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Templating columns for Essential Pack Grid

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:27:19 GMT

This article shows how to apply templates to the Essential Grid columns. For example, templated columns can be used for displaying data from a linked table, instead of data from the source-table... (Read more...)

New RadarCube VCL version: 1.12.0

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:07:17 GMT

New features:

Desktop: The Drillthrough method for OLAP cube has been added.

Bugs fixed:

In the event SetEditText, the EventArgs.Cell argument is always null;
In the Cube Editor a toolbar button click might cause the error;
In the Cube Editor's toolbar the buttons might not be blocked correctly;
A hierarchy icon is not changed on changing the hierarchy type.

New Essential Pack Pro for ASP.NET version: 1.10.0

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:08:18 GMT

We are glad to infrom you that we released the professional version of the ASP.NET RIA Essential Pack web controls. Essential Pack Pro improves the Silverlight-based versions of ASP.NET GridView and ASP.NET Chart. The professional controls, in contrast to Essential Pack Standard, unclude many new features like filtering, fixed columns, grouping of records, statistical grid row, and display styles. Please see here to know more about Essential Pack. Also you can try the controls live right now.

New Essential Pack for ASP.NET version: 1.10.0

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:38:41 GMT

New features:

Fields templating: For example, now you can bind fields, even if they are related to different data sources and display them in the Grid as an in-build combo box.
Changeable Grid appearance: now you can tune the visual style of any Grid element.

Also we're glad to infrom you that we released the professional version of the ASP.NET RIA Essential Pack web controls. The professional controls unclude many new features like filtering, fixed columns, grouping of records, and statistical grid row. Please see here to know more about Essential Pack. Also you can try the controls live right now.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.3

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:31:18 GMT

Bugs fixed:

The Total cells in the grid might be positioned incorrectly;
The hierarchy paging option might be not working or end up with an error;
When creating a new project with RadarCube ASP.NET Direct the following compilation error migh show up: RadarSoft.RadarCube.Web.TCubeMeasures must have items of type 'RadarSoft.RadarCube.Web.TCubeMeasure...' Read this article about how to deal with that error.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.10.1

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:59:34 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
The visibility state of the chid members in a hierarchy editor may get lost on paging;
Sometimes the modes of auto sizing can't be cancelled;

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.10.1

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:58:07 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
The visibility state of the chid members in a hierarchy editor may get lost on paging;
Sometimes the modes of auto sizing can't be cancelled;
When reading a ParentChild hierarchy a null reference error may occur;
If a hierarchy key field points to the field holding null values the null reference error may occur.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.2

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:42:37 GMT

New features:

The saved states of the OLAP Grid and OLAP Chart are now better synchronized. The information about the active measures is now restored too.

Bugs fixed:

HTML OLAP Grid for MSAS: The Cube Structure Tree is not changed when adding/deleting a calculated measure;
Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
An error on exporting RIA OLAP Grid into some formats;
RadarCube may not work in some DNN configurations.

Customizing RadarCube for ASP.NET

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:19:30 GMT

One of the essential issues that characterize any software is its customization ability, or, in other words, the means to adjust its settings for the needs of an end-user. This article discusses the general ways of customizing RadarCube for ASP.NET... (Read more...)

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.1

Fri, 22 May 2009 16:50:53 GMT

New features:

MSAS: Support of ROWSET actions added.

Bugs fixed:

Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
The Drillthrough operation may lead to an error when MemberIsNull is set;
Direct: The Cube Editor can "forget" the relations between tables;
RIAOLAPGrid might not work correctly in the mode of MDX queries.

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.10.0

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:27:54 GMT

New features:

The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
The conext menu for a cell now contains the command copying the cell's text;
The tuning dialog window of Export and Print commands can now be localized;
On long operations the screen cursor is now changed.

Bugs fixed:

Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
The Cube Editor can "forget" the relations between tables;
Sometimes the double click restoring the column width leads to the strange location of columns;
When there is a lot of cells in the grid the pictures and text in the cells can be displayed incorrectly.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.10.0

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:26:37 GMT

New features:

The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
Support of ROWSET actions added;
The conext menu for a cell now contains the command copying the cell's text;
The tuning dialog window of Export and Print commands can now be localized;
On long operations the screen cursor is now changed.

