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I have a SQL express 2012 database. I have written several linq queries to bring back various interesting data just using Linqpad but I need a way to generate easy to see charts and graphs from this data.
I don't have any budget to buy any expensive licenses. Is there anything free that I could use in either a console app or asp.net site to generate nice looking charts and graphs from my linq to sql queries?
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For asp.net you could use the charts from the AjaxControllToolkit
Examples:
Line Chart
Pie Chart
Bubble Chart
Area Chart
Bar Chart
Its free, easy to use and really looks nice to me.
Used it in many projects allready.
Microsoft released a chart control a while back that's free and works with both windows and ASP.NET. Some info here. It's probably included in the framework, or a standalone download for the older framework is available here.
Anyway, you have to convert your LINQ entities into the objects that the chart control expects, but it's not that hard to do. Some examples here.
In case You are developing a web frontend, you could project your results into json and use http://d3js.org/ .
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I was tasked to create a new Website - to make it similar to Facebook. ( were talking without games) so a standart backend with CMS for media sites.
I am familiar with VS'12, asp.net MVC3 & 4 C# or Vb.net , html5 and other languages and feel fit to start this.
What i wanted to know is if there is any Template, Backends, Nuget Packages, Open Source Applications out there for Visual Studio so I don't have to recreate the wheel?
I have looked where i know to look so a great answer would be a Template, Backend, Nuget Package and where you found it. Or possibly another method of getting started that i didn't list / am not aware of
Please do not come back at me with any PHP templates, for i would not be interested in it.
Thanks in advance.
Take a look here: MonoX
Free ASP.NET Content Management and Social Networking Platform
MonoX comes with everything you need to build advanced social networks.
MonoX includes very powerful content management functionality.
Mono Software provides MonoX blogs, tutorials and support forums.
This is something I'd recommend.
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I want to develop my blog website in ASP.NET. What could be the best way I can write my blog through?
I mean will Tiny MCE work for me, last time when I used it I faced terrible formatting issues. Because my blog will include code, different formatting, pictures etc. Please suggest me how to post blog?
I am using ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005.
Why write your own from scratch? Take a look at Orchard CMS. It's an opensource .NET CMS being developed with help from Microsoft http://www.orchardproject.net/
Its fairly new, so there's still some features missing, but its really easy to get setup and since you're a .NET developer you can add your own functionality.
I agree with Jamiegs. Blogging is by and large a solved problem. Why not use an existing package? Most packages will include much more than anything you'd put together in your spare time not to mention that you'll benefit from all of the field testing too.
I settled on hosted Wordpress and just pointed my domain there. Hosted Wordpress is somewhat more limited than self-hosted (you can't install your own themes, etc...) but I've hardly found it restrictive. Their documentation around the various shortcodes for displaying source code or embedding maps is pretty complete.
I have been using Obout's html editor almost a year now without any problems. http://obout.com/editor_new/sample_full.aspx . Ajax Toolkit has free lite version of Obout's editor.
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I'm looking for a decent free control, library, or tutorial that allow graphing on .NET CF... I'm currently using v2.0 but can probably upgrade to 3.5.
I will also want to be able to save the graph as an image.
Two years ago i did nearly the same search and found several one, but nothing really excited me. Here are my old result:
Mooseworks Trend Graph Control
MindFusion PocketChart
Steema TeeChart
QCChart2D CF Charting Tools
QCRTGraph CF - Real-Time Graphics Tools
Maybe one or all of them released new versions in the meantime with better performance, but better check it for yourself.
How much functionality do you actually need?
For a CF project I did in the past, we just used a few bitmaps as the background grid and drew the plots on there. It was pretty simple and low-tech, but I was surprised at how well it served us.
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Can anyone recommend a free grid/graphing component for C#/.NET? I'm having a look at NPlot right now, but so far I'm finding it quite troublesome.
EDIT: I particularly need something that plugs into Windows Forms - I'm not doing ASP.NET, and don't really fancy reproducing my graph using Google's API every time I get a new data point (several times a second).
Thanks :-)
MS just released one if you are using 3.5 or you could use ZedGraph
EDIT: The Link is Just a ASP.NET demo they have a Windows Forms Release as well with DEMOS
Microsofts Chart Control
MS Chart Controls (VS tools) work with winforms too:
Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft
.NET Framework 3.5 will install new
assemblies that contain the ASP.NET
and Windows Forms Chart Controls.
I haven't had time to use it yet, so I don't know whether it supports charting/plotting (rather than data-graphing).
I can highly recommend ZedGraph (http://zedgraph.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). It was very easy to configure from my experience (and well documented), not to mention that it seems really quite versatile.
Zedgraph seems to be a good tool to plot 2d lines anc histograms. Is there a c# library which allow to visualize 2D data (f[x,y]) as the matlab function pcolor or imagesc ?
Take a look at Dynamic Data Display on CodePlex. It's a pretty rich library for WPF with good documentation and good sample code.
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I am looking for some (preferably) online tutorials on making controls with 'Rich design-time support'
By Rich design time support i mean like how the menustrip works on a form and such.
Any links to websites, good books or code samples (c# or vb.net) would be great.
You can start with Dissecting A C# Application which goes into many aspects of creating SharpDevelop, C# IDE written in .NET. This covers many aspects of the designer architecture and it is free in a PDF. However, the PDF is hard to find (original links no longer work, but I believe this is a valid copy).
While that will get you started on the ins and outs of the designer, it probably doesn't go into detail on some of the more interesting features such as actions and tasks. For this, MSDN has some extensive information and examples (it didn't used to).
Finally, I find the best resource to be .NET Reflector. Using this tool to look at how Microsoft has done it in various places within the framework has been a great learning exercise when working in design-time support areas. Find a control that does what you want and then go see how it does it.
All of these resources are free, however your time is not. I have found that design-time support can be a breeze in some areas but a complete nightmare in others. Good luck.