First draft of Charting Component Guide completed

Last night I finished up the first draft of the How-To-Select Guide for .NET Charting Components. Wow, that was a lot of work. I knew that there were a lot of charting vendors out there but didn't realize how much work it would take to compile a profile and review the products of each one. What's really scary is that for this edition of the Guide, we probably only included one-half to one-third of all the vendors out there. Some we included are open source and I was actually surprised at the quality of them. Others like Dundas, Telerik, Nevron, ComponentOne, Infragistics, etc. just blew me away with the breadth of charts they could create. Truly amazing.

So far, it looks like I'm in for the same kind of challenge on the O/R Mapper Guide. It should be interesting...

Thanks to all of those that left comments on my last post about O/R Mapper decision points. I'll be looking over them again when I compile features.