Bugs fixed:

Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
The Drillthrough operation may lead to an error when MemberIsNull is set;
Sometimes the double click restoring the column width leads to the strange location of columns;
When there is a lot of cells in the grid the pictures and text in the cells can be displayed incorrectly.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.20.0

Fri, 08 May 2009 16:11:10 GMT

New features:

The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
RIA Grid: Filtering on the selected cell area.

Bugs fixed:

RIA Chart: Several bugs in displaying and zooming the Pie diagrams;
Some bugs on exporting of the big grids and on splitting the big export file at pages;
HTML OLAP Grid: Incorrect filtering on consequent applying of the members' filter and then the context filter via the hierarchy filter editor.

Hierarchy members' attributes

Fri, 08 May 2009 15:26:52 GMT

Attributes of hierarchy members allows displaying in the Grid additional information about them. This aricle shows how to use it... (Read more...)

New HierCube VCL version: 4.51.0

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:47:39 GMT

New features:

On changing the column width for a summary when Ctrl key is pressed, all corresponding columns for that summary change their width in the same way;
A grid with huge number of cells is now rendered faster.

Bugs fixed:

When changing a column width the row height is changed in a wrong way;
When calling on a context menu of a row/column an error may appear;
In Delphi 2007, 2009 when moving a mouse over the grid the scrollbar is flickering;
When calling on a "Drill into data cell" function in a cell context menu in Delphi 2009 an error may appear.

New Essential Pack for ASP.NET version: 1.01.0

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:52:45 GMT

New features:

Grid: The page navigator supports several different display modes. New features allow navigating by clicking the buttons, which can be set a custom picture or text at that;
Chart: New diagram types: Area and Bubble. Unlike other diagram types, a point from the Bubble diagram can have three coordinates, which define the location and the size of the circle associated with the point.

Bugs fixed:

Grid: The data cells which contain images not always take the needed size. As an outcome, some images are not displayed correctly.

New RadarCube VCL version: 1.11.1

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:54:16 GMT

Bugs fixed:

When loading the grid from a file there might be a "general array error";
When deleting a grid out of a form the error may come up;
After changing the tabs in the Cube Editor, the cube structure tree might get unmatched with the corresponding hierarchy objects;
When adding a dimension there might be an error;
In Delphi 2007, 2009 the scrollbar and other areas of the grid might be flickering on mouse move.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.12.0

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:24:48 GMT

New features:

Export of RIA OLAP Chart and RIA OLAP Grid to XPS format;
The Wizard of visual properties for RIA OLAP Chart and RIA OLAP Grid.

Bugs fixed:

Direct: When the controls are placed on a new form the assembly RadarSoft.RadarCube.Web is not registered in aspx-file. This may lead to the errors on the page compilation (Unknown server tag radarcube:...).

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.03.0

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:43:15 GMT

New features:

New events TOLAPGrid.MouseDoubleClick and DoubleClick;
OLAP Chart: Now the OnCalcMember event is fired for calculated measures;
New property public TSkinType TOLAPControlGeneral.Skin defines the look and feel of the Grid and Chart. This property has only been available in Designer.

Bugs fixed:

The hierarchies that are fully filtered are not displayed in the Filter area;
OLAP Chart: If moving a hierarchy, which is already in the Modifiers area, out to the tree, the corresponding filters are reset;
The members of ParentChild hierarchies are created in a wrong way using the unique key IDField and duplicate DisplayField properties;
In the hierarchy editor the relation between the tree item and the table may get lost, if the object's DiplayField property is set and IDField is not set;
When opening the cube in run time there may be an error because of the missing initialization.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.03.0

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:42:30 GMT

New features:

New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time;
New events TOLAPGrid.MouseDoubleClick and DoubleClick;
OLAP Chart: Now the OnCalcMember event is fired for calculated measures;
New property public TSkinType TOLAPControlGeneral.Skin defines the look and feel of the Grid and Chart. This property has only been available in Designer.

Bugs fixed:

The hierarchies that are fully filtered are not displayed in the Filter area;
OLAP Chart: If moving a hierarchy, which is already in the Modifiers area, out to the tree, the corresponding filters are reset;
The members of ParentChild hierarchies are created in a wrong way using the unique key IDField and duplicate DisplayField properties;
In the hierarchy editor the relation between the tree item and the table may get lost, if the object?s DiplayField property is set and IDField is not set;
When opening the cube in run time there may be an error because of the missing initialization.

