Archive For November 2008
Microsoft Chart Controls For ASP.NET
calendar_today 28 November 2008 13:38
Many times, I have seen questions about where to obtain Charting controls for ASP.NET web applications, and until recently, the answer has always been to have a look at many of the third party offers that are available from the leading control development companies. That is until Microsoft released their Chart Controls for both Windows Forms and ASP.NET to work with .Net 3.5 SP1.
iTextSharp - Page Layout with Columns
calendar_today 24 November 2008 07:41
I have now covered many of the basics involved in generating PDF files from ASP.NET using iTextSharp in the series of articles listed below. This article will look at additional ways to provide formatting to documents through the use of columns.
iTextSharp - Drawing shapes and Graphics
calendar_today 17 November 2008 12:30
The previous iTextSharp article looked at bringing images into a PDF file and working with them. Sometimes, however, you may want to draw shapes and lines within the PDF and not rely on images. iTextSharp includes a lot of functionality that covers simple drawing to quite complex shapes. This article gets you started. Previous articles are listed below:
iTextSharp - Working with images
calendar_today 07 November 2008 23:00
The seventh article in my iTextSharp series looks at working with images. This article builds on the previous six which are listed below.
iTextSharp - Introducing Tables
calendar_today 03 November 2008 07:34
Tables will probably be one of the most used elements in PDFs generated from ASP.NET applications to provide the structure for documents such as orders and invoices. This overview is not an exhaustive examination of tables, but provides an introduction to working with them through iTextSharp, and builds on the previous articles in this iTextSharp series: