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New Features of Power BI

Today we are previewing new features for Power BI, our self-service business intelligence solution...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 12/19/2014

MS Chart Control: Getting Started

Scott Mitchell wrote a great series of articles where he describes how to use Microsoft Chart...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 12/07/2009

Setting Microsoft Chart Series Colors

Microsoft Chart control provides different ways to set color of the series and data points: Palettes...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 10/06/2009

MS Chart Layout Helper

MS Chart consists of different elements (like titles, legends, chart areas, …) which all share the...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 07/26/2009

Aligning Multiple Series with Categorical Values

Binding Categorical Data Overview Binding chart to the data source with categorical values is pretty...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 03/27/2009

Charting With ASP.NET and LINQ

Check out the new MSDN article about how to use ASP.NET Chart control with LINQ by K. Scott Allen:...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 03/06/2009

Deploying Microsoft Chart Controls

MSChart.exe setup should be used to deploy Microsoft Chart controls but what exactly need to be done...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 02/27/2009

Data Binding Microsoft Chart Control

Overview When you add a new visualization in your application, the very first thing you do, is bind...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 02/20/2009

ASP.NET Connections 2009

Have a question about the ASP.NET chart control? Want to meet and discuss the future visualization...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 02/20/2009

Using Chart HTTP Handler

Delian Tchoparinov just posted on his blog about chart image rendering using Chart HTTP Handlers....

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 01/12/2009

Chart SharePoint Web Part

You can easily create charting SharePoint Web Part using new Microsoft Chart Control. Wictor Wilen...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 12/04/2008

Microsoft Chart Control How-to: Improve Chart Performance

There are several main areas that affect performance of the chart: Data binding. Rendering of the...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 12/02/2008

Microsoft Chart Control How-to: Using in a SharePoint web site

Thanks to Marc Charmois we have a very nice example of using the chart control in the SharePoint web...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 11/29/2008

Combining ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Charting Controls

Melvin Harbour recently posted in his blog about using ASP.NET Chart control with ASP.NET MVC. Alex

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 11/26/2008

Microsoft Chart Control How-to: Add Rich Content Using Keywords

Adding Labels or Tooltips is a simple task in the chart, but what if we want to show more data than...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 11/11/2008

Microsoft Chart Control vs. Dundas Chart Control

I get a lot of questions about 'relationship' of our Microsoft Chart Control to the well known...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 11/07/2008

Creating 'small' charts with Microsoft Chart Control

Designing a chart when you have limited space available or when it's size can be dynamically changed...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 11/04/2008

New Silverlight Charting control announced at PDC 2008!

New Silverlight Charting control was announced today at PDC! It is part of the Silverlight Toolkit...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 10/28/2008

Microsoft Chart control for .NET Framework Released!

I glad to announce the release of Microsoft Chart for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which includes the...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 10/26/2008

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Alex Gorev and I am a software developer in the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)...

Author: Alex Gorev Date: 09/04/2008