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:
The open source disk partitioning software recommended in the article also seems to work a treat once the space has been increased.
Google will today release the beta version of their first foray into the browser arena with Google Chrome. Apart from a pretty lame name, what is the search giant offering in the first of its planned iterative product release?
- Proper multi-processing, allowing JavaScript (for example) within tabs to execute separately from other tabs and processes within the browser
- Intelligent memory management
- Runs on the open source WebKit engine already used in Google’s Android mobile handset operating system
- Automated compatibility testing across millions of existing web pages
- Shortcuts to common browser functions, such as custom search
- Decent popup management
- Web applications given their own chrome to feel more like desktop apps
- Intuitive security model providing proper process sand-boxing
- Always-active phishing signature updates
All in all this sounds like a pretty promising package but I’ll remain dubious until the beta is released later today and we can have a play ourselves. One does wonder how Google Chrome may affect the great work of the Mozilla project but they seem pretty satisfied by the new Firefox competitor.