New Essential Pack for ASP.NET version: 1.00.0

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:26:22 GMT

We are glad to infrom you that we released new ASP.NET controls packed up into a single package named Essential Pack. Essential Pack includes the Silverlight-based versions of ASP.NET GridView and ASP.NET Chart. These controls are based on the RIA principle: they are usual ASP.NET controls in properties similar to GridView and Chart, but using the in-built Silverlight application for visualizing data in a user's browser. In comparison to their standard analogues, RIA controls have several advantages. Please see here to know more about Essential Pack. Also you can try the controls live right now.

Essential Pack will be distributed in two editions: FREEWARE edition that contains the Radar-Soft branding window with the reference to Radar-Soft and LICENSED edition that contains the full source code and has no branding window.

This BETA version is only available as a FREEWARE edition. Hope you'll like the new controls! Waiting for your comments on the product.

New HierCube VCL version: 4.50.0

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:16:20 GMT

New features:

Delphi 2009 support
Some minor changes in the chart.

Bugs fixed:

The null values in the chart can be displayed like any random value that leads to the redundant nodes in the chart.

New RadarCube VCL version: 1.11.0

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:29:11 GMT

New features:

The data source support is now more stable.
Delphi 2009 support.

Bugs fixed:

If the data source is changed in the active cube then the exception occurs.
Loading the grid from a stream can lead to the error.
The error occurs when running a form with a cube that has been set to Active in design time.

Initialization of the OLAP-slice view

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:37:33 GMT

Here is the description of the different ways of initial Grid and Chart loading, as well as the methods of program control over hierarchies and measures layout, drilling and cell sorting... (Read more...)

Styling RIA OLAP controls

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:32:13 GMT

ASP.NET RIA OLAP controls use Silverlight application as client side. It allows you to visualize OLAP data with maximal efficiency. Thus, RIA controls are much more flexible in setting the visual part of the OLAP-report. This article discusses the most effective ways to set the contorl's appearance... (Read more...)

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.02.2

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:26:15 GMT

New features:

New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time.

Bugs fixed:

The Cube Editor error fixed: the fields are distinguished by IDField property now instead of DisplayField.
In the Filter Editor the context menu sometimes is not completed.
When the conditional formatting is on there might be errors on selecting the grid cells.
When placing the grid down on a form in Design Time, the color scheme of the pivot panels might be wrong.
TOlapGrid control doesn't handle the mouse events.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.02.2

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:22:51 GMT

New features:

New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time.

Bugs fixed:

The Cube Editor error fixed: the fields are distinguished by IDField property now instead of DisplayField.
In the Filter Editor the context menu sometimes is not completed.
When the conditional formatting is on there might be errors on selecting the grid cells.
When placing the grid down on a form in Design Time, the color scheme of the pivot panels might be wrong.
TOlapGrid control doesn't handle the mouse events.

Custom menus in RIA controls

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:06:03 GMT

In the RadarCube 2.02 version in RIA controls you are now able to edit the context menu of the Grid and Chart cells. You can do that by handling the OnShowContextMenu and OnContextMenuClick events of the RiaOLAPGrid or RiaOLAPChart controls... (Read more...)

TOLAPExport control FAQ

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:17:29 GMT

Operating TOLAP Export provides you with a number of opportunities, such as: set and amend the visual properties, use either stand-alone or in-built component, change column width, export to different formats, or print out the data. Here are the guidelines for using the whole range of them... (Read more...)

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.02.1

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:55:17 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Memory leaks.
On export to PDF some errors are possible.
When opening a form with components RadarCube Windows Forms of versions 1.x a huge amount of errors is possible in the *.Designer.cs file like "Error 1124 The type or namespace name 'RadarSoft.WinForms.*' could not be found"
For some series the non-linear trend can be draw incorrectly.
Some minor downsides

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.02.1

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:53:50 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Memory leaks.
On export to PDF some errors are possible.
When opening a form with components RadarCube Windows Forms of versions 1.x a huge amount of errors is possible in the *.Designer.cs file like "Error 1124 The type or namespace name 'RadarSoft.WinForms.*' could not be found"
For some series the non-linear trend can be draw incorrectly.
Some minor downsides

Visual analysis with RadarCube OLAP Chart

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:58:42 GMT

There are two ways of presenting data: textual and graphical - both presenting data in the form of OLAP-slice that can be pivoted, drilled, filtered, sorted or grouped. In addition to that, the graphical OLAP has its unique technologies, such as visual analysis and comparison of measures; revealing interconnections between measures in consideration of influential factors; revealing clusters... (Read more...)

