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Templating columns for Essential Pack Grid

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:27:19 GMT

This article shows how to apply templates to the Essential Grid columns. For example, templated columns can be used for displaying data from a linked table, instead of data from the source-table... (Read more...)

New Essential Pack Pro for ASP.NET version: 1.10.0

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:08:18 GMT

We are glad to infrom you that we released the professional version of the ASP.NET RIA Essential Pack web controls. Essential Pack Pro improves the Silverlight-based versions of ASP.NET GridView and ASP.NET Chart. The professional controls, in contrast to Essential Pack Standard, unclude many new features like filtering, fixed columns, grouping of records, statistical grid row, and display styles. Please see here to know more about Essential Pack. Also you can try the controls live right now.

New Essential Pack for ASP.NET version: 1.10.0

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:38:41 GMT

New features:

Fields templating: For example, now you can bind fields, even if they are related to different data sources and display them in the Grid as an in-build combo box.
Changeable Grid appearance: now you can tune the visual style of any Grid element.

Also we're glad to infrom you that we released the professional version of the ASP.NET RIA Essential Pack web controls. The professional controls unclude many new features like filtering, fixed columns, grouping of records, and statistical grid row. Please see here to know more about Essential Pack. Also you can try the controls live right now.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.3

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:31:18 GMT

Bugs fixed:

The Total cells in the grid might be positioned incorrectly;
The hierarchy paging option might be not working or end up with an error;
When creating a new project with RadarCube ASP.NET Direct the following compilation error migh show up: RadarSoft.RadarCube.Web.TCubeMeasures must have items of type 'RadarSoft.RadarCube.Web.TCubeMeasure...' Read this article about how to deal with that error.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.2

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:42:37 GMT

New features:

The saved states of the OLAP Grid and OLAP Chart are now better synchronized. The information about the active measures is now restored too.

Bugs fixed:

HTML OLAP Grid for MSAS: The Cube Structure Tree is not changed when adding/deleting a calculated measure;
Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
An error on exporting RIA OLAP Grid into some formats;
RadarCube may not work in some DNN configurations.

Customizing RadarCube for ASP.NET

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:19:30 GMT

One of the essential issues that characterize any software is its customization ability, or, in other words, the means to adjust its settings for the needs of an end-user. This article discusses the general ways of customizing RadarCube for ASP.NET... (Read more...)

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.1

Fri, 22 May 2009 16:50:53 GMT

New features:

MSAS: Support of ROWSET actions added.

Bugs fixed:

Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
The Drillthrough operation may lead to an error when MemberIsNull is set;
Direct: The Cube Editor can "forget" the relations between tables;
RIAOLAPGrid might not work correctly in the mode of MDX queries.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.0

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:11:10 GMT

New features:

The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
RIA Grid: Filtering on the selected cell area.

Bugs fixed:

RIA Chart: Several bugs in displaying and zooming the Pie diagrams;
Some bugs on exporting of the big grids and on splitting the big export file at pages;
HTML OLAP Grid: Incorrect filtering on consequent applying of the members' filter and then the context filter via the hierarchy filter editor.

Hierarchy members' attributes

Fri, 08 May 2009 15:26:52 GMT

Attributes of hierarchy members allows displaying in the Grid additional information about them. This aricle shows how to use it... (Read more...)

New Essential Pack for ASP.NET version: 1.01.0

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:52:45 GMT

New features:

Grid: The page navigator supports several different display modes. New features allow navigating by clicking the buttons, which can be set a custom picture or text at that;
Chart: New diagram types: Area and Bubble. Unlike other diagram types, a point from the Bubble diagram can have three coordinates, which define the location and the size of the circle associated with the point.

Bugs fixed:

Grid: The data cells which contain images not always take the needed size. As an outcome, some images are not displayed correctly.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.12.0

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:24:48 GMT

New features:

Export of RIA OLAP Chart and RIA OLAP Grid to XPS format;
The Wizard of visual properties for RIA OLAP Chart and RIA OLAP Grid.

Bugs fixed:

Direct: When the controls are placed on a new form the assembly RadarSoft.RadarCube.Web is not registered in aspx-file. This may lead to the errors on the page compilation (Unknown server tag radarcube:...).

New Essential Pack for ASP.NET version: 1.00.0

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:26:22 GMT

We are glad to infrom you that we released new ASP.NET controls packed up into a single package named Essential Pack. Essential Pack includes the Silverlight-based versions of ASP.NET GridView and ASP.NET Chart. These controls are based on the RIA principle: they are usual ASP.NET controls in properties similar to GridView and Chart, but using the in-built Silverlight application for visualizing data in a user's browser. In comparison to their standard analogues, RIA controls have several advantages. Please see here to know more about Essential Pack. Also you can try the controls live right now.

