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Nevron Software, the leader in development of data visualization technology, has been included in the 2010 SD Times 100 Awards list. For the second consecutive year, Nevron has been recognized as a key industry innovator and leader in the development of data visualization controls!

Each year the SD Times 100 recognizes companies, non-commercial organizations, open source projects and other initiatives for their innovation and leadership. Judged by the editors of SD Times, the SD Times 100 recognizes the top innovators and leaders in multiple software development industry areas.

"Receiving the prestigious SD Times 100 award for a second consecutive year is a great recognition of our efforts to provide the leading data visualization technology for the professional developers, development managers and IT professionals" says Ivo Milanov, CTO of Nevron Software. "This is an important acknowledgement for Nevron Data Visualization controls and consolidates our position as the industry leader in the Components & Libraries Data Visualization Development."

The 8th Annual SD Times 100 is the newspaper's listing of those companies, organizations and individuals that most broadly "set the agenda" for software development managers, developers, and the industry through leadership and innovation during the past year. It is judged by the editors of SD Times. Nevron Software has been recognized in the "Components & Libraries" category.

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We are pleased to announce the release of the new service pack for Nevron .NET Vision 2010. Vol.1. The service pack introduces:

- Support for Visual Studio 2010 - new installation for VS2010 is available for download
- Update for all installation version – Nevron .NET Vision for VS2005, VS2008 and VS2010
- Significant performance improvements in the Chart Sampled Series

Nevron .NET Vision 2010 Vol.1 SP9 is now available for download:
http://www.nevron.com/Downloads.Download.aspx

To download the latest service pack, you have to login to your user account.

NOTE: VS 2010 users must switch the target framework to ".NET Framework 4" as by default Windows Forms applications target ".NET Framework 4 Client Profile". This is required, because Nevron Chart and Diagram for WinForms are using design time support features that are not present in ".NET Framework 4 Client Profile". To do this right click on the project in Solution Explorer and select properties. On the Application tab go to "Target Framework" and select ".NET Framework 4".

Nevron .NET Vision for VS2010 Help Documentation is now in CHM format.

We hope that you will enjoy working with the new major release of the leading Data Visualization suite for .NET development.
Feel free to send your feedback, bug reports or any issues to: support at nevron dot com

Best regards,
Nevron Support Team

Introduction

Nowadays the globalization process is stronger than ever and many companies sell products and services all over the world. That's why software applications in many areas need to provide geographical and mapping information to the end users. World's most popular format for storing such information is the ESRI shapefile. There are hundreds of freely available ESRI maps on the web and now you can easily take advantage of them using Nevron Diagram and its integrated mapping features. All you have to do is to put our diagramming component in your project and your mapping solution is just a few lines of code away.

Nevron Diagram for .NET Maps will enhance your .NET desktop or Web-based applications by adding intuitive, user-friendly and interactive Maps and geographical data, extending the Diagram to provide sophisticated graphs for your specific business needs.

How to add a map

To import maps in you diagrams just follow these simple steps:
1. Create an object of type NEsriMap that will host the geographical data.
2. Add the ESRI shapefiles you want to load one by one using the Add method of the map. The Add method returns the created shapefile in case you want to set some of its properties:

• EnableZoomInRange - Gets/Sets whether the objects from the file should only be shown if the current zoom factor is in the Min/Max Zoom factor range specified by the MinShowZoomFactor and MaxShowZoomFactor properties.
• NameColumn - Determines the data column from the DBF file to use for naming of the diagram elements that are created from this shapefile.

• PolygonsAsShapes, PolylinesAsShapes - determine whether to render the objects as shapes or as paths.
• ImportInMultipleLayers - determines whether to import the data from each ESRI file into separate layer.
• FeatureCreatedCallback - if you want to perform additional customization on each diagram element implement the INFeatureCreatedCallback interface and set it to this property.

Users Manual

All classes and interfaces referring to the mapping functionality are placed in the Nevron.Diagram.Gis namespace. Let’s take a closer look at them.

1. NEsriShapefile - represents an ESRI shapefile containing geographical data. Provide the name of the ESRI shapefile (.shp) to the constructor and then call the Read method. For each shapefile you can specify the name of the column it will use for naming the diagram elements and the min and max zooming factor it will be shown on.

2. NEsriMap - represents a collection of ESRI shapefiles. You can add one or more files using the Add method. It returns a reference to the ESRI shapefile, so that you can set one or more of its properties if you want to. The Read method is used to read all shapefiles in the map. You can use the indexer to get a reference to the shapefiles. The GetAllFeatures method returns all shapes in all shapefiles of the map. Using the Parallels and Merdians properties you can specify the way they are rendered. The Projection property determines the projection used to convert the 3D geographical data to 2D map data.

