Professional ASP Programming Guide for Office Web Component: With Office 2000 and Office XP

--Chart Types
--Chart Elements
--Chart Area
--Plot Area
--Chart Titles
--Legend
--Series
--Values
--Axes
--Gridlines
--Error Bars
--Trendline
--Data labels
--Split Axis
--Add Data Labels

It contains code samples for all the chart types you will need:

--Pie Chart
--Line Chart
--Area Chart
--Column Chart
--Bar Chart
--Gantt Chart
--XY Scatter Chart
--Stock Chart
--Doughnut Chart
--Radar Chart
--Bubble Chart
--Polar Chart
--Combination Chart
--Create Multiple Charts in the Same Chart Space

This book has proven to be a very worthy purchase.


An useful reference for programmers with rich code samples   March 19, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I found this book is a very useful reference for programmers since it is source code intensive.

In the chart component section, the book clearly described the elements of chart component such as Chart Titles, Legend, Series, Values, Axes, Gridlines, Error Bars, Trendline, and Data labels. The book offers complete code samples in:

--Pie Chart
--Line Chart
--Area Chart
--Column Chart
--Bar Chart
--Gantt Chart
--XY Scatter Chart
--Stock Chart
--Doughnut Chart
--Radar Chart
--Bubble Chart
--Polar Chart
--Combination Chart

The book also introduced some advanced techniques with the chart component such as Split Axis, Add Data Labels, Create Chart Methods, and Create Chart using XML Data.

The book also provided rich code samples for Pivot Table component and Spreadsheet component.


Very useful   August 6, 2002
Laurie Siregar (Topeka, KS)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I found the book easy to understand. It has tons of examples and was written in a very friendly style. The book has extensive coverage on Chart component.


This is a first-rate book for programmers   August 6, 2002
Peter Dodge (Dallas, TX 75212)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

I consider this is a first-rate book for programmers. I thought it was easy to read and full of useful information. This is an excellent book for people interested in coding Office Web Components. This book introduces the concepts very well and has excellent code examples to reinforce these concepts.
The author provides good background explanations for Chart elements. I set up my charts from OLAP data using this book very quickly. The code sample I used from this book for Charting can not be found in MSDN or anywhere else. Sometimes I found trivial grammar errors. Maybe the author needs a better editor.


Very helpful for charting   March 6, 2002
David McMahon (Reston, VA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I found this book has been extremely useful for dynamic charting on the web site. All chart types and source code samples have been covered thoroughly. The author even showed you the techniques of charting Gantt chart for project management. This is a complete reference for programmers.