Visual Studio and the .NET Framework have many improvements that greatly increase developer productivity. These new enhancements arm developers with powerful tools that will make a significant impact in the way Smart Client and Web applications are developed and maintained.

Chart FX 7 (sometimes referred to as Chart FX 7.0) is the newest addition to the Chart FX family of products, specifically built to integrate powerful data visualization and charting capabilities to your Visual Studio applications. Chart FX 7 is not merely a revised product but a complete redesign that will bring your .NET applications to a whole new level. It takes full advantage of Visual Studio and ASP.NET 2.0 specific features and functionality like out-of-band callbacks, smart tags, visualizers, themes, personalization and web parts to provide enhancements in areas like:

Chart FX’s core charting engine
Integration & design-time experience
Performance, run-time and deployment capabilities

As a developer, the first thing you will expect from a charting product is a powerful charting engine capable of adapting to the most demanding business situations. For over a decade, Chart FX has been deployed with many enterprise and commercial grade applications and the new Chart FX adds to the already rich functionality available in previous versions of the product.

Additions to the charting engine include, but are not limited to, a re-engineered API with hundreds of new properties and features like smart labeling and the standardized extensibility architecture. The extensibility architecture allows developers to quickly and easily stitch additional .NET assemblies that target functionality for vertical areas like financial, statistical, mapping, business intelligence and analytics, plus much more.

In addition to specific enhancements in the product’s core, we have invested a great deal of time and effort to make sure Chart FX provides a familiar experience in Visual Studio. This means, from installation to deployment, you can expect a rewarding and productive development experience while integrating the most powerful data visualization and charting engine into your Smart Client and ASP.NET applications. For example, our Smart Tag Wizard allows you to access the most powerful Chart FX features at design time without annoying pop-up dialogs or wizards that alienate Visual Studio’s development experience. We have also re-engineered and simplified the Chart FX properties list using Visual Studio inner extensibility mechanism, so you could find properties quickly and easily. Just like these, there are many other improvements that are geared to provide a seamless integration and an enjoyable development experience in Visual Studio.

The improvements in the performance and scalability of Chart FX will allow your applications to respond accordingly in intricate computing architectures. We have re-engineered important areas such as data population to allow the chart to process and repaint at blazing speeds; we’ve also made sure that it works seamlessly in web farms without complex installation or coding issues. Additionally, the redesigned user interface will allow end users to fully exploit the product’s most powerful features without additional intervention from the developer, plus a fully interactive DHTML rendering engine will allow end users to interact with charts in any browser on any platform, making your application reachable by a wider audience. Finally, with full support for web parts, you can integrate and deploy Chart FX 7 into other environments, such as a SharePoint Portal Server.

In conclusion, Chart FX not only brings a powerful, yet simple and most integrated data visualization solution for Visual Studio developers, but once again it raises the bar to a level that other data visualization components may be unable to meet. You be the judge! Try Chart FX with your Visual Studio and you won’t want to develop again without it.

We hope you enjoy Chart FX 7 as much as we enjoyed developing it for you!

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