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When you get down to it, most business applications are simply displaying and manipulating data. But while that sounds simple, achieving it is not easy. Luckily, there are some great libraries available that help us avoid reinventing the wheel. I recently worked with a client whose analytic toolset was a large Excel spreadsheet that ...

While EPPlus has many built-in functions that allow you to optimize your Excel charts, your client might want a feature that the library just doesn't support. However, there's a way around this. EPPlus uses the Open Office Xml format, which means you can go beyond its code base and extend it with your very own ...

I've recently had the opportunity to work on a data-intensive project for a client using the jqPlot library. jqPlot is a jQuery library that lets you easily render almost any kind of graph you can imagine. I've included a screen shot of two of the graphs I worked on, but you can see just how ...

This especially seems to be the case if you're running Microsoft's Web Developer on XP. You won't know the temp files are a problem until your application suddenly stops working. The only fix I've been able to find is to manually shut down your browser and Web Developer. Then stop IIS, delete ...