3. NGisFeature - this class is the base for all ESRI shapes. It contains two important values that are common for all ESRI shapes - the shape type (the possible shape types are described in the ENShapefileRecordType enum) and the attributes of the shaped. The attributes are read from the .dbf file that has the same name as the .shp file and are stored as a DataRow object.

4. INFeatureCreatedCallback - interface containing callbacks for shape creation. You should implement this interface if you want to be informed each time a diagram element is created and imported from the ESRI shapefile to the diagram. This makes it easy for you to apply additional styling on the imported diagram elements according to the attributes of each shape. For example if you want to make the cities that have population more than 5 000 000 two times bigger than the others you should use code similar to:

public void OnPointCreated(NDiagramElement element, NGisFeature feature)
{
NPointElement pe = (NPointElement)element;
float population = float.Parse(feature.Attributes["POPULATION"].ToString());
if (population > 5000000)
{
pe.Size = new NSizeF(2 * pe.Size.Width, 2 * pe.Size.Height);
}
}

5. NEsriImporter - this class is used to convert ESRI features to diagram elements and import them in your diagram. As said previously in the How to add a map section the class provides some properties that can help you control the importing process:

• PolygonsAsShapes, PolylinesAsShapes - determine whether to render the objects as shapes or as paths.
• ImportInMultipleLayers - determines whether to import the data from each ESRI file into separate layer.
• FeatureCreatedCallback - if you want to perform additional customization on each diagram element implement the INFeatureCreatedCallback interface and set it to this property.

6. NGisProjection - abstract base class for the projections that specify how to interpret the 3D map data as 2D rendering data. Currently the following map projections are available:

Aitoff - Proposed by David A. Aitoff in 1889, it is the equatorial form of the azimuthal equidistant projection, but stretched into a 2:1 ellipse while halving the longitude from the central meridian.

Bonne - a pseudoconical equal-area map projection. All parallels are standard, with the same scale as the central meridian; parallels are concentric circles. No distortion along the reference parallel or the central meridian.

Cylindrical Equal-Area - represents a cylindrical equal-area projection of the Earth. The following is a summary of cylindrical equal-area projection's special cases: - Lambert - standard parallel of 0 degrees - Behrmann - standard parallel of 30 degrees - Tristan Edwards - standard parallel of 37.383 degrees - Peters - standard parallel of 44.138 degrees - Gall - standard parallel of 45 degrees - Balthasart - standard parallel of 50 degrees

Equirectangular - projection that maps meridians to equally spaced vertical straight lines, and parallels to equally spaced horizontal straight lines.

Eckert IV - pseudocylindrical and equal area projection. The central meridian is straight, the 180th meridians are semi-circles, other meridians are elliptical. Scale is true along the parallel at 40:30 North and South.

Eckert VI - pseudocylindrical and equal area projection. The central meridian and all parallels are at right angles, all other meridians are sinusoidal curves. Shape distortion increases at the poles. Scale is correct at standard parallels of 49:16 North and South.

Hammer - an equal-area map projection, described by Ernst Hammer in 1892. Directly inspired by the Aitoff projection, Hammer suggested the use of the equatorial form of the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection instead of Aitoff's use of the azimuthal equidistant projection. Visually, the Aitoff and Hammer projections are very similar, but the Hammer has seen more use because of its equal-area property.

Kavrayskiy VII - a map projection invented by V. V. Kavrayskiy in 1939 for use as a general purpose pseudocylindrical projection. Like the Robinson projection, it is a compromise intended to produce good quality maps with low distortion overall. It scores well in that respect compared to other popular projections, such as the Winkel Tripel, despite straight, evenly-spaced parallels and a simple formulation. It has been used in the former Soviet Union but is almost unknown in the Western world.

Mercator - introduced in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator. It is often described as a cylindrical projection, but it must be derived mathematically. The meridians are equally spaced, parallel vertical lines, and the parallels of latitude are parallel, horizontal straight lines, spaced farther and farther apart as their distance from the Equator increases. This projection is widely used for navigation charts, because any straight line on a Mercator-projection map is a line of constant true bearing that enables a navigator to plot a straight-line course. It is less practical for world maps because the scale is distorted; areas farther away from the equator appear disproportionately large. On a Mercator projection, for example, the landmass of Greenland appears to be greater than that of the continent of South America; in actual area, Greenland is smaller than the Arabian Peninsula.

Miller Cylindrical - a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller (1897-1979) in 1942. The parallels of latitude are scaled by a factor of 0.8, projected according to Mercator, and then the result is divided by 0.8 to retain scale along the equator.