RIA OLAP Grid: Customizing Cells' Content

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:03:38 GMT

There are a few ways of arranging cell appearance to make the most of visual data presentation, including organizing and marking data in the cells, and bringing out any detailed information about any cell... (Read more...)

Managing the Properties of the TToolbox Panel

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:13:06 GMT

Toolbox is a tool panel with buttons and menu for quick access to the basic options of RadarCube controls. Using some properties of the Toolbox panel allows you to use different toolboxes in or outside the Grid, add or remove buttons and manage their properties... (Read more...)

RadarCube for ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:02:47 GMT

We are glad to announce the new RELASE 2.0 of our new product RadarCube ASP.NET and the new product named RIA OLAP Chart. You can download the new release or try it online right now... (Read more...)

Migrate to RadarCube ASP.NET 2.0

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:27 GMT

Here is a list of steps you need to perform to Upgrade from RadarCube ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0 and then upgrade HTML OLAP Grid to RIA OLAP Grid... (Read more...)

What is RIA?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:26:01 GMT

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are the web applications that run in a web browser, and do not require software installation. They provide you a number of important advantages, including: rich UI, short response time, web-server relief, asynchronous interaction, network traffic reduction... (Read more...)

Why RadarCube ASP.NET RIA?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:20:44 GMT

The only OLAP Client that meets the RIA standards is developed to bring you the full range of Visual Analysis options. It is easy to develop, though in need, helps you keep in touch with providers... (Read more...)

New WinForms Chart version: 1.00.1

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:37:57 GMT

New features:

Data binding in Design-Time.
The concept of layers that allows combining different chart types (Bar, Line, Point) in the same chart area. The number of layers is unlimited.
The dialog window for setting Chart appearance in Run-Time.
The Getting Started article has been updated.

New RadarCube VCL version: 1.10.1

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:04:49 GMT

New features:

The cube editor usability has been improved.
Documentation has been updated.

Bugs fixed:

If the cube schema only contains a single fact table then the exception "There is no source table defined for the "%s" measure" may sometimes occur.
Some data types are not accepted when trying to build a measure from them.
In the demo application some operations lead to the "access violation" exception.
The cube editor minor bugs.

Chart for Windows Forms. Getting Started

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:29:07 GMT

Here we discuss the elemental issues of operating 2D Charts of different types, including: Design-Time and Run-Time data binding; retrieving data from various sources; program data filling; chart elements; appearance settings; exporting and printing out... (Read more...)

Trend lines in OLAP Chart

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:46:42 GMT

Analyzing trend lines is a great way to reveal the tendency of time series changes. Here we discuss all kinds of operations with trade lines available in the TOLAPChart, including adding and removing trend lines, changing their type and color... (Read more...)

Saving and Restoring RadarCube data

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:51:40 GMT

All RadarCube versions (WinForms, ASP.NET & VCL) share the same principle of saving its data that allows saving and later restoring of the Grid or the Chart state, including their current visual settings, as well as full Cube data (for Direct and Desktop versions only)... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: How to create the cube using IDataReader?

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:27:52 GMT

Creating the cube with IDataReader interface takes just a few easy steps: creating the data source for the cube, creating the cube and grid on the web page, constructing the cube, and providing the IDataReader interfaces. Note that with IDataReader the cube occupies much less memory. This method can be handy, if you can't open your data source in Design-time... (Read more...)

OLAP Grid User's guide

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:44:57 GMT

TOLAPGrid is a component that retrieves data from multidimensional cubes, converts it to OLAP-slice and presents it as a table. Here are the guidelines for operating the component... (Read more...)

OLAP Chart User's guide

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:34:02 GMT

TOLAPChart is a component that retrieves data from multidimensional cubes, converts it to OLAP-slice and presents it as a chart for visual analysis. Here are the guidelines for operating the component... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET for MS Analysis. Getting started

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:56:01 GMT

Here are the first steps you should take, when starting a new ASP.NET web application using RadarCube ASP.NET for MSAS component. .. (Read more...)

