By host on Sunday, December 21, 2008 2:37 PM

Greetings,

While I as at OpenForce 08, I had a rather interesting talk with Alex Gorev (blog) from Microsoft.  He is part of the team that released the new charting library from Microsoft.  This library is based on Dundas Charts code base from 2007.  Microsoft bought the software -- Dundas Charts still exists and has moved on with newer products. 

However, the new charting library is a welcome addition to the Microsoft installed base.  I have been working on a Charting module for over a year but have not been please due to the specific libraries required.  The module needed ZedGraph and Itextsharp to be installed on a users site.. Problem is this could colide with another library version already installed on the user site.  

With the new Microsoft Library, the problem is solved in that the library is part of the ASP.NET install (V3.5 SP1) but can be installed on V3.5.  So once the hosting provider has this library available (or you place on your server) ... you can take advantage of the...

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