ASP.NET

ASP.NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, and the next generation of ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft. It is a framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

The framework is brand new and unites the previously separate ASP.NET MVC and Web API into a single programming model. ASP.NET Core does have a high degree of concept compatibility with ASP.NET MVC.
 

In this blog entry, we demonstrate how to create a Sales Dashboard application for ASP.NET. The complete code is available for download at the bottom of the page.

The finished sample looks like this:

To start off, we create a new Visual Studio project for web. The web application needs to contain a single .aspx file, which will host the related controls. The second step is to include the .dll files for the chart components to the project:

If you are writing a custom control, you will most likely encounter the following problem – converting a property type at design time. The only way to achieve that is to use a custom type converter, as described here. In most cases the standard documentation will cover the basics. However there is a specific case in which the approach from the documentation will not work and you need to alter the String to Object custom converter logic.