Mollweide - The Mollweide projection is a pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for global maps of the world (or sky). Also known as the Babinet projection, homolographic projection, or elliptical projection. As its more explicit name Mollweide equal area projection indicates, it sacrifices fidelity to angle and shape in favor of accurate depiction of area. It is used primarily where accurate representation of area takes precedence over shape, for instance small maps depicting global distributions.

Orthographic - a perspective (or azimuthal) projection, in which the sphere is projected onto a tangent plane. It depicts a hemisphere of the globe as it appears from outer space. The shapes and areas are distorted, particularly near the edges, but distances are preserved along parallels.

Robinson - made in 1988 to show the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find the good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image. The projection is neither equal-area nor conformal, abandoning both for a compromise. The creator felt this produced a better overall view than could be achieved by adhering to either. The meridians curve gently, avoiding extremes, but thereby stretch the poles into long lines instead of leaving them as points. Hence distortion close to the poles is severe but quickly declines to moderate levels moving away from them. The straight parallels imply severe angular distortion at the high latitudes toward the outer edges of the map, a fault inherent in any pseudocylindrical projection.

Stereographic - it is a particular mapping (function) that projects a sphere onto a plane. The fact that no map from the sphere to the plane can accurately represent both angles (and thus shapes) and areas is the fundamental problem of cartography. In general, area-preserving map projections are preferred for statistical applications, because they behave well with respect to integration, while angle-preserving (conformal) map projections are preferred for navigation. The stereographic projection falls into the second category.

Van der Grinten - neither equal-area nor conformal projection. It projects the entire Earth into a circle, though the polar regions are subject to extreme distortion. The projection offers pleasant balance of shape and scale distortion. Boundary is a circle; all parallels and meridians are circular arcs (spacing of parallels is arbitrary). No distortion along the standard parallel at the equator.

Wagner VI - a pseudocylindrical whole Earth map projection. Like the Robinson projection, it is a compromise projection, not having any special attributes other than a pleasing, low distortion appearance.

Winkel Tripel - a modified azimuthal map projection proposed by Oswald Winkel in 1921. The projection is the arithmetic mean of the equirectangular projection and the Aitoff projection. Goldberg & Gott show that the Winkel Tripel is arguably the best overall whole-earth map projection known, producing very small distance errors, small combinations of ellipticity and area errors, and the smallest skewness of any map. In 1998, the Winkel Tripel projection replaced the Robinson projection as the standard projection for world maps made by the National Geographic Society.

Conclusion

The growing need of applications that provide geographical aware data makes it very important for any developer to have a robust and carefully tested solution that will save his time by simplifying the process of adding geographical and mapping features to his application. And here’s where Nevron mapping solution comes in handy.

For more information on Nevron Diagram for .NET and view the demo examples, download a fully functional evaluation of the product, visit: http://www.nevron.com

Nevron Gauge for SharePoint is an advanced web part, which delivers a complete set of radial and linear gauges, numeric displays and state indicators which are driven by pivot data aggregation. This allows the creation of complex gauges, KPIs, Scorecards and Dashboards, that are tightly integrated with your data, to be done visually and directly in SharePoint environment.

Nevron Gauge for SharePoint includes:

• Multiple Gauge Areas and Gauge Combinations
• Advanced Gauge Axis Model and Scales Configuration
• Advanced Pivot Data Aggregation
• Built-in gauge formulas for data analysis
• Advanced Gauge Editor, Visual Styling and Code Customization
• Binding to ODBC, OLEDB, SQLServer data sources
• Binding to Business Data Catalog and Excel Services
• Support for WSS and MOSS ... And much more...

General Features

Easy Integration in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS)
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint provides support for MOSS and WSS. The gauge web part is designed to enhance your SharePoint dashboards, scorecards, report solutions and KPIs, in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services.

Multiple Gauge Areas
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of gauge areas. Each gauge area has its own gauge type. Gauge areas can be automatically or manually arranged. Gauge areas can be nested into one another to create sub gauges.

Multiple Titles
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of titles. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to gauge, gauge areas and gauge plot areas.

Gauge Templates
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint has support for saving and loading templates. Save the gauge state from the designer to XML and then import it in in a different gauge web part.

Binding to Diverse Data Sources
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint can bind to any ODBC, OLEDB or SQLServer data source, binding to Excell Services, Business Data Catalog and SharePoint Lists.

Pivot Data Aggregation
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint supports advanced pivot data aggregation features. The pivot data aggregation capabilities embedded in the product are only comparable to the ones provided by leading reporting tools. However none of these solutions provides this level of flexibility and ease of configuration inside SharePoint nor the advanced data visualization of Nevron.

