5 reasons to try Resolver One

Disclaimer: I am a Resolver employee, have helped develop it and think it is extraordinarily cool.

• 1. It's an amazing combination of a spreadsheet application and an IronPython IDE.
• Resolver One shows a typical spreadsheet grid and a code box.
• Whatever you do with the grid is reflected in a generated code.
• In the code box you can write some code which manipulates the workbook object, all the changes are then displayed in the grid.
• Resolver One is now 1.0 !
  
• 2. You can create maintainable spreadsheets.
• Thanks to the two-ways synchronization a spreadsheet is actually a Python program.
• Thus, you can do everything that you can do with a program.
• Create modules, classes, methods.
  
• 3. It's probably the first time you can actually unit test your spreadsheet logic and furthermore do some refactoring on it!
• Once you split the logic into classes, you can easily test them using standard unit test tools.
  
• 4. Because now creating a spreadsheet is limited only by your imagination.
• Would you like to import/export a google spreadsheet?
• Maybe you'd prefer to load data from a database?
• You want to generate a chart?
• It's all limited only to IronPython capabilities.
  
• 5. It's easy to import your existing spreadsheet, script it with Python and export it back.

Are you convinced now?

Then go and grab a copy of Resolver One
Oh, and did I mention it's free for non-commercial use?

More resources:

resolversystems.com
resolverhacks.net