Creating Calculated Measures and Hierarchy Members with MDX

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:50:14 GMT

Starting with the ver. 1.40 RadarCube ASP.NET for MSAS it is possible, even for the end users, to create calculated measures and hierarchy members with MDX expressions through the toolbox and the appropriate items of the context menu. Here are the guidelines for end users and programmers... (Read more...)

Customizing the OLAP toolbox

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:07:00 GMT

Among the RadarCube components there's a Toolbox control that provides you an easy access to the most often-used functions. However, you can expand the functionality of this control either by overriding the on-click actions of the standard toolbox buttons or by adding new buttons to the Toolbox. .. (Read more...)

New RadarCube VCL version: 1.10.0

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New features:

The cube working speed has been boosted due to the significant core optimization.
New RadarCube context filtering abilities. Please see thefollowing articlefor details.
The overall API has been made as close to RadarCube Windows Forms as possible.
The custom measure modes can now be sorted by values. But this improvement caused the changing the signature of TOLAPGrid.OnShowMeasure event handler.See herefor the details.
The declaration of TCalcMemberArgs object has changed, which is passed in TOLAPGrid.OnCalcMember event handler as a parameter. Now there are two properties ReturnData and ReturnValue, containing formatted and not formatted values of the cell to calculate.
New object property TOLAPGrid.Serializer. Compatibility of the grid state streams with the NET version of RadarCube.
Two new measure display modes: the "Rank by row" and "Rank by column".
Desktop: The internal database is now stored on the disk instead of memory. This can significantly boost the performance on the big databases because of lack of windows swapping.
Desktop: new Cube Editor.
Desktop: The Load and Save methods have been changed to provide more flexible saving. The streams of the early versions won't be read because of that fact.

Customizing the pivot layout in the ASP.NET HTML OLAP Grid

Thu, 22 May 2008 09:12:09 GMT

Beginning with RadarCube ASP.NET Ver. 1.28/1.10 there appeared two new auxiliary controls - TCubeStructureTree and TPivotPanel - that allow a more flexible tuning of the pivot-panels layout: now you can amend the positional relationship of pivot-panels. Another benefit of using these components is the detailed tuning of the visual properties. .. (Read more...)

Customizing the ASP.NET HTML Grid contents

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:16:57 GMT

Any change of a Grid cell contents is done in the TOLAPGrid.OnRenderCell event handler that allows replacing the default contents of any cell with any HTML-code. There is a number of actions that you can perform, using this option, including: abridging text in the cell; formatting cells in the data area; placing images or HTML & ASP.NET server controls into a cell... (Read more...)

Context filtering with RadarCube (ASP.NET edtion)

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:16:28 GMT

Context filters are the conditions of making the selected current Cellset content visible. There are four types of the context filters available: member caption filters, date filters, measure value filters, and fact table value filters... (Read more...)

Context filtering with RadarCube (WinForms edition)

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:28:20 GMT

Context filters are the conditions of making the selected current Cellset content visible. There are three types of the context filters available: member caption filters, date filters, and measure value filters... (Read more...)

RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop: How to make the cube work faster?

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:30:52 GMT

Too big amount of data to be loaded from the database, too slowly loaded or non-optimized data and the structure of cube hierarchies, may hinder the performance of your application. Here are a few steps you can try out to make your application work faster... (Read more...)

RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop: Creating the data source

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:36:17 GMT

Before defining the Cube structure in Cube Editor, you must connect the Cube to a data source, that is you assign a value to its DataSource property. Once you do that, you can open the Cube Editor to construct your Cube. You don't have to fill the tables with data yourself - the Cube will do it for you. .. (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: How do I make the Cube work faster?

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:40:42 GMT

New HierCube VCL version: 4.49

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

New features:

Delphi 2007 support.
Documentation updated.

Bugs fixed:

Sometimes direct export to XLS files produces wrong file format, so that it cannot be opened by Excel. This especially occurs when there are many columns in the grid.
When the cube raises the "There's no connection to database" exception, it hides the original exception, that may be useful to find out the reason.

Calculated fields. Using TOLAPCube.OnCalculateFields event

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:55:53 GMT

It often happens that databases hold data in the format that is convenient for storing but not for a user. To let data easily convert from one format to another the TOLAPCube supports calculated fields. A calculated field is the one whose value is comprised from other fields' values of the same or some other related table... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: Creating the Cube in run time

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:46:49 GMT

It not a rare case when we need to create the Cube in run time rather than in design time. There are two ways to do that: the simplest way would be to create the Cube and Grid objects in design time, however, both Cube and Grid can be created in run time. Moreover, these methods can be easily combined... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct. Getting started

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:03:34 GMT

Here's a short guide how to start a new ASP.NET web application using RadarCube ASP.NET Direct components. Your first steps will include preparing a data source and constructing the Cube with the "Cube Editor"... (Read more...)