Blazing Fast Gauge Designer
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint features an advanced designer, which is built with jQuery UI. The designer supports all major web browsers and does not require any plugins (like Silverlight or Flash). It does not use postbacks, MS ASP.NET controls or MS AJAX, which ensures that the client-server communication is brought to a minimum. The server-side UI processing is pure HTML and script rendering. The client-side is pure HTML, CSS and jQuery JavaScript.

Support for Code Customization
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint supports customization through C# or VB.NET code, directly in the web part editor, which allows you to use the full Nevron Chart for .NET API in SharePoint.

Gauge Types
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint provides support for various Radial (Circular) Gauges, Linear Gauges, Numeric Display panels and State Indicators.

Gauge Formulas
Gauges are designed to provide data analysis to sets of numeric values. Gauge formulas can be applied to the aggregated sets applicable to axis ranges {min and max}, ranges {begin and end} and pointer and numeric display values. Nevron Gauge for SharePoint includes various types of data analysis formulas like: Min, Max, Average and more.

Gauge Axes
Nevron Gauge for SharePoint radial and linear gauge types support an unlimited number of axes, packed with a complete set of features designed to solve even the most complex gauge requirements.

Gauge Axes Ranges
Nevron radial and linear gauge types support an unlimited number of ranges. Ranges help you visualize the coverage of a values range on a certain axis.

Gauge Pointers
Radial and linear gauge types support an unlimited number of pointers. Pointers help you visualize a value on a certain axis. Radial gauges support numerous needle styles. Both linear and radial gauges can display pointers as markers.

Learn more

The major release is now available for download and includes Nevron Chart and Gauge web parts for WSS and MOSS 2007. Analyze your data by adding interactive, AJAX-enabled pivot charts and gauges to your SharePoint portals, all without using Visual Studio.

Nevron Gauge for SharePoint delivers a rich set of Linear and Radial Gauges, Numeric Displays and State Indicators to your SharePoint applications. The web part uses the powerful Nevron Pivot data aggregation engine, which combined with the numerous gauge customization features makes it the perfect tool for the display of KPIs, numeric and real time data inside SharePoint. The web part is also very useful in the creation of Enterprise grade digital dashboards and reports as an integral part of the Nevron SharePoint Vision suite.

The product is completely configurable trough an advanced, pure HTML based gauge designer. The gauge designer supports all major web browsers and does not require any plugins (like Silverlight or Flash). It does not use postbacks, MS ASP.NET controls or MS AJAX, which ensures that the client-server communication is brought to a minimum in order to speed up the design process. The server-side UI processing is pure HTML and script rendering. The client-side is pure HTML, CSS and jQuery JavaScript.

"Nevron Gauge for SharePoint is the perfect complement to our new SharePoint Vision product line as it allows it to scale to the point where the suite can be used for the creation of completely functional and interactive dashboards directly inside SharePoint. The component delivers presentation quality charts, gauges and numeric displays, coupled with an advanced data aggregation features through the use of the Nevron Pivot engine. This ensures that both our components for SharePoint share the same underlying analytical power and reduces the learning curve for IT professionals and developers that adopt this solution as part of their SharePoint applications." says Ivo Milanov, CTO of Nevron Software LLC.

For more details on the new major release, take a look at: What's New in Nevron SharePoint Vision 2010 Vol.1

Download a fully-functional free evaluation today: Download Nevron SharePoint Vision Full Evaluation

Nevron Software, the global leader in component based data visualization technology, announces the official release of Nevron .NET Vision 2010 Vol.1.

Among the many new features and improvements, the release adds vector export capabilities to PDF, Flash, Silverlight (XAML) and EMF formats. Together with the already supported SVG vector export, the components in the new Nevron .NET Vision suite are now uniquely positioned to offer support for both Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and printed media support inside a single and consistent API. This makes it possible to create complex BI dashboards, SCADA interfaces, workflows, org charts etc. that would meet the diverse media requirements of today's enterprises.

The leading .NET charting component has also been extended to provide built-in support for the visualization of large data sets. Embedded in the component are advanced multithreaded clustering and sampling algorithms, which allow you to visualize datasets with hundreds of thousands of data points.

The leading .NET diagramming framework now automatically leverages the power of multi-core processors, by using multiple threads to perform complex layouts faster. WinForm controls embedding is a new exciting feature, which makes it possible to create complex interfaces that blend diagrams with existing WinForm controls.

All components in the suite are now fully localizable.

"This major release strengthens the unique position of the Nevron .NET Vision suite on the data visualization market, by allowing enterprises to consolidate their dashboards and diagram development efforts around a single .NET solution that empowers them to consistently generate content for the diverse world of RIA and printable vector formats." says Ivo Milanov, CTO of Nevron Software LLC. "Together with the new multithreading improvements, advanced sampling and clustering and the fast adoption of our Reporting Services and SharePoint product lines, today Nevron is one of the few companies that provide enterprise-grade data-visualization solutions for both developers and IT professionals alike."

