One of the most frequently asked questions our sales and support teams have been getting over the past year or two is if we are going to make a gauges control that is on par with the rest of our controls. Our answer has always been yes, but it is only now that we are able to let the cat out of the bag. For the past few months we have been working on a WebGauge control for ASP.NET. Our goal with this control was simple: Create a control that has excellent server performance, is easy to use and is...

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Upon visiting the drill-down live demo in CompoentArt's new Charting gallery one can easily see the benefits of client-side events within WebChart's client-side API. Not only can you register event handlers when a data point or series is hovered over, but in that event handler you get access to the data point, series and chart client-side objects that are related to the data point. This goes a long way in building interactive UIs that show more information than just a chart image. But th...

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Zooming and scrolling is one of those essential features that is a must-have for any comprehensive charting product. However, deciding how to implement zooming and scrolling within WebChart was not obvious as there was no industry consensus on how this feature should look and operate, let alone how it should be implemented. Our first decision was an easy one as it had to do with the technology used to implement the feature. Right away we knew that we did not want any third party plug-ins (includ...

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We have just released Charting 2007.1 in both WebChart and WinChart editions as well as our new platform called SqlChart which is intended to work with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. This release brings all the eye candy you've come to expect from ComponentArt, but the question that may be floating in the clouds of our collective conscience is: Could it be that the only thing ComponentArt cares about is their look? The answer is no. After all, v anity is the quicksand of reason , t...

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