Steve Wellens
Programming in the .Net environment
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Custom Annotate Your Charts
A few posts back, I described the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework: Chart Demo. While playing with the controls a bit over the holidays, I was pleasantly surprised to find you can hook into the paint events while the chart is being rendered.
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Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework
I haven't been impressed by any new technology in a long time…until I downloaded and tried out the new Microsoft Chart Controls for the .Net Framework. It contains charts for both Forms and Asp.Net applications. It was easy to put this chart in an Asp.Net page:
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Free Tools that I Use
Here are tools I use on a regular basis. They have attributes I find essential:
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Summing Columns in a GridView
Level: Beginner.
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Nested Generic Lists? Cool!
While answering a question on the Asp.Net forums, I was pleasantly surprised to find nested Generic Lists are possible. They seem much easier than multidimensional arrays.
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Converting Strings to Enums
Enums are great. They provide additional type safety and make code more readable.