Enterprise Curl

Introduction

An important feature of most business applications is the ability to display summary data graphically. This chapter will illustrate how we can satisfy such a requirement within the enterprise framework by developing a 2D bar chart module. We will continue using some of the framework classes built in Chapter 16, when we discussed the 2D pie chart module, and will create new classes to provide the functionality to display data in a bar chart format. In this chapter, we will investigate the following:

• Creating a class that represents a single bar item

• Consolidating a number of bars into a master class that will display them together on a report

• Adding and controlling the format of labels for a bar

• Using the built-in Curl system drawing ...