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Quick and dirty reporting with the Google Chart API

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A quick example of how to quickly create a graphical report using the Google chart API, and driven off of your database.

ASP.NET Controls for amCharts 1.5 Released

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:53:58 GMT

New version of ASP.NET controls for one of the most popular flash charting packages has been released. Custom context menu items, guides, gradient colors are just a few of the features added.

Workaround: Infragistics column chart with columns having same height

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:14:03 GMT

The Infragistics NetAdvantage has pretty much bugs almost on every release. Considering the NetAdvantage 7.x releases, it is not possible to render column charts with all columns having same heights. Here is a workaround for this issue

How to: Enable zooming on Infragistics composite charts

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:09:06 GMT

To do this on a regular UltraChart chart layout is not a difficult thing but when we consider the composite charts it seems to be not supported. Well, this is not true. Actually we use the same properties to do it excepting that for the composite chart those properties are not shown by IntelliSense.

How to: Create new chart types with Infragistics Ultrachart

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:59:42 GMT

The Infragistics NetAdvantage 7.3 release came out with a new event for the Ultrachart user control. The FillSceneGraph event was provided to help those who want to change the chart's elements right before firing the Paint event. Using this new event we can create new chart types that are not supported by Infragistics, by default.

Add Flash Charts to Your ASP.NET Web Site. Part 3: Auto-reloading Data

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:41:20 GMT

In the first two parts of the series we've learned how to add a simple pie chart to your pages and how to bind the chart to real data. This time we will learn the way of making the chart reload it's data in specified intervals and see more options for visual customization.

Add Flash Charts to Your ASP.NET Web Site. Part 2: Data binding

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:01:02 GMT

This part of the series looks at how to bind our pie chart to a real data source and covers a couple of visual enhancement options.

Add Interactive Charts to Your ASP.NET Application. Part1: Basics

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:28:51 GMT

This is the first part in the series of tutorials showing how to add dynamic, interactive, data-driven charts to your ASP.NET web applications. In this first installment I will show you how to add ASP.NET Controls for amCharts into your Visual Studio toolbox and add a simplest form of pie chart to your page.

ASP.NET Controls for amCharts Released

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:50:16 GMT

AmCharts are very customizable and flexible Adobe Flash charts. However generating data and modifying settings on the fly requires a substantial amount of data transformations and XML generation. This is where "ASP.NET Controls for amCharts" step in. This set of ASP.NET controls allows .NET developers to work with amCharts as they would normally do with any native data-bound ASP.NET controls.

Google Charts in .Net

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:46:23 GMT

Google Provided an open API for generating the charts which can be used in our commercial web applications. We can generate various graphs using the google chart api. The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=s:hW&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World The following types of charts are available:

Free Google Charts API Released

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:46:05 GMT

I'm not sure if this is .NET related enough, but it's got the potential to be very useful for any web development. You just pass the data and chart parameters on the QueryString and it returns a PNG with your chart. Pretty nifty.

Free charting for ASP.NET

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Open Flash Chart is an open source flash control that can display charts on a web page. The latest release contains an ASP.NET libary.

ASP.NET Charting with NPlot

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:46:03 GMT

There are several commercial charting libraries available for ASP.NET. They are extensively advertised, and can certainly do the job. However, frugal developers like me may prefer freeware alternatives. In this article we will examine using NPlot to create charts in an ASP.NET application. NPlot is a free, .NET native charting engine that excels at scientific charting. Read on to learn more!