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I would like to create an application that shows the history of disk usage.
I have already create a backend for geting data and now I would like to show this data in a line chart like this:
As you can see, I get date (DateTime) and usage (int) foreach disk.
My question:
Which silverlight component/tools should I use, to show the charts?
I'm looking for a free solution that is easy to understand/use.
There are a few options:
Visiblox, fast, high performance chart
Silverlight Toolkit a Microsoft chart, but a bit slow
Visifire, high performance chart with great looks and interactivity
My recommendations is to use Visifire. Its easy to use and has simple XAML structure. Visifire does most of the work automatically like placing AxisXLabels in multiple rows, AxisLabels in angled form, and auto skipping of those labels if there is an overlap. Apart from it there are other great exciting features provided by Visifire like Indicator, Zooming etc.
Last but not the least, it is the high performance charting component.
http://www.visifire.com/high_performance_silverlight_examples.php
For more info, please check out the exhaustive documentation.
http://www.visifire.com/visifire_charts_gauges_documentation.php
I would recommend you Silverlight Toolkit
see this and this for more details, sample code and sample charts
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I am trying to put together a solution for our office to map the cubicle and office layout. We currently have both php and C# applications, so the solution can be built in either. We have something in PHP already, that allows us to move people from one cubicle to another, but it is based off a static image size and point coordinates. For example, cubicle one is at (3px, 4px). While this solution is working, it doesn't allow for the image size to change, or for the image to change at all without significant coding to realign all of the points on the image. Is there a better solution that can be used or an open source library that would be helpful? A coworked suggested that the Google Maps API might be helpful, or Leaflet.js. However, these both use geocoding, so unless our current Lat and Long is accurate to like a foot, I don't see how these could help.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Update
Here is an image similar to the one we are using. We add absolutely positioned clickable divs over the image to show who sits there.
What your co-worker suggested is not so much the GMaps API itself but the implementations of rotations/geosync translation/zoom algorithms that would allow you to flip an image and all the points related to the image.
No specific code implementation, so I can't be more specific.
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Currently, I am looking for a (commercial or free) .NET/C# image processing library for a WinForms project to apply customizable effects like Instagram or Microsoft Office Word does, e.g.:
I found plenty of image libraries like:
ImageMagick
Lead Tools
Free Image
DotImage
...
Unfortunately, all these libraries seem to provide a rather low-level way of manipulating images. When it comes to high-level effects like borders, rotation, vintage filters like Instagram, etc., I found zero libraries.
(Ironically, for JavaScript, there are quite a few libraries out there)
Maybe there is no market for such a library, still I would love to have this function in my application without doing everything on my own.
Therefore my question is:
Is there a .NET library available to have a customizable and extendable way of applying various high-level filters to images?
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I am in need of a component for drawing financial charts with the following features for my application:
Live plotting.
OHLC Chart, candlestick chart and previous day close chart.
Various Analysis studies.
Easy distribution with designing tools.
Thank you.
If you are developing Windows Forms or web applications, the open-source Zedgraph is a good solution. You can see examples of OHLC and candlestick charts here. There is also sufficient designer support for incorporating Zedgraph graph controls into your forms.
.NET Framework 4.0 also contains Windows Forms charting out-of-the-box, although Zedgraph is more powerful.
WPF charting is available in the WPF Toolkit on Codeplex. It is even less complete than its Windows Forms correspondent, but on WPF it should at least be a decent open-source alternative.
Highcharts or Highstock - http://www.highcharts.com/
Highcharts or Highstock are used for web development though. Is that what you're after?
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I'm developing an application in c# using winforms and I need to print some documents like contracts, amortization tables and some other stuff, all based in predefined templates. Template's structure aren't that complex, just some tables, text formatting and two column pages. The goal is to print documents based on those templates with some data loaded dynamically. First I was thinking to achieve that using some PDF libraries like PDFSharp or iText but then I found out that there are other technologies like XPS or XSL-FO maybe suitable for my needs.
What are your recommendations guys? Any help would be appreciated.
How about doing office interop and just using Word templates?
The client would probably have to want to do this. The thing I like about it, is with bookmarks is pretty easy to replace data in the template with data from your application. It's also convenient when some of the static text changes. You can just update the templates and distribute them, no recompiling. Also if the client wants to preview it in Word before printing that is somewhat automatic. There are some nitty gritty details about using interop but with C# 4.0 it certainly got a lot easier and is always a good skill to have.
On the downside if your templates are in a convenient location an ornery user could go in and modify things and break the reports. Also with tables if you have a lot of data, the standard documented method of adding a cell at a time can be pretty slow. Creating delimited text and then doing the text-to-table call is pretty fast but then you have to do all the formatting in code.
On the XPS side I did see a good overview video on pluralsight. It was part of the WPF course so I'm not sure how it translates to a winform app. I think you get to watch at least a couple of hours for free so it might be worth checking out if you want to get an overview of how XPS printing works.
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I am looking out for a good open source Reporting tool/framework for windows based application (WPF).
The database I am using is sql server 2005.
The typical reports format which I am interested is for e.g. Trial balance, balance sheet, etc (typical banking / finance reporting application).
There should be good support for charting as well.
If anyone has any experience with reporting for WPF application, your inputs will be highly appreciated.
Take a look at http://wpfreports.codeplex.com/
Since this may form part of the answer, I thought of putting this in the answer section.
I just found this series of article
WPF multipage reports (note: original link dead, replaced with Wayback Machine link).
Thought of putting this here as this may benefit some other learner. This article walks through creating a reporting framework for LOB Apps.
As the saying goes "A Bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush", I will have a deep look at this until something else comes up with something better :)
PdfReport is a code first reporting engine, which is built on top of the iTextSharp and EPPlus libraries. It's compatible with both .NET 3.5+ Web and Windows applications.
As open source, this doesn't exist, at least not yet.
It probably doesn't exist commerical offering either. The WPF component market is just getting started.