Help file glitch (DataType property)

[User (Legacy)]

If you search for CrosstabDataProvider.DataSource Property and then click on 

DataType property on tthis page in the help file, it will display "PAGE NOT 

FOUND "error.

[Software FX]

Dear Alexei,

Thank you for reporting the issue.

Actually, the 404 Not Found is correct because there is no longer a DataType 

property.

So the line "The DataType property may be used to instruct Chart FX how to 

handle each column passed to the CrosstabDataProvider." should not even be 

there. It is legacy from 6.2.

With ChartFX for Visual Studio 2005 we decided to take a better approach.

Whatever you set in your FieldMap.Usage property replaces the DataType 

property.

So if you configure a particular DataBase Field to be used as a 

FieldUsage.Value

It will be treated as a number (and not a string....).

The old CrossTabDataProvider required you to populate two DataType arrays, 

one in CFX Core and one in CrossTab.

Now you only need to populate the Fields Collection in Cfx Core with 

FieldMaps and set the FieldUsage property for each one.

Hope this helps.

-c

"Alexei dragoner" <alexei.dragoner@gmail.com> wrote in message 

news:Ecm3tCTlGHA.3060@webserver3.softwarefx.com...

> If you search for CrosstabDataProvider.DataSource Property and then click 

> on DataType property on tthis page in the help file, it will display "PAGE 

> NOT FOUND "error.

>