Essential Pack will be distributed in two editions: FREEWARE edition that contains the Radar-Soft branding window with the reference to Radar-Soft and LICENSED edition that contains the full source code and has no branding window.

This BETA version is only available as a FREEWARE edition. Hope you'll like the new controls! Waiting for your comments on the product.

Initialization of the OLAP-slice view

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:37:33 GMT

Here is the description of the different ways of initial Grid and Chart loading, as well as the methods of program control over hierarchies and measures layout, drilling and cell sorting... (Read more...)

Styling RIA OLAP controls

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:32:13 GMT

ASP.NET RIA OLAP controls use Silverlight application as client side. It allows you to visualize OLAP data with maximal efficiency. Thus, RIA controls are much more flexible in setting the visual part of the OLAP-report. This article discusses the most effective ways to set the contorl's appearance... (Read more...)

Custom menus in RIA controls

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:06:03 GMT

In the RadarCube 2.02 version in RIA controls you are now able to edit the context menu of the Grid and Chart cells. You can do that by handling the OnShowContextMenu and OnContextMenuClick events of the RiaOLAPGrid or RiaOLAPChart controls... (Read more...)

Visual analysis with RadarCube OLAP Chart

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:58:42 GMT

There are two ways of presenting data: textual and graphical - both presenting data in the form of OLAP-slice that can be pivoted, drilled, filtered, sorted or grouped. In addition to that, the graphical OLAP has its unique technologies, such as visual analysis and comparison of measures; revealing interconnections between measures in consideration of influential factors; revealing clusters... (Read more...)

RIA OLAP Grid: Customizing Cells' Content

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:03:38 GMT

There are a few ways of arranging cell appearance to make the most of visual data presentation, including organizing and marking data in the cells, and bringing out any detailed information about any cell... (Read more...)

RadarCube for ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:02:47 GMT

We are glad to announce the new RELASE 2.0 of our new product RadarCube ASP.NET and the new product named RIA OLAP Chart. You can download the new release or try it online right now... (Read more...)

Migrate to RadarCube ASP.NET 2.0

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:27 GMT

Here is a list of steps you need to perform to Upgrade from RadarCube ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0 and then upgrade HTML OLAP Grid to RIA OLAP Grid... (Read more...)

What is RIA?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:26:01 GMT

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are the web applications that run in a web browser, and do not require software installation. They provide you a number of important advantages, including: rich UI, short response time, web-server relief, asynchronous interaction, network traffic reduction... (Read more...)

Why RadarCube ASP.NET RIA?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:20:44 GMT

The only OLAP Client that meets the RIA standards is developed to bring you the full range of Visual Analysis options. It is easy to develop, though in need, helps you keep in touch with providers... (Read more...)

Saving and Restoring RadarCube data

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:40 GMT

All RadarCube versions (WinForms, ASP.NET & VCL) share the same principle of saving its data that allows saving and later restoring of the Grid or the Chart state, including their current visual settings, as well as full Cube data (for Direct and Desktop versions only)... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: How to create the cube using IDataReader?

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:27:52 GMT

Creating the cube with IDataReader interface takes just a few easy steps: creating the data source for the cube, creating the cube and grid on the web page, constructing the cube, and providing the IDataReader interfaces. Note that with IDataReader the cube occupies much less memory. This method can be handy, if you can't open your data source in Design-time... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET for MS Analysis. Getting started

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:56:01 GMT

Here are the first steps you should take, when starting a new ASP.NET web application using RadarCube ASP.NET for MSAS component. .. (Read more...)

Creating Calculated Measures and Hierarchy Members with MDX

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:50:14 GMT

Starting with the ver. 1.40 RadarCube ASP.NET for MSAS it is possible, even for the end users, to create calculated measures and hierarchy members with MDX expressions through the toolbox and the appropriate items of the context menu. Here are the guidelines for end users and programmers... (Read more...)

Customizing the OLAP toolbox

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:07:00 GMT

Among the RadarCube components there's a Toolbox control that provides you an easy access to the most often-used functions. However, you can expand the functionality of this control either by overriding the on-click actions of the standard toolbox buttons or by adding new buttons to the Toolbox. .. (Read more...)

