Dundas Chart for .NET 7 Now Available
Building on the profound success of Dundas Chart 6.2, the industry leader in advanced charting solutions has just released the latest edition of its flagship charting package. Dundas Chart version 7 offers significantly more options and features than any other .NET charting component in its space.
Among its many new highlights, Dundas's flagship charting product has expanded its award-winning feature set to include Silverlight extensibility,more exciting new chart types and helper add-ons.
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 7 Features Released April 27th, 2009
Silverlight Add-On
It's well known that Silverlight is an outstanding framework for rich content and interactivity. Version 7 gives developers a novel wrapper for letting you use a new or existing chart project in Silverlight applications. All your favorite interactive ASP.NET features are retained and even enhanced, including real-time charting, advanced tooltips for images & text, drill down, full hit testing, annotations and much more. (ASP.NET Pro & Ent)
Scorecard Chart Type
Dundas Chart's broad flexibility has allowed us to build an entirely new data visualization control: the Dundas Scorecard extension. Now you can create a balanced scorecard with bullet graphs, track inventory in a detailed grid, plus use this chart type side by side with the many other Dundas chart types, like Gantt charts. And there's more. In fact, the multifunctional scorecard control helps you create complex grid-based data visualizations with progress bars, spark lines/columns/areas (and more) fully integrated. (Enterprise editions only)
Pie Plus Custom Chart Type
Want to dramatically improve the look of your pie charts? Building on the ability to create custom chart types, Dundas has created a new kind of pie chart that gives you far more visualization versatility. While all your favorite elements and drawing styles are maintained, the new Pie Plus chart type gives you seven fresh additional drawing styles. (Enterprise editions only)
Contour Custom Chart Type
Need to render elevation or contours for your data visualization? The Contour chart type lets you convert any series into a contour map. (Enterprise editions only)
Tree Map Chart Type
Another chart type requested by Dundas customers, the innovative Tree Map custom chart type shows any two metrics at once, using both size and color. Think of it as a "heat map of a heat map" - it's great for things like stock indexes or tracking the status of your favorite sports teams. (Enterprise editions only)
Colored Area Custom Chart Types
Looking for a way to highlight a section of a chart? The new Colored Area chart types let you color a range in Area, Spline Area, Range and Spline Range charts, based on X values. (Enterprise editions only)
Cycle Plot Add-on
The new cycle plot add-on lets you visualize data from similar time periods and compare them together in an easily understandable way (i.e. compare every February for the last 10 years, compare every Tuesday for the year, etc).
Wafer Custom Chart Type
This new custom chart type (also known as a wafer map) is part of v7.0 of Dundas Chart for .NET. (Enterprise editions only)
Timeline Custom Chart Type
Looking for a way to view event data in the form of a timeline? Dundas Chart for .NET v7.0 gives you the ability to do this. (Enterprise editions only)
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 6.2 Features Released January 22nd, 2009
User Interface Localization Support (Enterprise)
Version 6.2 of Dundas Chart for .NET (Enterprise Edition) gives developers the ability to localize the User Interface elements of Dundas Chart for .NET using an external XML file.
Custom Chart Type Support (Enterprise Edition)
The latest iteration of Dundas Chart includes support for 37 different chart types, excluding the various add-ons that are available. Version 6.2 of Dundas Chart for .NET gives developers the power to make entirely new chart types and use them within Dundas Chart just like any of the ones we have created. This ensures that no matter what kind of new visualizations appear from dashboard theorists going forward, we will always have the ability to support you.
Introducing Column Plus (Enterprise Edition)
Building upon the ability to create custom chart types, Dundas has created a new version of our much-acclaimed column chart that gives you far more flexibility from a graphics perspective. This new chart type is all about flare - letting you saturate existing colors in order to give a much richer look - and it even boasts 15 new drawing styles!
Waterfall Charts (Custom Chart - Enterprise Edition)
This special type of floating-column chart typically shows how an initial value is increased and decreased by a series of intermediate values, which leads to a final value. If tracking currency prices, you'll see a starting price on one day, daily changes, then the final price. Quickly see where you were, where you are now, and how you got there!
Heatmap Charts (Custom Chart - Enterprise Edition)
Dundas offers 3 distinct types of heat maps: rectangular layout, horizontal and vertical. Data values are represented by user-selected colors. For example, if used to track investments, red and green colors could be used for bad and good stocks - you can instantly understand which is which.
Sparkline Chart (Custom Chart - Enterprise Edition)
Designed to be succinct and memorable, sparkline charts show no scales, numbers or references of any kind - just bare lines used for comparisons. The purpose is to provide a quick view (a snapshot!) of trends and variation, often seen with temperature statistics and stock market activity.
Chart Builder 3.0
Chart Builder 3.0 expands upon an already rich set of tools to make chart creation even easier! With the latest version, you can connect to more data sources, style charts quicker, generate more proof-of-concept data and even utilize custom chart types. The Chart Builder is also an excellent debugging tool.
