Microsoft released the ASP.NET Charting Control for .NET 3.5 SP1 on Tuesday and it looks very promising indeed. This isn’t entirely surprising seeing as this control was bought from Dundas before being released as a free download, rather than developed my Microsoft in-house. Downloading and viewing the Samples Pack reveals just how powerful this tool is, and how it can be seamlessly integrated with just about any data source.

I’m not entirely sure what Dundas have achieved by basically creating themselves a new competitor by allowing Microsoft to give the product away for nothing. Unless they are expecting users to want to ‘upgrade’ to the Flash-based Dundas charting tools which are not provided as part of this control.

Happy charting!

We use a lot of Virtual Machines at work (mostly using VMWare) and unfortunately they are not always configured with sufficient disk space. If you need to increase the space allocated to an existing drive then check out the following article for step-by-step instructions:

• HOW-TO: Increase the size of an existing VMWare Hard Disk (VMDK)

The open source disk partitioning software recommended in the article also seems to work a treat once the space has been increased.