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We are looking forward to a short visit by John Marsh and his wife Liz from Brighton in early November. They are on a round-the-world trip and are stopping by Seattle for a few days.
John was a cofounder of Bits Per Second and wrote most of the VBX/OCX code for Graphics Server back in the 90s. He played a signifiant role in the deal that saw Graphics Server OEMed to Microsoft for inclusion in Visual Basic Professional way back when.
We are happy to work with .NET user groups (INETA, others) to provide copies of Graphics Server .NET or Graphics Server .NET: Widgets Edition for reviews and prizes. Just give me a shout...
We released a new version of Graphics Server .NET yesterday. Version 2.5 adds Widgets and Designers and is available free to GS .NET 2.0 licenses.
We also released a Widgets Edition that contains only the Widgets (no standard charts or graphs) for just $299. This version works with both win forms and web forms and comes prepopulated with lots of sample widgets ready to use. You can modify them to your exact needs or create your own.
Check out our new .NET Widgets in either Graphics Server .NET 2.5 or in the Widgets Edition.
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Nice to see that blog entries can, in fact, impact people half way around the world. This from a blogger, Ian, in the U.K.:
It never fails to amaze me how many .NET/COM charting components are available - it must be a very crowded, or very lucrative, marketplace. Possibly both, given the prices at which these things sell. I had half-expected VS2005 to include a built-in charting component - after all, it includes Treeview, SiteMapPath and Menu controls, similar ideas to which have all been available from third parties in the past.Anyway, just when I thought I had used or trialled every charting component in the known universe, Scoble brought my attention to yet another - Graphics Server .NET. These guys aren't marketing themselves aggressively enough, which is unfortunate as this is by far the most pleasant component I've used for a long time - dragging the individual elements of a chart into place is so much better than having to rely on trial and error as you set and reset layout properties until they're pixel perfect.
Thanks Ian!
