Two questions about charts

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Marco Trapanese

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
 
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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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/library/aa289492(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/net/index.aspx?campaign=msdn

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

Regards,

Joergen Bech
 
Joergen Bech said:
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/library/aa289492(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/net/index.aspx?campaign=msdn
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Thanks for the links. I saved the second one for future updates.

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

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

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.
 
Dick said:
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.
Click to expand...


Thanks to you too for the link!

Marco / iw2nzm
 
Marco said:
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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Have a look at nplot ... it's also pretty good, especially for financial
type charts
 
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