What are Chart FX Extensions?
There are multitudes of charts available for displaying the multitude of complex data available in today’s applications – each one addressing a unique need. While Chart FX tries to address each of these needs by providing a multitude of galleries within the core product, there are some charts and needs that are specific to special markets such as financial charts for financial markets as well as real time charts for on demand applications.
In order to address the special markets and needs, Chart FX introduces the notion of Chart FX Extensions. With extensions, Chart FX is able to address the needs of specific markets in detail without interfering or bloating the core Chart FX product used by many. This section introduces the various extensions available for Chart FX.
Chart FX OLAP is the most powerful, yet easy to integrate, .NET front-end OLAP available. Chart FX OLAP seamlessly integrates to Visual Studio .NET and provides the most advanced and intuitive user interface specifically built for OLAP pivoting, slicing and drilldown. Chart FX for OLAP supports ADO-MD and XML for Analysis for integration with major leading OLAP server vendors like Microsoft SQL Server® and Hyperion Essbase®.
Chart FX Maps provides a full library of dynamic maps that you can integrate with Chart FX to display any type of data graphically through the objects in a map. Chart FX Maps not only offers a comprehensive library of maps, but it also allows the developer to add their own maps through the universal SVG standard.
The Chart FX Statistical Extension extends the power of Chart FX by adding statistical analysis capabilities to your charting applications. Chart FX Statistical seamlessly integrates to Visual Studio .NET, providing additional chart types, a myriad of pre-defined statistical studies, new classes for statistical calculations and much more.
The Chart FX Financial Extension adds financial analytical tools to Chart FX, allowing programmers and developers integrate powerful financial charts to their client server and web applications quickly and easily. This product has been designed to provide a vast variety of predefined financial indicators and special chart types to perform Technical Analysis on stock market data and information.
Chart FX Real-Time is a complete software solution that allows developers to build modern, scalable, multitier real-time Internet applications using Microsoft technologies like Internet Information Server, COM, and Internet Explorer.
The Chart FX Wireless Extension allows developers to create wireless applications in a minimal amount of time without the need of intensive programming knowledge. With an easy-to-use, flowchart-style interface, a developer can easily create an application's logic, connect with any database and then automatically generate server and client-side code.
Chart FX Extensions Frequently Asked Questions
How do Chart FX extensions work?
Our developers have spent a great deal of time designing Chart FX around an open and adaptable architecture. Chart FX Extensions take advantage of this open and adaptable architecture and work with the core Chart FX products to extend their capabilities or to provide a specific functionality.
Why aren't the free Chart FX extensions included as part of the core products?
Many new features are indeed included in the product itself. However, if the functionality is big enough to where it might cause stability problems in a released product, our developers preference is to create an extension an isolate this functionality in a different assembly until it can be part of a major release or keep it that way, permanently, for performance reasons.
Why are some extensions free and some aren't?
There are essentially two types of extensions: extensions that complement core products and extension that create new products. Extensions that complement core products are usually free, since they provide a functionality that we feel will benefit most Chart FX users. On the other hand, extensions that create new products, although not free, provide a cost effective method of adding specific functionality to the core products without the need of purchasing a full-blown, fully priced product, to provide such features.
How can I try an extension if I don't own a core Chart FX product yet?
In order to install a Chart FX extension, you must have a core Chart FX product installed. If you want to install a 30 day trial of an extension, but you don't own a core Chart FX product, you will need to download and install a 30 day trial of the core product first, then you may install the extension trial.