Formula One ActiveX provides an API-driven, Excel-compatible spreadsheet component for building Windows applications in visual development environments such as Visual Basic and Visual C++.

Celebrating 10 years of delivering powerful spreadsheet, reporting, and grid functionality to the developer marketplace, Formula One ActiveX has been licensed by more than 40,000 developers and is used in applications all over the world.

Formula One ActiveX gives your users the most popular features of a stand-alone spreadsheet application with none of the overhead and programming hassles of using Excel and VBA. In addition to its fast calculation engine, Excel formula syntax, and Excel file compatibility, Formula One provides the utmost in flexibility with a rich and extensive API that gives developers complete control of the spreadsheet environment.

• Database connectivity. Supplied ODBC methods enable Formula One ActiveX to connect to a wide variety of databases.
• Design tools. Includes a workbook designer for users to enter and manipulate data and for developers to build report templates for use in Windows applications.
• Exceptional performance. Provides a powerful spreadsheet engine for performing fast calculations
• Terrific Excel compatibility with no reliance on Excel. Reads and writes Excel 95/97/2000/XP file formats without relying or calling on the Excel application itself. Provides many of the same formula, function, calculation, and data formatting options as Excel, including support for user-written, add-in functions
• Flexible. API driven. As opposed to the standalone spreadsheet application architecture of Excel, Formula One ActiveX is designed to be a programmer's tool with a small footprint and complete API model
• Charting: Includes the First Impression 2D and 3D ActiveX charting component for displaying data graphically alone on forms or in conjunction with the spreadsheets and grids of Formula One ActiveX