphelp.grapecity.com to find Spread resources in one place including blog posts, videos, forum posts, documentation, samples, and more!

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