Practical C# Charts and Graphics [Paperback]

Jack Xu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2007 | ISBN-10: 097937250X | ISBN-13: 978-0979372506

The book "Practical C# Charts and Graphics - Advanced Chart and Graphics Programming for Real-World .NET Applications" privides all the tools you need to create professional C# chart and graphics applications For .NET developers, creating professional charts and graphics in your C# applications is now easier than ever before. Practical C# Charts and Graphics is the perfect guide to learning all the basics for creating your advanced chart and graphics applications in C#. The book clearly explains practical chart and graphics methods and their underlying algorithms. The book contains: - Overview of GDI+ graphics capabilities and mathematical basics of computer charting and graphics - Step-by-step procedures to create a variety of 2D and 3D charts and graphics with complete ready-to-run C# code for each application - Powerful 2D and 3D chart packages and user controls that can be directly used in your C# applications or can be easily modified to create your own sophisticated chart and graphics packages. - Detailed procedures to create C# spreadsheet-like chart and graphics applications - Introductions for how to use Microsoft's Excel charts in your C# applications

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From the Publisher

"Practical C# Charts and Graphics" is not just a book, but a powerful 2D and 3D chart and graphics package. You may find that some of the examples in this book can be immediately used in your real-world problems, and that some may give you inspiration to add advanced graphical and sophisticated chart capabilities to your .NET applications.

This book and and its sample code listings, which are available for download from our website at publishing.unicadinc.com, provide you with:

A complete, in-depth instruction to practical chart and graphics programming in visual C# and GDI+. After reading this book and running the example programs, you will be able to create various sophisticated charts and graphics in your C# applications.

Ready-to-run example programs that allow you to explore the chart and graphics techniques described in the book. You can use these examples to get a better understanding of how the chart and graphics algorithms work. You can also modify the code or add new features to them to form the basis of your own programs. Some of the example code listings provided with this book are already sophisticated chart and graphics packages, and can be directly used in your own real-world applications.

Many C# classes in the sample code listings that you will find useful in your chart and graphics programming. These classes contain matrix manipulation, coordinate transformation, color maps, 2D and 3D chart user controls, as well as the other useful utility classes. You can extract these classes and plug them into your applications.

A chapter that contains a detailed discussion on how to integrate Microsoft Excel chart functionality into C# applications. This chapter is designed specifically for readers who prefer not to create C# chart programs from scratch, and would like to take advantage of Microsoft Excel's wide selection of chart types.

Is This Book for You?

You don't have to be an experienced C# developer or expert to use this book. The author designed this book to be useful to people of all levels of C# programming experience. In fact, if you have some experience with programming languages other than C#, you will be able to sit down in front of your computer, start up Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and C#, follow the examples that are provided with this book, and quickly become familiar with C# graphics programming. For those of you who are already experienced C# developers, this book has a lot to offer you as well. There is much information in this book about graphics and chart programming that is not available in any other C# tutorial and reference book. In addition, most of the example programs provided with this book can be directly used in your real-world application development. This book will provide you with a level of detail, explanation, instruction, and sample program code that will enable you to do just about anything that is graphics and charts related using visual C#.

The majority of the example programs in this book can be routinely used by C# developers and technical professionals. Throughout this book, the author emphasizes the usefulness of C# chart and graphics programming to real-world applications. If you follow this book closely, you will be able to easily develop various practical graphics and chart applications from simple 2D x-y plots to sophisticated 4D slice graphs.

To view sample chapters of this book, please visit publisher's website at publishing.unicadinc.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 572 pages
• Publisher: UniCAD, Inc. (March 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097937250X
• ISBN-13: 978-0979372506
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > C#

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Resource, July 8, 2007

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This is, by far, the best C# graphics book I've read, and in this case, really used. Working code is the basis of the book, and this code is accompanied by excellent explanations. All the code in the book is available online. I'm using the book in graphics projects both at work and at school, and I'm delighted to see well-explained working code rather than rehashes of Help. It is rare to find such a practical, useful book. Many thanks to Dr. Xu.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Will get you plotting like a pro!, June 10, 2008

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Smertrios (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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The title says it all: this book is about teaching you how to do charting in C# and it does it very well. From 2D to 3D, most typical charts are covered. The math transforms and data-structures are gradually introduced to give you a fully working charting library that you'll know in and out. Very valuable.

Note: I initially had trouble finding the code for download. An email to the author quickly resolved the issue. Thanks for the support.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable Resource, April 17, 2008

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This review is from: Practical C# Charts and Graphics (Paperback)

This is a great resource. Like other have said, it fills in a blank space in NOT JUST the C# world, but programming in general. 3-D Charts are usually just sold by those who know how to make them - very little exists for those who want to know the best algorithms for making them. This book (and accompanying code) is a fairly comprehensive resource on efficient algorithms in that area.

The accompanying code (Chart3d / 2d lib) is very nice. There are a few dohs! in the Chart3Dlib that I've noticed, that are easily fixed (modifying the original data while performing graphing computations). Comments are present, and the code is well written and understandable.