ASP.NET Chart Controls

[DotNetWebs]

I have only just discovered that Microsoft now have available a free ASP.NET charting component for the ASP.NET 3.5 Framework (SP1):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=130f7986-bf49-4fe5-9ca8-910ae6ea442c&displaylang=en

Unless you were willing to spend a lot of time and effort coding it yourself, previously this sort of thing was only available with costly 3rd party components:

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Regards

Dotty

[Dwebs-Ltd]

Not all providers have it installed on their servers though :)

We installed it on all our boxes when it was released.

Not had chance to play with it yet though but from client feedback its supposed to be excellent.

[Carl-CSNM]

We installed it after some customers started requesting it, it certainly beats paying for those pesky third-party components! :D

[DotNetWebs]

...it certainly beats paying for those pesky third-party components! :D

I must admit I am very impressed with Microsoft at the moment. They are constantly releasing components that were previously only available as third party add ons. Recently we have had the IIS7 URLRewrite module which I posted about earlier.

Another excellent [currently pre-]release for ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 is the ScriptReferenceProfiler:

http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356

For anybody who doesn't know what this does it allows you to dynamically combine several JavaScript resources into one. This can have a major performance gain if you are using AJAX controls or make other heavy use of JavaScript resources etc.

A demonstration is here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2008/06/12/script-combining-screen-cast.aspx

Regards

Dotty