For more details on the latest release, take a look at: What's New in Nevron .NET Vision 2010 Vol.1

Download a fully-functional free evaluation today: Download Nevron .NET Vision Full Evaluation

Nevron Software, the global leader in enterprise and scientific data visualization technology, announces the availability of the new Nevron Chart for SharePoint – Nevron's award winning Charting and Data Visualization technology is now coming to the SharePoint environment.

Analyze your data by adding interactive, AJAX-enabled charting and pivot data aggregation to your SharePoint portals, all without using Visual Studio.

Based on the latest version of Nevron’s Charting Engine for ASP.NET and the new Nevron Pivot Data Aggregation Engine, Nevron Chart for SharePoint is optimized for SharePoint (WSS and MOSS), providing advanced charting functionality and a wide range of features to developers and IT professionals.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint features a complete set of 2D and 3D charting types, advanced Axis Model, Pivot Data Aggregation and Data Analysis. The product can display a wide range of BI, scientific and presentation charts out of the box that can be bound to ODBC, OLEDB, SQL Server data sources as well as to the SharePoint Business Data Catalog.

The product is completely configurable trough an advanced, pure HTML based chart designer. The chart designer supports all major web browsers and does not require any plugins (like Silverlight or Flash). It does not use postbacks, MS ASP.NET controls or MS AJAX, which ensures that the client-server communication is brought to a minimum. The server-side UI processing is pure HTML and script rendering. The client-side is pure HTML, CSS and jQuery JavaScript.

"This is a must-have charting package for any Midsize or Enterprise business, if you are using SharePoint within your organization. Nevron Chart for SharePoint helps you add advanced, interactive charting to your SharePoint projects that comes with fully featured pivot charting capabilities. The level of functionality found in the product is only comparable to leading enterprise reporting tools, however Nevron Chart for SharePoint is the only solution that combines this with flexibility and ease of configuration inside SharePoint." says Ivo Milanov, CTO of Nevron Software LLC.

Nevron Chart for SharePoint General Features

Support for SharePoint Server 2007
Nevron Chart for SharePoint introduces a new level of data visualization, designed to enhance your digital dashboards and reports in SharePoint enviroment.

Support for Multiple Charting Areas
Nevron Chart for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of charting areas. Each charting area has its own charting type and can be rendered in 2D or 3D mode. Charting areas can be automatically or manually arranged.

Support for Multiple Legends
Nevron Chart for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of legends. Each values data grouping can be assigned to a different legend. Legends can be manually positioned or docked to chart, chart areas and plot areas.

Support for Multiple Titles
Nevron Chart for SharePoint has support for unlimited number of titles. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to chart, chart areas and plot areas.

Support for Binding to Diverse Data Sources
Nevron Chart for SharePoint can bind to any ODBC, OLEDB or SQLServer data source and to the SharePoint specific Business Data Catalog.

Pivot Data Aggregation
Nevron Chart for SharePoint supports advanced pivot data aggregation features. You can use formula expressions to group, filter and sort the data. Data groupings are created for chart categories, series and values via client-side drag and drop. Numerous functions for different mathematical, statistical, date-time, logical and text operations ensure that the pivot aggregation is flexible enough to meet even the most complex data analysis scenarios.

Blazing Fast Web Based Chart Designer
Nevron Chart for SharePoint features an advanced chart designer, which is built with jQuery UI. The chart designer is fully ajaxified and supports all major web browsers. It does not use postbacks, MS ASP.NET controls or MS AJAX, which ensures that the server-client comminucation is brought to a minimum, the client-side is pure HTML/CSS with jQuery and the server-side UI processing is pure HTML and script rendering.

Data Aggregation Features

Nevron Chart for SharePoint uses the Nevron Pivot Data Aggregation Engine. A simplified pivot charting model was first introduced in MS Excel - if you are using this feature of MS Excel then you already know the basics of pivot charting and its power.

In MS Excel, data groupings are simply created for field values and a predefined set of aggregate functions are available for calculating the series data point values.

In Nevron Chart for SharePoint you use expressions to define how the data is grouped, filtered and sorted. Expressions can reference field values from the data set and you can use numerous mathematical, statistical, logical, date-time, and text functions to define complex grouping, filtering and sorting rules. Special aggregate functions are available for computing aggregate values (like sum, average etc.)

Because the Nevron Pivot Data Aggregation Engine is data source invariant, this allows you to create pivot charts from any data source, which can provide a table representation of its data.

