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  • Marco Trapanese
    #1

    Two questions about charts


    Hi,

    I need to insert some charts in my program. In detail, I acquire a lot
    of values from the serial ports and I want to plot them on a 2-axis chart.

    I know I can draw manually into a picture box but I'm looking for a
    ready-to-use control.

    So, the questions:

    1) Are there free or low-cost controls to achieve that?

    2) I know the great Dundas Chart but it is too much expensive for me. I
    read it is included in the VB.NET resource kit. What's that? Where can I
    find it? This time google is not my friend :) I found only few
    unofficial pages with some words about it.

    Thanks a lot
    Marco / iw2nzm

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    • Joergen Bech
      #2
      Re: Two questions about charts

      On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:59:08 GMT, Marco Trapanese
      <marcotrapanese NOSPAM@libero.i twrote:
      >
      >Hi,
      >
      >I need to insert some charts in my program. In detail, I acquire a lot
      >of values from the serial ports and I want to plot them on a 2-axis chart.
      >
      >I know I can draw manually into a picture box but I'm looking for a
      >ready-to-use control.
      >
      >So, the questions:
      >
      >1) Are there free or low-cost controls to achieve that?
      >
      >2) I know the great Dundas Chart but it is too much expensive for me. I
      >read it is included in the VB.NET resource kit. What's that? Where can I
      >find it? This time google is not my friend :) I found only few
      >unofficial pages with some words about it.
      >
      >Thanks a lot
      >Marco / iw2nzm
      According to Google, the .Net 2003 version is no longer available and
      there is no such thing for 2005:
      http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/lib...92(VS.71).aspx

      If there was, it should be listed here:
      http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789072.aspx

      If you click on the Dundas link from here:
      http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789077.aspx

      you end up here:
      Dundas BI, Managed Dashboards & Reports Support - Logi Symphony
      http://www.dundas.com/products/chart/net/index.aspx?campaign=msdn


      but I don't really see what benefits one gets from the "campaign=m sdn"
      part of the URL. Probably just something that tells Dundas that you
      came from the MSDN page.

      Regards,

      Joergen Bech



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        • Marco Trapanese
          #3
          Re: Two questions about charts

          Joergen Bech <jbech<NOSPAM >@ wrote:
          According to Google, the .Net 2003 version is no longer available and
          there is no such thing for 2005:
          http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/lib...92(VS.71).aspx
          >
          If there was, it should be listed here:
          http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789072.aspx
          >
          If you click on the Dundas link from here:
          http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789077.aspx
          >
          you end up here:
          http://www.dundas.com/products/chart...?campaign=msdn

          Thanks for the links. I saved the second one for future updates.

          Ok, so I need to looking for other chart controls!
          Marco / iw2nzm

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            • rowe_newsgroups
              #4
              Re: Two questions about charts

              On Jul 2, 5:19 am, Marco Trapanese <marcotrapanese NOS...@libero.i t>
              wrote:
              Joergen Bech <jbech<NOSPAM >@ wrote:
              According to Google, the .Net 2003 version is no longer available and
              there is no such thing for 2005:
              http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/lib...92(VS.71).aspx
              >
              If there was, it should be listed here:
              http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789072.aspx
              >
              If you click on the Dundas link from here:
              http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789077.aspx
              >
              you end up here:
              http://www.dundas.com/products/chart...?campaign=msdn
              >
              Thanks for the links. I saved the second one for future updates.
              >
              Ok, so I need to looking for other chart controls!
              Marco / iw2nzm
              I would do some searching on www.codeproject.com. I did a search for
              "charts" and it brought up quite a few articles that could be of use
              to you. Many are already wrapped into a control library, so you should
              be able to find something.

              Thanks,

              Seth Rowe

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                • Dick Grier
                  #5
                  Re: Two questions about charts

                  Hi,

                  I understand your concerns.

                  I use two products, National Instruments (www.ni.com), Measurement Studio
                  (about $600) and IOComp PlotPak (www.iocomp.com) (about $900). These
                  provide very professional results, and have nice APIs. However, they are
                  fairly expensive, so...

                  Take a look at: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/library/fplot.asp

                  However, there also is a free dll that may interest you. Google tracker.dll
                  (I do not have the URL, sorry). It does a nice job for a simple
                  oscillographic display, though I haven't used it for any projects.

                  Dick

                  --
                  Richard Grier, MVP
                  Hard & Software
                  Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth
                  Edition,
                  ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004, Revised March
                  2006.
                  See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information.


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                    • Dick Grier
                      #6
                      Re: Two questions about charts

                      Hi,

                      I forgot one quite inexpensive product that I should have suggested:

                      Mooseworks Software |
                      http://www.mooseworkssoftware.com/


                      This may be just the "ticket."

                      Dick

                      --
                      Richard Grier, MVP
                      Hard & Software
                      Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth
                      Edition,
                      ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004, Revised March
                      2006.
                      See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information.


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                        • Marco Trapanese
                          #7
                          Re: Two questions about charts

                          Dick Grier wrote:
                          Hi,
                          >
                          I understand your concerns.
                          >
                          I use two products, National Instruments (www.ni.com), Measurement Studio
                          (about $600) and IOComp PlotPak (www.iocomp.com) (about $900). These
                          provide very professional results, and have nice APIs. However, they are
                          fairly expensive, so...
                          >
                          Take a look at: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/library/fplot.asp
                          >
                          However, there also is a free dll that may interest you. Google tracker.dll
                          (I do not have the URL, sorry). It does a nice job for a simple
                          oscillographic display, though I haven't used it for any projects.

                          Thanks to you too for the link!

                          Marco / iw2nzm

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                            • Rad [Visual C# MVP]
                              #8
                              Re: Two questions about charts

                              Marco Trapanese wrote:
                              >
                              Hi,
                              >
                              I need to insert some charts in my program. In detail, I acquire a lot
                              of values from the serial ports and I want to plot them on a 2-axis chart.
                              >
                              I know I can draw manually into a picture box but I'm looking for a
                              ready-to-use control.
                              >
                              So, the questions:
                              >
                              1) Are there free or low-cost controls to achieve that?
                              >
                              2) I know the great Dundas Chart but it is too much expensive for me. I
                              read it is included in the VB.NET resource kit. What's that? Where can I
                              find it? This time google is not my friend :) I found only few
                              unofficial pages with some words about it.
                              >
                              Thanks a lot
                              Marco / iw2nzm
                              >
                              Have a look at nplot ... it's also pretty good, especially for financial
                              type charts

                              --
                              http://bytes.thinkersroom.com

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                                • Marco Trapanese
                                  #9
                                  Re: Two questions about charts

                                  Rad [Visual C# MVP] wrote:
                                  Have a look at nplot ... it's also pretty good, especially for financial
                                  type charts

                                  I'll do. Thanks.

                                  Marco / iw2nzm

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                                    • mojeza
                                      #10
                                      Re: Two questions about charts

                                      Another one to check is ChartDirector:
                                      Chart and Graph Component, Control and Plotting Library for .NET (C#/VB), Java, C++, ASP, COM, PHP, Perl, Python
                                      http://www.advsofteng.com/product.html
                                      Chart and Graph Component, Control and Library for .NET (C#/VB), Java, C++, ASP, COM, PHP, Perl, Python


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