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New RadarCube for WPF version: 1.30.0

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:23:26 GMT

New features:

RadarCube code is significantly improved. Drilling and OLAP processing has been rewritten completely. As a result the grid hierarchies with lots of open members work much faster and take less memory.

Bugs fixed:

Some serialization/deserialization bugs have been fixed.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.70.0

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:49:52 GMT

New features:

RadarCube code is significantly improved. Drilling and OLAP processing has been rewritten completely. As a result the grid hierarchies with lots of open members work much faster and take less memory.

Bugs fixed:

FileNotFound exception in Save or SaveCompressed methods;
"olapgrid_PagePrompt undefined" JavaScript error on clicking the "..." paging button.

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.60.1

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:01:20 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Various errors on drilling like incorrect results, null reference exceptions, and also unreasonable slowing down of all drilling operations including drill up;
When drawing the Cube Structure Tree there are too many threads created, that may considerably slow down the whole process.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.60.1

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:53:48 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Various errors on drilling like incorrect results, null reference exceptions, and also unreasonable slowing down of all drilling operations including drill up;
When drawing the Cube Structure Tree there are too many threads created, that may considerably slow down the whole process.

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.60.0

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:02:15 GMT

New features:

RadarCube code is significantly improved. Drilling and OLAP processing has been rewritten completely. As a result the grid hierarchies with lots of open members work much faster and take less memory;
The drilling buttons in the grid cells are now shown by default. You can use the ShowDrillButtons property to set up the old behavior;
The "Drillthrough..." context menu command is now shown in any grid cell, for which the operations is possible.

Bugs fixed:

The Grid "shimmering" on drilling operations.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.60.0

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:01:05 GMT

New features:

RadarCube code is significantly improved. Drilling and OLAP processing has been rewritten completely. As a result the grid hierarchies with lots of open members work much faster and take less memory;
The drilling buttons in the grid cells are now shown by default. You can use the ShowDrillButtons property to set up the old behavior;
The "Drillthrough..." context menu command is now shown in any grid cell, for which the operations is possible.

Bugs fixed:

The Grid "shimmering" on drilling operations.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.63.2

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:56:21 GMT

New features:

Ria & Silverlight: New "Full screen mode" button on the toolbox. Pushing the button extends the SL-application or OLAP-control to the full screen;
ClientCallbackMode property of OLAP Grid control has changed. Now JavaSctipt described by the property can be changed dynamically. This script is called on after the callback operation is over.

Bugs fixed:

HTML OLAP Grid: "Wait for server response..." overlay is also shown on pivoting operations. This makes OLAP Grid more stable.
Some minor bugs are fixed.

New RadarBI version: 2.03.0

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:10:00 GMT

What's new:

New Map Widget. Now the cartographic data can be displayed from Bing, OpenStreet, and also from SHP and KML files. The map can display selected cities, which coordinates can be taken from the database or defined automatically (through the Bing Service). The attributes like color and size can be converted from the values or be constant;
Formatting. Several new format masks added for currency and percent values;
Table Widget. Columns removal, sizing and ordering is improved. Now you can use columns with the same names and also format the values in the cells;
Data Source Editor. The data source editor is now more stable and easy to edit its elements;
Data Controllers. Different kinds of bugs are possible when filtering is aggressively used;
Chart Widget. New master style. Markers formatting. Invalid operations are disabled;
RichTextBox Widget. Now is correctly displayed under Silverlight. New RichTextBox master;
Calendar Widget. Some bugs fixed on incorrect properties settings.

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.51.3

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:48:04 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Occasional NotSupportedException when Grid or Chart is getting open;
When removing a measure from the panel it is still there sitting in the grid or chart;
Copying the XMLString from the grid to the chart might cause null reference exception.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.51.3

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:47:24 GMT

Bugs fixed:

The hierarchy editor gets open too long with long and flat lists;
The MD Cube settings dialog gets closed if the server drop down list closes without server selection;
Occasional NotSupportedException when Grid or Chart is getting open;
When removing a measure from the panel it is still there sitting in the grid or chart;
Copying the XMLString from the grid to the chart might cause null reference exception.

New RadarCube for WPF version: 1.20.1

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:10:16 GMT

Bugs fixed:

Design-time: when close and then open a form with an OLAP control on it, the "Null reference" error might come up;
Design-time: "Null reference" error on dropping a Chart control from the tool box to designer;
Design-time: Occasional "Null reference" errors when working with a form designer;
"Invalid operation: error might come up when the size of an OLAP control is not set explicitly.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.63.1

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:30:19 GMT

Bugs fixed:

MSAS: Sometimes when running a project from within Visual Studio the error "Ensure that the server is running" might come up on connecting to a local cube;
MSAS: Drillthrough actions might be ignored for Total and Sub-total cells when filter applied;
The filtering in hierarchy editor is performed as "is equal to" instead of "contains"
Deleting hierarchies from the page area did not always lead to cancelling the applied filters and refreshing the contents of the Grid.
Ria and Silverlight: unselecting the visibility option for all members in the hierarchies editor (the checkbox in the root node) did not work on long hierarchies with the paging option selected.
Recompiling Silverlight OLAP demo application caused the "error in XML document" error when running.