Because Nevron Chart for SharePoint and Nevron Chart for Reporting Services are built on top of the Nevron Pivot Component framework, they are generally having the same functionality and features. This helps you streamline your IT reporting efforts and reduce your IT staff learning curve - be it SharePoint or Reporting Services - you know that Nevron provides the same powerful and consistent pivot charting functionality.

Go to Nevron Chart for SharePoint Homepage

or

Download Nevron SharePoint Vision Full Evaluation

Nevron Gauge for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005/2008 is an advanced report item, which delivers a complete set of gauge types, highly customizable axes, tight data integration and unmatched visual effects to your reports. It will also improve your report authoring experience, with its polished visual editors, refined settings and well-organized structure. Nevron Gauge for SSRS is a must-have tool for any advanced Business Intelligence, Scorecard, Presentation, Scientific or general purpose report.

Nevron Gauge for SSRS includes:

• Radial and Linear Gauges, LED Displays and State Indicators
• Combinations of Multiple Gauges
• Advanced Gauge Axes and Scales Configuration
• Unmatched Visual Styling
• Built-in gauge formulas for data analysis
• Seamless integration with SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008

General Features

Support for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 editions
Nevron Gauge for SQL Server Reporting Services introduces a new level of data visualization, designed to extend your reports within SSRS 2005 and 2008 editions.

Support for Multiple Gauge Areas
Nevron Gauge for Reporting Services has support for unlimited number of gauge areas. Each gauge area has its own gauge type. Gauge areas can be automatically or manually arranged. Gauge areas can be nested into one another to create sub gauges.

Support for Multiple Titles
Nevron Gauge for Reporting Services has support for unlimited number of titles. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to gauge, gauge areas and gauge plot areas.

Gauge Types
Nevron Gauge for SSRS provides support for various Radial (Circular) Gauges, Linear Gauges and Numeric Display panels.

Gauge Formulas
Gauges are designed to provide data analysis to sets of numeric values. Gauge formulas can be applied to the aggregated sets applicable to axis ranges {min and max}, ranges {begin and end} and pointer and numeric display values. Nevron Gauge for SSRS includes various types of data analysis formulas like: Min, Max, Average and more.

Gauge Axes
Nevron Gauge for Reporting Services radial and linear gauge types support an unlimited number of axes, packed with a complete set of features designed to solve even the most complex gauge requirements.

Gauge Axes Ranges
Nevron radial and linear gauge types support an unlimited number of ranges. Ranges help you visualize the coverage of a values range on a certain axis.

Gauge Pointers
Radial and linear gauge types support an unlimited number of pointers. Pointers help you visualize a value on a certain axis. Radial gauges support numerous needle styles. Both linear and radial gauges can display pointers as markers.

Gauge Types

Radial / Circular Gauges
Nevron Radial Gauge displays axes, ranges and pointers in a circular fashion.

Radial Gauge Subtypes: Radial, Quarter North East, Quarter North West, Quarter South West, Quarter South East, Half North, Half South, Half West, Half East and Custom. When using Custom subtype the user can specify custom begin angle, sweep angle, border style etc.

Linear Gauges
Nevron Linear Gauge displays axes, ranges and pointers in a linear fashion.

Linear Gauge Subtypes: Horizontal and Vertical.

Numeric Display
Nevron Numeric Display panel displays values in a fashion similar to a LED displays.

Numeric Display Styles: Seven Segment Normal, Seven Segment Rounded, Seven Segment Rectangular, Fourteen Segment Normal, Fourteen Segment Rectangular, Fourteen SegmentInset, Matrix Rectangle and Matrix Circle.

Gauge Axes Features

Unlimited Number of Axes per Gauge
Radial and Linear gauge types support an unlimited number of axes, packed with a complete set of features designed to solve even the most complex gauge requirements.

Advanced Axis Positioning Options
Axes can be docked to the gauge sides (or rim) or arbitrary positioned in the gauge model space. In addition you have control over the begin / end axis position relative to the gauge area.

Ruler
Control over the ruler position and appearance.

Ticks
Support for major and minor ticks with control over their appearance and position.

Axis Stripes
Axis Stripes highlight repeating ranges of data on the gauge background, with a controllable show/hide pattern.

Axis Sections
Axis Sections conditionally modify the appearance of axis ticks, gridlines and labels, provided they are within a user-specified data range(s). This feature helps you to highlight important ranges of data along the axis.

Label Layout
Nevron Gauge for Reporting Services provides advanced axis-label layout options, which let you resolve complex axis-label overlapping cases.

Label Formatting
Label Formatting controls the formatting of values along numeric scales. Many advanced options for currency, percentage, scientific and date time label formatting are available.

