What is ComponentArt Dashboard Server? Since our recent announcement of ComponentArt Dashboard Server , there has been a lot of interest and excitement about the technology, and understandably so: We can now target any mobile device including iPads, iPhones...
Last week at the 2011 BUILD conference Microsoft unveiled their grand strategy for Windows 8. In the process they really set the direction for all Microsoft-based client technologies for the next decade. It is worth acknowledging the magnitude of this...
Hi everyone, The ComponentArt production team has been very busy wrapping up Data Visualization 2011, which is coming very soon, but I'll be taking some time out next Tuesday to talk about cloud-powered digital dashboards . If you'd like to learn...
I am very pleased to announce our latest release -- ComponentArt Data Visualization for Windows Phone 7 -- the industry's first complete framework for building interactive mobile dashboards targeting Microsoft's new mobile operating system. There...
Windows Phone 7 represents a huge advance in mobile technology from Microsoft, ComponentArt is proud to support this exciting new platform with a full suite of DataVisualization controls for Windows Phone 7 Apps. GETTING STARTED Windows Phone 7 development...
Hosting a ComponentArt dashboard in SharePoint 2010 is a scenario which comes up a lot in conversation with clients here at ComponentArt. This is very possible using our DataVisualization package as well as standard controls (by way of the Silverlight...
IMPORTANT : Some details of the following tutorial have been made obsolete by API changes introduced in Data Visualization 2011. An updated tutorial in the live docs reflects the new functionality. The old tutorial continues below. A common scenario faced...
XYChart's XCoordinatePopup is a popup that is shown when the user's cursor hovers over the main area i.e. the rectangular region where datapoints are rendered. The popup's contents generally reveal details about the datapoints that lie along...
The visual layout for ComponentArt's XYChart for DataVisualization control is composed of five regions called Areas. This article aims to give an idea of what these regions are, so that you can better customize your own. Figure 1. shows the arrangement...
There are times during development when it is not possible for controls to access live data from within the Visual Studio Design-Time environment. When this occurs it can be advantageous to have sample data available during Design-Time which reflects...
This tutorial will walk you through the steps necessary to get a ComponentArt DataVisualization for Silverlight Map control up and running. 1. Create a new Project In Visual Studio, create a new "Silverlight Application" project. Call it "MyFirstMap"...
T he City of Toronto has released their Official Election Results . ComponentArt being a Toronto based company I thought this data offered a great way to showcase our Map control and present an informative and intuitive view of the data. Visualizing Toronto's...
With the full release of ComponentArt DataVisualization now in the hands of the public I thought I'd take a minute and talk about some of the features we've added in regards to Visual Studio Design-Time integration. Visual Studio 2010 comes with...
The usability and value of most modern dashboards becomes seriously questioned if the data shown is fixed, and the user does not have the ability to zoom in or drill-down into the data to a more detailed view. Implementing this functionality can sometimes...
WcfServiceDataProvider is a handy new control introduced to the Silverlight and WPF suite of controls in the 2010.1 release. The control is somewhat different from most of the other controls. It has no visual aspect to it (hence the pictureless blog post...