After submitting an incident to Component 1 I received an email with the latest version of the C1Excel Component (C1Excel.2_2.1.20081.842) as well as the following email:
In the latest version of the control, a new property “CompatibilityMode” has been added.
Following are the settings for this property:
Valid settings are:
CompatibilityMode.Excel2003:
Up to 256 columns, 65,536 rows, and 4,050 cell styles.
CompatibilityMode.Excel2007:
Up to 18,278 columns, 1,048,576 rows, and 65,536 cell styles.
Workbooks that exceed the Excel2003 limits must be saved in OpenXml format instead of XLS.
CompatibilityMode.NoLimits:
No fixed limits (you may not be able to read these files with Microsoft Excel).
Here is a way you can this use this property:
C1XLBook1.CompatibilityMode = C1.C1Excel.CompatibilityMode.Excel2007
Please find attached the latest build along with this mail in which the said property has been added.