Gauge Indicator Features

Unlimited number of Indicators
Linear and Radial Gauges support an unlimited number of pointer and range indicators.

Ranges
Ranges help you visualize the coverage of a values range on a certain axis. You have full control over the range offset from scale, appearance and paint order.

Pointers
Pointers help you visualize a value on a certain axis. Radial gauges support numerous needle styles. Both linear and radial gauges can display pointers as markers. Both marker and needle pointers allow you to have full control over the pointer offset from scale, appearance and paint order.

Gauge Formulas

Gauges are designed to provide data analysis to sets of numeric values. Gauge formulas can be applied to the aggregated sets applicable to axis ranges {min and max}, ranges {begin and end} and pointer and numeric display values. Supported are the following gauge formulas:

• Min - finds the min value from a set.
• Max - finds the max value from a set.
• Average - finds the average value from a set.
• Median - finds the value that splits the set in half (e.g. half of the values are smaller than median value and half are larger).
• Percentile - finds the value that splits the set in a custom percent.
• First - gets the first value from a set.
• Last - gets the last value from a set.

Rendering

• Support for different image formats
• Specify resolution
• Image sizing options
• Gray scale rendering
• On/off image map rendering
• Control over the currently used culture settings. You can select a custom culture or synchronize the currently used culture with the user regional settings

Appearance Customizations
Fill Style editor - helps you define the filling of an element. Provides options for solid color, gradient, image and advanced gradient fill types.
Stroke Style editor - helps you define the outline/stroke of an element. Provides options for line caps and joins, line pattern and color.
Shadow Style editor - helps you define the shadow which is casted by an element. Provides options for solid, linear, radial blur and gaussian blur shadows.
Text Style editor - helps you define the default appearance of a text element. Provides options for font size and type, font filling, outline, shadow, backplane etc.
Frame Style editor - helps you define the frame of the component and its panels. Supports artistic/image borders.

Nevron Software provides specialized consulting and custom development services for professional customization and enhancement of your projects to meet the specific requirements of your Applications and Digital Dashboards.

Nevron's Consulting Team consists of highly specialized engineers and professional consultants, who will work closely with you to design and implement your custom projects, based on Nevron Data Visualization technology, and meet your organization requirements. Providing years of development experience, we can help you deliver your projects in time.

What we can do for you - Nevron Consulting Services

Custom Reports and Report Consulting
Nevron consultants can provide assistance and consult you with your company data to enhance and deliver advanced reporting solutions. Custom reports and additional features implementation can also be delivered with Nevron Data Visualization for SQL Reporting Services.

Custom Digital Dashboard Creation
Nevron Consulting Services can assist your organization with building complete dashboard solutions with the leading Data Visualization technology from Nevron Software. Advanced and interactive dashboards can be developed from scratch, or your existing company solution can be transformed, to provide enhanced data analysis, with presentation quality, for your specific industry.

Custom Development
Nevron has been specializing in the development of component-based data visualization and graphing technology for more than 12 years. We provide industry-leading technology to our clients and we can implement custom features or develop complete solutions as part of the Nevron Custom Development Services.

Onsite Training
If you need to train a team of people to work efficiently with Nevron Framework and Data Visualization controls, providing quality and efficiency to your development, Nevron Onsite Training is the right solution for you. More and more companies are realizing the value of bringing expert training on-site. With Nevron Onsite Training you will save on productivity costs, time-learning curve and will speed up project release.

OEM Partnership and Customization
Customize the entire Nevron Data Visualization Framework, including specific features implementation, to be integrated and packaged with your product for distribution. With Nevron’s OEM Customization Program you can either directly bundle our controls with your products, or have them completely customized to meet your specific data analysis and graphing needs.

Pricing is based on hourly rates and will depend on many factors, including project requirements and features involved, task complexity, research and development time etc.

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Nevron specialized engineers and professional consultants that will closely work with you to design and implement your custom projects.

Nevron Chart for Reporting Services is a solution designed to provide to Microsoft Reporting Services report authors an easy and powerful way to author charts that are first in respect to visual quality, effects, layout features and data integration.

Nevron Chart for Reporting Services will greatly improve your chart report authoring experience with SQL Server Reporting Services, by providing a completely visually editable object model that tightly integrates with the underlying data model of SSRS. The component features an unmatched set of charting types, with numerous variations and is suitable for a variety of reporting tasks including BI, Scorecard, Presentation, Scientific reports and more.

