Monday, April 26, 2010

ASP.NET Chart Controls Without Web Forms

Posted by at 10:50 AM

I started tinkering with the ASP.NET chart controls last week for a project at work, and the samples available from Microsoft are excellent, except they're mostly all using web forms. So I took it upon myself to do a few things:
  • Upgraded the existing samples from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0.

  • Added a sample project 'ChartsWithoutWebForms' to show one way to utilize the ASP.NET charts without using web forms at all.

  • Added a sample project 'ChartsWithMVC' to show one way to utilize the ASP.NET charts with the ASP.NET MVC framework.
The basic idea behind the two additional projects is that the chart is rendered as an image, which means you lose some interactive functionality, but my examples show that you can still fake some interactivity.

I also have an example that shows how you might create a dynamic charting system, which is actually what I'm working on now, but the work is venturing into an area where it will be specific to my employer, so I want to release the samples before that happens.

Feel free to take these updated samples and use them as you see fit. Hopefully they will help you out.

You can download the samples here:
http://www.downcastsystems.com/files/ChartSamples.zip
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5 comments:

Jordy said...

Can you also post the 3.5 project files so people with 2k8 can also open the project instead of the single files :)

Thanks Jordy

May 17, 2010 11:36 PM
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January 25, 2011 10:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Nice job, hope you will catch to release interactivity samples before you become too secret ))

February 10, 2011 12:39 AM
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March 21, 2011 8:57 AM

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