Customizing the pivot layout in the ASP.NET HTML OLAP Grid

Thu, 22 May 2008 09:12:09 GMT

Beginning with RadarCube ASP.NET Ver. 1.28/1.10 there appeared two new auxiliary controls - TCubeStructureTree and TPivotPanel - that allow a more flexible tuning of the pivot-panels layout: now you can amend the positional relationship of pivot-panels. Another benefit of using these components is the detailed tuning of the visual properties. .. (Read more...)

Customizing the ASP.NET HTML Grid contents

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:16:57 GMT

Any change of a Grid cell contents is done in the TOLAPGrid.OnRenderCell event handler that allows replacing the default contents of any cell with any HTML-code. There is a number of actions that you can perform, using this option, including: abridging text in the cell; formatting cells in the data area; placing images or HTML & ASP.NET server controls into a cell... (Read more...)

Context filtering with RadarCube (ASP.NET edtion)

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:16:28 GMT

Context filters are the conditions of making the selected current Cellset content visible. There are four types of the context filters available: member caption filters, date filters, measure value filters, and fact table value filters... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: How do I make the Cube work faster?

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:40:42 GMT

Too big amount of data to be loaded from the database, too slowly loaded or non-optimized data and the structure of cube hierarchies, may hinder the performance of your application. Here are a few steps you can try out to make your application work faster... (Read more...)

Calculated fields. Using TOLAPCube.OnCalculateFields event

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:55:53 GMT

It often happens that databases hold data in the format that is convenient for storing but not for a user. To let data easily convert from one format to another the TOLAPCube supports calculated fields. A calculated field is the one whose value is comprised from other fields' values of the same or some other related table... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: Creating the Cube in run time

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:46:49 GMT

It not a rare case when we need to create the Cube in run time rather than in design time. There are two ways to do that: the simplest way would be to create the Cube and Grid objects in design time, however, both Cube and Grid can be created in run time. Moreover, these methods can be easily combined... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct. Getting started

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:03:34 GMT

Here's a short guide how to start a new ASP.NET web application using RadarCube ASP.NET Direct components. Your first steps will include preparing a data source and constructing the Cube with the "Cube Editor"... (Read more...)

How do I use the OnDrillthrough event of the ASP.NET TOLAPGrid component?

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:13:12 GMT

Here is the common scenario of using this event... (Read more...)

Types of dimensions

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:23:48 GMT

Types of dimensions... (Read more...)

License types for ASP.NET and Windows Forms products

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:29:05 GMT

Depending on your purposes of using our product, there are different types of licenses for you to choose from... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: Creating the data source

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:49:19 GMT

Before defining the Cube structure in Cube Editor, you must connect the Cube to a data source, that is you assign a value to its DataSource property. Once you do that, you can open the Cube Editor to construct your Cube. You don't have to fill the tables with data yourself - the Cube will do it for you. .. (Read more...)

Star schema

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:41:44 GMT

The star schema is the simplest data warehouse schema. Its main advantages are: direct and intuitive mapping between business entities analyzed by end users and the schema design, and highly optimized performance for typical data warehouse queries... (Read more...)

Snowflake schema

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:39:13 GMT

The snowflake schema of organizing data is more complex in comparison to a simple star schema. Graphical representation of the schema resembles a snowflake, hence the name. Snowflake schemas normalize dimensions to eliminate redundancy... (Read more...)

Locating a hierarchy member

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:15:11 GMT

All operations, fulfilled in the RadarCube library, deal with hierarchy members represented by the TMember objects. Thus, locating a hierarchy member is one of the important tasks for a programmer... (Read more...)

Are there any security mechanisms in RadarCube like those realized in MS Analysis?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:12:58 GMT

RadarCube CONTAINS NO nested resources for restricting user's access to the Microsoft Analysis 2005 Cube data (exceptiong subselects, of course), since the task has been already solved by the developers of that OLAP-server. But our main aim was to create a web-application where each of Internet-user could view the MS AS Cube data by using an independent kit of access rights... (Read more...)

Does the RadarCube ASP.NET control have the ability to customize color schemes?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:06:09 GMT

Yes, surely. Here is how you can do that... (Read more...)

How do I use RadarCube in a web-part?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:56:16 GMT

With RadarCube you can: use it in the WebParts mode, change the TOLAPGrid.Description and TOLAPGrid.Title properties to tune the WebPart interface, and add extra items to the WebPart menu... (Read more...)

How to localize RadarCube (WindowsForms and ASP.NET)

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:52:34 GMT

It's easy to localize RadarCube through the Internet... (Read more...)