does visual studio 2008 professional have a built in graphing library?

Question

i am moving a vb6 application into c#

the vb6 app was using csXgraph graphing library. i have no clue how to access COM objects using c# and dont know if it is even the best idea to do it this way. so i would like to know whether visual studio already has some kind of built in graphing library that i can use with a sql server database handling the data.?

Answer 1

Do you mean to draw a chart of data on screen? Have you seen the .NET 4 (runs on 3.5 too if you install a GAC component) DataVisualization Library?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.datavisualization.charting.aspx

Answer 2

Visual Studio 2008 does not come with any built-in graphing libraries for you to use.

Luckily, .NET does make it very easy to use existing COM libraries via COM Interop.

If, after reading about COM Interop, you decide you don't want to deal with the hassle you could also try a third-party library like .NET Chart from ComponentXtra.

Answer 3

Not built in, but if you are looking to chart some data they do have a free charting control that handles a number of common charting needs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=130F7986-BF49-4FE5-9CA8-910AE6EA442C&displaylang=en1

Answer 4

Microsoft offers a free .Net charting library.

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