ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Drill-Down Reports

Those of us who have created reports for business stakeholders and customers alike know that rendering the chart is merely the tip of the iceberg. People want to know where the data came from and want their charts to be interactive.

Again, this is where we typically end up spending large amounts of money for complicated third-party vendor control suites that enable for the injection of code to enable for drill-downs and clickable charts. As we’ve seen throughout this chapter, ASP.NET Chart Control actually builds images rendered in-place on the page. If this is the case, then how can we create clickable data points?

One of the most powerful features within ASP.NET Chart Control is that we can assign a value to the Url property ...