How do I use the OnDrillthrough event of the ASP.NET TOLAPGrid component?

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:13:12 GMT

Here is the common scenario of using this event... (Read more...)

How to localize HierCube VCL

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:19:42 GMT

Here is an easy way to localize your HierCube library... (Read more...)

RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop. Getting started

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:21:41 GMT

Here is a short guide how to start a new Windows Forms application using RadarCube WinForms Desktop components from preparing the data source to constructing the Cube... (Read more...)

Types of dimensions

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:23:48 GMT

Types of dimensions... (Read more...)

License types for ASP.NET and Windows Forms products

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:29:05 GMT

Depending on your purposes of using our product, there are different types of licenses for you to choose from... (Read more...)

HierCube VCL vs. RadarCube VCL

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:26:34 GMT

HierCube VCL and RadarCube VCL are very similar products intended for the same purposes. However, they differ in terms of functionality. Although that of HierCube is somewhat limited in comparison to RadarCube's, the former still is a low-price, but effective way to bring OLAP functionality into your applications, while the latter brings you the full range of options for data analysis... (Read more...)

RadarCube ASP.NET Direct: Creating the data source

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:49:19 GMT

Using RadarCube as a data source for Data-related components

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:46:26 GMT

TOLAPGrid as a component for displaying data, implements the IListSource interface and, hence, can be a data source for other components - data consumers such as Chart-components, export components and so on. .. (Read more...)

Star schema

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:41:44 GMT

The star schema is the simplest data warehouse schema. Its main advantages are: direct and intuitive mapping between business entities analyzed by end users and the schema design, and highly optimized performance for typical data warehouse queries... (Read more...)

Snowflake schema

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:39:13 GMT

The snowflake schema of organizing data is more complex in comparison to a simple star schema. Graphical representation of the schema resembles a snowflake, hence the name. Snowflake schemas normalize dimensions to eliminate redundancy... (Read more...)

Locating a hierarchy member

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:15:11 GMT

All operations, fulfilled in the RadarCube library, deal with hierarchy members represented by the TMember objects. Thus, locating a hierarchy member is one of the important tasks for a programmer... (Read more...)

Are there any security mechanisms in RadarCube like those realized in MS Analysis?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:12:58 GMT

RadarCube CONTAINS NO nested resources for restricting user's access to the Microsoft Analysis 2005 Cube data (exceptiong subselects, of course), since the task has been already solved by the developers of that OLAP-server. But our main aim was to create a web-application where each of Internet-user could view the MS AS Cube data by using an independent kit of access rights... (Read more...)

Does the RadarCube ASP.NET control have the ability to customize color schemes?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:06:09 GMT

Yes, surely. Here is how you can do that... (Read more...)

How do I use RadarCube in a web-part?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:56:16 GMT

With RadarCube you can: use it in the WebParts mode, change the TOLAPGrid.Description and TOLAPGrid.Title properties to tune the WebPart interface, and add extra items to the WebPart menu... (Read more...)

How to localize RadarCube (WindowsForms and ASP.NET)

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:52:34 GMT

It's easy to localize RadarCube through the Internet... (Read more...)

New HierCube VCL version: 4.48

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

New features:

New ability to change the default icon displayed in the internal grid. This can be done using the THierCubeGrid.OnDrawCell event handler. See description of the event for details.
Documentation updated.

Bugs fixed:

Sometimes the Fact Table Editor ends up with the "Out of memory" exception after clicking the "OK" button.
When the source data set is empty the Fact Table Editor doesn't even show up because of the "Out of memory" exception.

New HierCube VCL version: 4.47

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

New features:

Loading from a compressed stream is now 4 times faster. This is especially visibly on the large streams (10MB and above).
New event THierCubeGrid.OnCloseDimensionEditor allows getting to know if a user has changed something in the "Dimension Editor" window.
Documentation updated.

Bugs fixed:

An exception is raised in the demo application when double clicking a grid cell.
If the display name of a dimension is changed, all export components nevertheless put out the initial display name.