Dundas OLAP Services v7.0 Now Available

Version 7.0 of Dundas Chart OLAP Services is now in full production.

The following lists some of the key new highlights added to v7.0 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services - as well as recent feature additions from the past few months.

New Features for v7.0 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services Released August 24th, 2009

*For a complete list of features, see the Dundas Chart for OLAP Services General Features Page >>

Quality, Performance And Compatibility Enhancements

We have made even more improvements on Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services to ensure that your projects run smoothly.

Dundas OLAP Services v6.2 Now Available

Version 6.2 of Dundas Chart OLAP Services is now in full production, leveraging many of the industry-leading features found in Dundas Chart for .NET v6.2.

The following lists some of the key new highlights added to v6.2 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services - as well as recent feature additions from the past few months.

New Features for v6.2 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services Released January 22nd, 2009

*For a complete list of features, see the Dundas Chart for OLAP Services General Features Page »

Significant Performance Enhancements

We want to make sure you get the best performance out of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services and have made some major enhancements to accomplish this. With new modifications, including schema caching and cell set paging, processing time is dramatically improved.

Multi-Language U.I. Localization Support

Customize the language of the OLAP controls in the language you need. Version 6.2 now has the ability to localize items (grid, chart and browser), including titles, dialogues, tooltips and more.

KPI Support

Ensure you're making the right business decisions! You can now view and select your database's key performance indicators in charts or grids via the Measures/Dimensions pane. Use drag & drop functionality to display KPIs as numbers or graphics, with the latter boasting customization capabilities. In addition to the benefits of showing KPIs, state indicators are now presented in the chart area.

Paging Support

For clients using large cell sets, you can now see results much quicker with the new paging support in v6.2. Visualize your large OLAP cube data instantly without having to wait for the entire cell set data to load.

Text Wrapping for Grid Cells

Cell wrapping functionality is now part of the OLAP Grid control in version 6.2.

New Features in v6.1 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services Released March 25th, 2008

*For a complete list of features, see the Dundas Chart for OLAP Services General Features Page »

2008 Design time support

The OLAP controls are visible in design time in Visual Studio 2008 and work properly, there is no broken images on control or empty controls.

Advanced DimensionEditDialog paging – web only

A new feature allowing users to visually navigate to (and easily select) cube dimension subsets. Users can specify a page number in the paging control or change a page via arrows.

Export data from OlapGrid to Excel (WEB)

Reuse your work! You can now save data snapshots to HTML as a simple way of reusing your data for documents and spreadsheets. This is new functionality for OLAP Grid.

Persist Series Label

Now have better attributes management during callbacks.

Support "Display Folder" for measures

Supports "Display Folder" for calculated members - In the dimension browser, you can now see different metadata objects including calculated measures organized into logical structures.

Range Specification Now Supported

Range expressions can now be used in MDX queries for tighter data recall. We've added a property for MembersRangeList (our DimensionDescriptor) and now users don't have to enumerate each member for dimension members - you can now use the MembersRange property and set Left and Right Members.

Safari Support for OLAP Grid

OLAP Grid is now visible in Safari and allows drill up / drill down, measures and dimensions drag + drop, scrolling and other functionality (works for Firefox and IE).

New Features in v6.0 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services Released October 30th, 2007

On-demand load

Display the member tree within the Dimension Edit Dialog partially with members loaded on demand. By clicking on the arrow, you now can load the next page of members.

Other Version 6.0 Features

Ability to save Olap Grid as an image in a file (Windows Forms only),
Save additional chart properties (Label/Axis properties) in the OlapReport,
Disable context menu in the OlapGrid,
Suppress Olap Grid sub-totals

New Features in v5.51 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services Released January 29th, 2007

*For a complete list of features, see the Dundas Chart for OLAP Services General Features Page »

Version 5.51 Features

Version 5.51 of Dundas OLAP Services for .NET comes with Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Compatibility, several product fixes, and includes over 50 product fixes from Dundas Chart for .NET .

New Features in v5.5 of Dundas Chart for .NET OLAP Services Released November 15th, 2006

New OLAP Grid Control

The new OLAP Grid control is an exciting new customizable feature that displays numerical details about all OLAP queries in a multidimensional table.  Commonly used to view a specific OLAP record or provide a simple summary of the OLAP data in "spreadsheet" form it allows for simultaneous updates on both controls after any drilll down, filter or sort operations.

OLAP Toolbar using AJAX technology

The new toolbar lets you get one-click functionality for common grid, chart and OLAP Services tasks. Includes commands to save, print, copy or preview OLAP report data.  Update color templates, modify various properties of the chart with easy-to-use, built-in Property Dialogs or add your own custom commands to extend toolbar functionality and much more.

AJAX based scrolling

Using AJAX technology, the latest release gives users increased readability when viewing complicated, OLAP queries.  The new functionality lets users scroll data that overflows from the chart area, making it much easier to navigate and understand chart data.

Support for Accumulative Chart types

Version 5.5 gives you the ability to make use of a whole new assortment of chart types when visualizing your multidimensional databases.  Now make use of Pie, Doughnut, Funnel and Pyramid charts.

Leverages new features of Dundas Chart for .NET

Make use of new Chart for .NET features such as AJAX implementations using ASP.NET 2.0 callbacks, new 2-D and 3-D drawing effects, scale breaks to reduce spacing issues between data points in a series,
custom palettes and more.

Updated OLAP Client

The expanded, re-positioned toolbar in version 5.5 simplifies performing tasks related to OLAP data. A new tab control allows end users to easily switch between two types of data analysis (chart/grid) for easier data analysis