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 6.1 Features Released January 28th, 2008
Optimized For Visual Studio 2008
You can now utilize the next generation of Microsoft technology! Dundas is proud to offer one of the first controls optimized for Visual Studio 2008.
New Rose Chart Styles
Two new Rose Chart types have been added: Stacked and Radial Gap. Both requested by Dundas customers, Stacked allows you to display one set of data atop another for a more versatile Rose Chart. The Radial Gap offers the option of providing a hole in the center of the Rose Chart - a subtle change, but it offers a similar visual difference in the way a Pie Chart can become a Doughnut Chart.
Vertical Column Labels
A new attribute for 2D column charts, labels can now be painted vertically inside the column, adding greater flexibility when considering labels.
Data Point Label Offset Attribute
With Chart 6.1, you can now customize the exact offset of the data point to the label. It's just another way for Dundas Chart to ensure you have the exact look you want.
Server Scroll Events For AJAX (Web Only)
Developers can now handle chart scroll events on the server side, since the server now intelligently manages AJAX requests. This optimizes the user experience by providing more responsiveness and more bandwidth efficiency. It also better utilizes server resources.
Custom Data Point Palette Property
Custom colors can now be applied for each point individually, giving your charts more visual power and versatility.
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 6.0 Features Released October 31st, 2007
Rose Charts
Version 6.0 includes the new Rose Chart type. The Rose Chart type is a circular chart that allows for great data comparison between data series.
* Part of the Enterprise Edition
The new and powerful Chart Builder utility lets developers and non-developers alike quickly create, modify and enhance new and existing charts with just a few clicks. With full import/export capabilities and much more, it is a valuable proof-of-concept tool for managers, designers and developers.
New Palettes
Dundas Chart has added 11 new color palettes to the original Dundas Chart Palettes. These palettes include Acid Wash, Art Deco, Dundas Dark, Kindergarten, Milkshake, Mild Day, Rainbow Vapors, Tanzanite, Tan, Vegas and Water Lilies.
Multiple Axis Support
Multiple Axis allows for greater control and flexibility when dealing with data. Each sub axis can be customized using its properties to meet your needs.
Horizontal Error Bars
Version 6.0 gives developers the ability to add error bars to bar charts, which offers additional statistical information for more in-depth analysis.
* Part of the Enterprise Edition
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 5.51 Features Released January
22nd, 2007
Version 5.51 of Dundas Chart for .NET comes with
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Compatibility,
updates to the sample
environment, and over 50 product fixes.See
the complete list of what's new �
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 5.5 Features Released May
30th, 2006
In addition to the new features (Zooming, Scrolling and UI
Support) that use AJAX implementations, v5.5 leverages ASP.NET 2.0
client callbacks to provide you with increased interactivity on the
chart. Add point-and-click functionality, handle drill-down &
mouse-over events, and even create real-time charts without
post-backs.Read AJAX Whitepaper »
Get the functionality of a desktop app on the web with the new
zooming and scrolling functionality in v5.5 of Dundas Chart for
.NET. Using AJAX technology, the latest release lets users
zoom in and scroll large sets of data, making it much easier to
navigate and understand.
Using AJAX technology, the new web-based User Interface abilities
are both lightweight and powerful. Provide your end users with
toolbars, context menus and property dialogs to manipulate the look
and feel of charts or insert key data analysis at run-time.
* Part of the Enterprise Edition
Scale breaks are powerful functionality that allow you to
customize your chart so that large differences between the high and
low values of the data being plotted does not diminish the
readability of your chart. If you have a data spike that makes
your charts unreadable, Scale-Breaks can help.Read Scale Breaks Whitepaper »
Legends now have much more abilities with new added features such
as title text wrapping, multi-column legends, interlaced rows, width
and height specification, new properties to set title colors, fonts,
alignments, and more.
Several exciting new 2D and 3D visualizations are new to v5.5 of
Dundas Chart for .NET. Add new visual effects to several chart
types to give them a completely new look and feel.
Automatically set the collected data within a pie/doughnut chart.
Set the collected data threshold (either by value or percentage),
and customize several aspects of the collected data (tooltip, text,
color, exploded, etc.)
New to v5.5, you can now group stacked bar/column chart series data
for easier interpretation and added customization.
If you have thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of data
points or more, the new FastPoint(TM) chart type can help.
Complimenting the FastLine(TM) chart type, the FastPoint(TM) charts
are optimized to display large data sets quickly and efficiently.
* Part of the Enterprise Edition
New in Dundas Chart v5.5, developers have the option of creating
their own custom color palettes to compliment the existing palettes.
This allows companies to quickly define their own corporate colors
for series data.
