To the woman I love...

Happy Birthday to my dear wife Sabrina!

New ASP.NET Charting Control:

Got to know this morning about charting controls that Microsoft is providing for asp.net 3.5, from here. Great! For sure they will provide great support and examples to cover most types of charts. Interestingly, these charting samples look inspiration from Dundas. Another news is that Microsoft is going to use Dundas (www.Dundas.com) in SQL Server 2008 reporting.

What other options do we have? Dundas, Infragistics...who wants to buy license? Go for OpenFlashChart. A free flash based charting tool with support on all platforms. I have used OFC in one of my projects and without much pain we got awesome results.

Alternative to Crystal Report?

A couple of days back, I faced a problem deploying my asp.net web application. The application uses Crystal Reports, and there is no support for Crystal Report at the hosting (Our hosting company does not provide Crystal reports anyway).

After finding around for some free reporting tools I found LogiReport (support?) and then I gave up. And finally thought to use Reports provided by .net (RDLC), after ignoring it for a long time. Who wants to buy Crystal Report redistributable license?

If you have been working with Crystal Reports, you will find it difficult to us! But it worths it.

So my answer to "Alternative to Crysal Reports" is "Reports provided by .net"

I am Back!

P.S.: Title says it all.