.NET applications that are used to collect business data often present the data in difficult-to-understand tabular or text formats. These formats are sometimes not accessible in a context that promotes understanding.

Microsoft Research is busy creating solutions like Visualization Components for Displaying Data in .NET Applications . These technologies can display information graphically, providing structured, multidimensional business information that is easier to read, interpret, and translate into actionable insight.

Better yet, development teams can easily license these technologies from Microsoft in a few simple steps.

With Visualization Components for Displaying Data in .NET Applications, users can easily analyze related sets of data in a unified manner.

Here's one example of the technologies below, and click here to learn more.

Bubble Chart
A bubble chart is a set of points displayed as bubbles in an x-y coordinate system. You can control the position of each bubble, its size relative to the other bubbles, and its color. The chart displays optional numerical scale markings along with axis labels and gridlines. Here is a sample bubble chart:

BubbleChartGenerator is a drawing engine without its own user interface. It takes a set of bubble data, generates a bubble chart from the data, and draws it onto a bitmap or Graphics object provided by the caller. It can be used in a variety of environments, including Web applications that generate images on the server for downloading to client browsers.

The BubbleChartControl wraps the BubbleChartGenerator into a Windows Forms control. It can be added to the Microsoft Visual Studio toolbox and dropped into any Windows Forms application. A bubble can be selected with the mouse. Events identifying the selected bubble are fired.

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