New RadarCube for WPF version: 1.20.0

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:21:54 GMT

New features:

Significant performance boost and memory consumption reduction while displaying large amount of data.

Bugs fixed:

"Null reference" error appears once in a while in different situations;
The parent-child hierarchies do not show the member attributes;
When saving the current layout in OLAP Chart and then reading it back to OLAP Grid, the "redundant" measures may be displayed.

New RadarBI version: 2.02.0

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:33:43 GMT

What's new:

Data formatting significantly improved in both Grid and Chart;
Chart now has much more needed abilities, like multi-axes, zoom and scrolling, more legend and titles settings, and much more;
Dataset editor now can show the content of any table or view;
Some bugs have been fixed.

New HierCube VCL version: 4.60.0

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:03:40 GMT

New features:

Delphi XE2 support;
Ability to add user comments to the grid?s cells. These comments can be saved/restored along with the other state of the grid.

New RadarCube WinForms Desktop version: 2.51.2

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:40:36 GMT

Bugs fixed:

When there is no icon defined for the application the "Icon is not valid or is the wrong type" error message might appear when some RadarCube dialogs (Hierarchy Editor, for example) show up.

New RadarCube WinForms MSAS version: 2.51.2

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:39:56 GMT

Bugs fixed:

When there is no icon defined for the application the "Icon is not valid or is the wrong type" error message might appear when some RadarCube dialogs (Hierarchy Editor, for example) show up.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.63.0

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:23:57 GMT

New features:

HTML OLAP Grid: a progress bar now shows the process when the server is performing a long operation;
HTML OLAP Grid: now the grid's areas open for dragging dimensions/measures to them are highlighted just like in RIA OLAP Grid.

Bugs fixed:

In RIA and Silverlight controls the 2nd level menu might be unstable, even wrapping up occasionally;
When clicking the icon shutting a multilevel hierarchy level the whole hierarchy disappear.

New RadarBI version: 2.01.1

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:30:00 GMT

New features:

The performance of some widgets, especially Table widget, considerably boosted. The amount of the required memory is now much less;
Spanish localization.

Bugs fixed:

RadarBI Web Viewer does not work on an ASP.NET page with the defined Master Page;
RadarBI documentation may not show pictures;
The Gauge widget may be unstable under some circumstances;
A row of minor bugs fixed.

New RadarCube ASP.NET version: 2.62.1

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:06:54 GMT

Bugs fixed:

In HTML OLAP Grid the menu of the second level might not be working;
In some modes OLAP Grid does not display the attributes of dimension members or does it with mistakes;
HTML OLAP Grid does not show the results of the MDX queries to the server;
RIA controls: In the hierarchy filters editor filtering by a substring can be performed with mistakes.

Calculated measures and members in RadarCube

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:47:07 GMT

RadarCube supports creating calculated measures and members by end-users with the in-built formula editor. Both MSAS and Direct versions of RadarCube use the standard MDX syntax and the standard set of MDX functions for creating calculated expressions. This article shows how to do that... (Read more...)

New Silverlight add-on for RadarCube ASP.NET

Wed, 05 May 2010 11:48:32 GMT

The new Silverlight add-on for RadarCube ASP.NET versions has started. This add-on allows you to place the OLAP control you have in any browser-hosted Silverlight application!.. (Read more...)

Designing the Cube with the Cube Creation Wizard

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:40:02 GMT

This article shows how to design the Cube with the Cube Creation Wizard... (Read more...)

Creating custom Time Intelligence

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:25:17 GMT

This article shows how to embed custom Time Intelligence functions into the MSAS versions of RadarCube... (Read more...)

Creating the correct Cube structure

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:06:43 GMT

This article provides some simple guidelines for designing a Cube structure, making it with the maximum performance... (Read more...)

RadarCube Request tracker

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:33:18 GMT

Do you use RadarCube in your applications? Would you like to expand the functionality of your OLAP-reports? Do you have any creative ideas? Don't waste time, add your ideas to our RadarCube Request Tracker right now!.. (Read more...)

Customizing the toolbox in Ria OLAP controls

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:25:04 GMT

This article shows how to customize the Ria OLAP control's toolbox... (Read more...)

How to localize Essential Pack for ASP.NET

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:04:00 GMT

It's easy to localize Essential Pack... (Read more...)

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...)

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...)

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...)

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...)

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...)

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...)

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 HTML 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...)

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

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...)