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Introducing SmartChartPro
ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control
Display OrgCharts, SiteMaps, plus more
Output Images or HTML/CSS
Simple, Flexible and Efficient
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SmartChartPro Features
Bind Hierarchical Data
Drill-down into Data
Drag and Drop Items
Inline Data Editing
Support for ASP.NET Templates
Rich Event Model


Tech Blog and News


New SmartChartLite Control Released along with SmartChartPro 3.1
Smart Web Controls announces the immediate availability of the new SmartChartLite control as well as an update to the SmartChartPro control.

Pros and Cons of the Sprint Instinct Phone
There’s been a lot of hype over Apple’s new iPhone 3G coming out on July 11th as well as Sprint’s recently released Instinct phone.  I was originally going to switch over to AT&T and get the iPhone but it meant switching my wife over as well ... More

Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with a WCF Duplex Service – Part II
In Part 1 of this series on pushing data to a Silverlight client with a WCF polling duplex service I demonstrated how service contracts and operations can be defined on the server.  WCF has built-in support for duplex communication (two-way communication ... More

Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with a WCF Duplex Service - Part I
Silverlight provides several different ways to access data stored in remote locations.  Data can be pulled from Web Services and RESTful services and even pushed from servers down to clients using sockets (see my previous articles on sockets here, ... More

Creating a Silverlight 2 Client Access Policy Socket Server
Silverlight 2 provides built-in support for sockets which allows servers to push data to Silverlight clients.  By using this feature clients can avoid polling the server on a timed basis to ensure that clients are kept up-to-date.  If you're ... More

New Features in Silverlight 2 Beta 2
Bill Gates and S. Somasegar announced several new features at TechEd for Silverlight Beta 2 that are great additions to the existing functionality.  Here's a list of the highlights in Beta 2: UI Framework: Beta 2 includes improvements in animation ... More