Introducing:

• Support for Multiple Charting Areas
• Support for Multiple Legends
• Support for Multiple Tittles
• Full Set of 2D/3D Charting Types
• Support for XY and XYZ scatters inside Reporting Services
• Grid, Mesh and Triangulated Surface Charts inside Reporting Services

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We are pleased to announce the production availability of the new 2009 Vol.1 major release of Nevron .NET Vision - the data visualization components suite for .NET development (WinForms and ASP.NET). In 2009 Vol.1 we have introduced New Chart Series, Chart Axes Improvements, 3D Chart Fit In Box, Gauge Improvements, Diagram Expandable/Collapsible Shapes, Diagram Shape Decorators (Frame, Expand Collapse, Show Hide Subtree), New Diagram Importers (Database and Class Importers), Diagram Layout Improvements and much more.

What is new in Vol. 1 2009?

New Chart Series

• Range Series
  The Range series can display 2D or 3D shapes defined by the begin / end values of their bounding boxes. It can be used for display of histograms, bars with custom sizes, 3D ranges etc.
• Vector Series
  The vector series allows for the display of 2D and 3D vector fields, with controllable vector position, vector direction and color.

Gauge Improvements

• Numeric Display Improvements
  The numeric display panel has been extended to support sign display with several options.
• Indicator Value Dampening
  Both value and numeric indicator can now use a value dampening effect that smooth the transition of the indicator from one value to another.
• Knob Indicator
  The knob indicator is a new type of value indicator with controllable style that provides the end user with an easy way to modify the values.

Chart Axes Improvements

• Range Label Improvements
  Range labels have been improved to support additional tick styles as well as options for automatic fitting and clipping.
• View Range Inflate
  All axes can now be configured to inflate their logical range in several modes. You can now specify whether the axis range should be rounded to the nearest major tick or specify custom logical or absolute inflate.
• Hierarchical Scale Improvements
  The hierarchical scale configurator has been extended to support first level and group level grid style and controllable label overlapping behavior that differs for first and group level labels. The configurator has also been extended to support level padding allowing for better readablity of the labels.
• Timeline Scale Improvements Both the NValueTimelineScaleConfigurator and the NRangeTimelineScaleConfigurator have been extended to support custom step for each timeline row. The NRangeTimelineScaleConfigurator has also been extended to support level padding.

3D Chart Fit In Box

• 3D Fit In Box
  All Cartesian 3D chart can now be forced to fit their entire content (axis labels, series etc.) into the content area box defined by their panel.

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DOM Improvements

• Added was support for expandable/collapsible shapes (groups).
• Added was support for shape decorators. In this release we have implemented the following decorators:
  Frame Decorator - adds a header and background to a shape
  Expand Collapse Decorator - adds an expand/collapse toggle button to a shape.
  Show Hide Subtree Decorator - adds a show/hide subtree toggle button to a shape.
• Added was support for Table Shapes. Table shapes are similar to the tables used in HTML (i.e. each cell can span several rows and/or columns, and may contain images and/or text).
• Added was support for UML Shapes. Built upon the Table Shape, they allow the user to create UML class diagrams with ease. The UML shapes also supports different notations for its UML members.
• Added was support for ERM Shapes and Connectors. With ERM Shapes and Connectors you can easily display any Entity Relation diagram.

Layout Improvements

• The Balloon Tree Layout now has properties to control the sector angle for the children of the root vertex and the children of the other vertices, as well as the start angle at which to begin the arranging of the shapes.
• The Radial and the Single Cycle layouts now allow the user to control their aspect ratio.
• The Tip-over Tree Layout now has a different placement specifier for the leaf nodes.
• The Layered Graph Layout now allows the user to specify the position of each node in its layer individually using its Layout Data.
• The Layout Context now allows the user to specify the shapes and/or groups he/she wants to layout.

New Importers

• The Database Importer allows the users to import the entire hierarchy of a database, which makes the task of creating database entity relation diagrams easier than ever before.
• The Class Importer allows the users to create complete class hierarchy diagrams based on a given class with only few lines of code.

Fixed Issues and Optimizations

• The hit test of diagrams with thousands of shapes has been significantly optimized.
• The clowning and binary serialization of user defined tags has been fixed.
• The Disconnected event is now raised when you remove a connected shape.

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Nevron Diagram Designer is a freeware diagram editor powered by Nevron Diagram. It is suitable for creating various kinds of diagrams and performing different layout algorithms on them. The Diagram Designer also can make you familiar with the features provided by Nevron Diagram.

Besides the Diagram Designer itself we have included in the install package a sample application utilizing the Nevron Diagram components – Nevron Pipeline Editor. It provides you with the power to build complex pipeline systems only by dragging and dropping pipes from the library view into the drawing view. This simple application also can help you understand what our diagramming solution can do for you and your users. All you have to do is to place our diagramming components in your project and to write just a small piece of code and that’s it – you will end up with a fully functional end-user application.

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