Not a problem, I am still finishing up some of the work, but I will post some examples as soon as I can. In the meantime if you have any questions I would be glad to help out.

- Larkin

Just curious, do you drop all of your dlls in the GAC for your webserver or have you been successful in adding them to the bin folder and doing custom security?

I plan to create a web part that pull sales data from my sql server and displays the data and a pie chart for the top ten customers. I plan to use the Rad chart control, but as I would normally drop the chart on an aspx page in VS.net, I am a little unclear on what I need to do for a web part to use the control. So any examples you have of using the controls in a webpart would be appreciated.

<DefaultProperty("Text"), ToolboxData("<{0}:TopTenChart runat=server></{0}:TopTenChart>"), XmlRoot(Namespace:="SalesDataWPLibrary")> _

Public Class TopTenChart
Inherits Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart

' Private Shared colors As Color() = {Color.AliceBlue, Color.AntiqueWhite, Color.Aqua, Color.Aquamarine, Color.Azure, Color.CornflowerBlue, Color.SteelBlue}

Dim chart1 As Telerik.WebControls.RadChart
Dim s, s1 As ChartSeries
Private Const _defaultText As String = "TopTen"
Dim _text As String = _defaultText
<Browsable(True), Category("Miscellaneous"), DefaultValue(_defaultText), WebPartStorage(Storage.Personal), FriendlyName("Text"), Description("Text Property")> _

Property [Text]() As String

Get

Return _text

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As String)

End Set

End Property

'Render this Web Part to the output parameter specified.

Protected Overrides Sub CreateChildControls()

chart1 = New RadChart

s = New ChartSeries("GDP", Color.Red, ChartSeriesType.Line)

 s.ShowLabels = True

s1 = New ChartSeries("GNP", Color.Blue, ChartSeriesType.Line)

s1.ShowLabels = True

chart1.YAxis.Visible = True

End Sub

Protected Overrides Sub RenderWebPart(ByVal output As System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter)

'chart1.RenderControl(output)
End Sub
End Class
</code>

Hi Frederick,

You may try the following:

• Copy RadControls folder in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\. Then set the RadControlsDir property of r.a.d.chart to "~/_layouts/RadControls".
• Set the UseSession property of r.a.d.chart to false because session state is disabled by default in SharePoint.
• Make a "temp" folder in c:\inetpub\wwwroot. It is required by r.a.d.chart when session state is disabled.
• Make sure you are instantiating r.a.d.chart and adding it in the Controls collection in CreateChildControls not in RenderWebPart.

Robert
the telerik team

I would be very interested to see how you got the RAD Menu to work.  I have gotten the control to the point where I can get the top level menu to render but when you mouse over items in the top menu, a sub-menu does not drop down as you would expect.

The relevant code:
  protected override void RenderWebPart(HtmlTextWriter output)
  {
   EnsureChildControls();
   RadMenu1.LoadContentFileAbsolutePath(Page.Server.MapPath(".\\menu.xml"));
   RadMenu1.RenderControl(output);

   output.Write(SPEncode.HtmlEncode(Text));
  }

  protected override void CreateChildControls()
  {
   base.CreateChildControls ();
   RadMenu1 = new Telerik.WebControls.RadMenu();
   Controls.Add(RadMenu1);
  }