New to version 5.5, three utility classes provide you with additional tools to organize and focus chart data quickly based on common company process models. Use the Six Sigma utility class to create control charts and display upper/lower control limits to detect and verify process variations (Enterprise Edition only). The Pass Band Filter class helps you to isolate data cross-sections, displaying important trends within a specific data range. Read Six Sigma Whitepaper »
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 5.0 Features Released Nov. 7th, 2005
A complete set of .NET components designed to assist companies with fast, interactive, analytical processing of their multidimensional data, the Dundas OLAP Clients (Windows Forms and ASP.NET) are a ready-to-use, fully managed .NET controls that allow users to begin analyzing data in a matter of seconds with just a few lines of code.
* Part of the Enterprise Editions of Version 5.0 for a Limited Time
We've made sure to leverage the new features of Visual Studio 2005 in the latest release of Dundas Chart for .NET. Version 5.0 includes full compatibility to VS2005 as well as some exciting features such as Smart Tags, high level data binding, debugging display, data series visualizer and more.
Side by side installation for Visual Studio 2003 & 2005
To ensure a smooth transition between Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005, Version 5.0 offers separate installations for each development platform.
Custom label enhancements
New to Version 5.0, developers can associate a custom label to an image, a tooltip, an HREF or even an object
Improved group labeling
It is often difficult to distinguish between different groups of data on the chart. In Version 5.0, the introduction of the LabelMark.Box property gives developers the opportunity to separate different groups of data using distinct boxes which improves readability
Ability to show/hide property tabs
When using the Dundas Chart for .NET User Interface, any tab in the Property Dialog can be shown or hidden. This is particularly useful if the developer wishes to control the end user's ability to change options relating to color, legends and labels of the chart.
Enterprise Editions only
Enhanced sample framework
With new samples, added gallery images, expanded overviews and accompanying screenshots, our sample framework is easier than ever before to get you started with Dundas Chart for .NET.
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 4.51 Released April 2005
Pie Chart Small Segment
Ability to collapse/expand pie by adding supplemental pie chart - This new enhancement to Pie/Doughnut charts increases the readability and effectiveness of Pie/Doughnut charts by showing small segments as a supplemental pie chart.
Histograms
New chart types: Histogram - Histogram charts, new to version 4.51, display the number of times a value in a selected column falls within a specified data range. These can be displayed several ways, including using one or two axis' to represent distributions.
Pie Chart Start End Angles
Pie Chart Start/End angle - New to version 4.51, developers can now customize the start angle for Doughnut/Pie charts to add additional customization options to charts.
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 4.5 Released January 2005
Pyramid Charts
The latest edition of Dundas Chart for .NET includes Pyramid Charts. Custom attributes include circular, or square base, neck width, point gap, customizable label styles and more.
Enterprise Edition only
Funnel Charts
Version 4.5 includes Funnel Charts, with an assortment of available customizations, including circular, or square base, neck width, point gap, customizable label styles and more
Enterprise Edition only
Polar Charts
Polar Charts are now part of Version 4.5 of Dundas Chart for .NET (Enterprise Editions Only)
Enterprise Edition only
User Interface Support - Chart Commands
Version 4.5 of Dundas Chart for .NET offers several advanced User Interface features including Chart Commands, Toolbars, Context Menus and Property Pages.
Enterprise Edition only
User Interface Support - Toolbars
The toolbar is a set of controls that provides the end user with options to quickly access key chart options. Much like the other chart objects, the toolbar has appearance properties to customize borders, frames and shadows offsets.
Enterprise Edition only
User Interface Support - Property Pages
When the Property command is added to the UI, end users can customize all properties relating to the chart by making use of the Property Dialog.
Enterprise Edition only
User Interface Support - Context Menus
When a chart element is right-clicked with the mouse, the context menu will display a list of commands that can be used to customize the corresponding chart element.
Enterprise Edition only
FastLine™ Charts
FastLine™ Charts are line charts, optimized to handle datasets with a large number of data points.
Enterprise Edition only
Data Point Label Customization
Data point label drawing is significantly enhanced by providing an ability to draw borders and/or backgrounds around labels. This feature makes labels more readable and easier to interpret.
Custom Attribute Builder
Within the designer, a list of available custom attributes is automatically built, depending on which particular chart type is selected, eliminating the need to search for the attribute name within the documentation.
Empty Data Points - now part of Professional Edition!
Support for empty data points has been added to the Professional Edition.
Dundas Chart for .NET Version 4.1 Released August 2004
Annotation Objects
Annotations allow users of Dundas Chart for .NET to add a wide range of different shapes to the chart without the complexity of custom drawing. In addition, the Windows Forms Edition allows the end user to dynamically add annotations to the chart using several different shapes.
Enterprise Edition only
Animation Frame Rate Control
Control the Frames per second on your animated Flash Charts.
Enterprise Edition only
Extended Data Binding
Existing Data Binding functionality has been extended to provide greater flexibility in series binding, allowing automatic data binding of charts to data sources based on the data provided.