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For Immediate Release
July 1, 2004

Contact:

David Johnson
President
Graphics Server Technologies, LP
206-625-6900x3012
davidj@graphicsserver.com
http://www.graphicsserver.com

Graphics Server .NET 2.0 Ships
New Features Help Solve Developer Charting and Graphing Needs

SEATTLE  - Graphics Server Technologies, LP announced today that it has started shipping Graphics Server .NET 2.0. This new upgrade provides innovative new capabilites including the exclusive Design Time Click and Drag.

Graphics Server has long been an asset to developers all over the world. It's extensive capabilities and functioning are what make it a powerful and comprehensive toolkit, while its low cost and simple licensing make it affordable and easy to own.

"The release of Graphics Server .NET 2.0 continues over 10 years of innovative graphing tools for Windows developers" said David Johnson, President of Graphics Server Technologies, L.P. "Our original Graphics Server product shipped with Windows 3.1 and we are proud to continue the tradition of producing value-packed technology components for Windows developers" continued Mr. Johnson.

Graphics Server technology has won many awards from industry editors and readers over the years. In addition, the technology has been OEM'd by many leading technology companies, including Microsoft, Borland, Gupta, Cognos, ESRI, Liveware, and Wall Data.

Graphics Server .NET 2.0 adds many new features, including:

  • Design Time Click and Drag - when developing Windows Forms inside Visual Studio .NET 2002 / 2003 you can now click and drag various chart objects in Visual Studio's Design-View. Very cool and a big time saver!
  • New graph types :
    • Radar Chart
    • Gantt Chart
    • Funnel Chart
  • Conditional Marker Painting - apply conditional marker painting rules to a series of data. You can also create your own custom conditional marker painting classes, making it very extensible.
  • Mouse Over Popup Chart Buttons - print chart, copy chart to clipboard and save chart to file. These buttons give your end-users quick accessing to printing, copying and saving.
  • Anchoring - anchor chart objects just like other .NET anchoring.
  • Annotation Coupling - annotations can now be coupled to a specific edge of the Grid, the Chart Title, or the Legend. When the object moves (i.e. move the Grid), then coupled annotations move along with the object (i.e. annotations move around with the Grid).
  • Grid Titles - a new design time interface to quickly create grid titles. And the Grid Titles will move around with the Grid - internally using the Annotation Coupling feature mentioned above.
  • Grid Margin Clipping - control clipping of series drawing objects in the grid area. This means your lines, bars, etc. do not "overflow" outside the grid area into other parts of your chart.
  • Axis Background - optional background for 2D chart types that paints within the axis system area.
  • AutoBindData Chart Methods - helper methods that make it quick and easy to bind data to a chart.
  • AutoRound Axis Scaling - Axis objects now have a mode to auto-round the tick values along your x axis, y axis and z axis. This gives nice even round numbers for all the ticks you see on your chart.
  • Enhanced Templates - New property serialization methods that can read and write sparsely populated XML chart properties.
  • Quick Layout Improvement - Developers can now apply quick layouts programmatically to a chart. This makes it easy to keep the same proportions when resizing your chart, or applying similar proportions to a new or different chart.
  • DataSetProvider Enhancements - Enhanced ability to link your data or database to a Graphics Server chart series.
  • Legend Icon Outlining - Legend icons now outline in black, making the legend icons more pronounced and crisper. The legend outlines can be turned on or off.
  • Annotation Name Property - Name your annotations. Then quickly find a specific annotation in the annotation list using the Names you've assigned.
  • Axis Label Length Property - Allows axis labels to be chopped off at a specified length.
  • Custom Property Pages - Create your own Property Pages, so your end user can customize the chart using a deep set of features, but in a user friendly manner.
  • And more ...

Graphics Server .NET 2.0 is priced at $899 per developer and requires no additional server licenses for applications deployed on the Web. Upgrades from previous versions of Graphics Server are priced at $499. The no server license approach is virtually unique in the niche, where most competitors require expensive licenses and the associated administrative headaches.

More information about Graphics Server can be found at http://www.graphicsserver.com.

Graphics Server Technologies can be reached at P.O. Box 4545, Seattle, WA 98104 and (206) 625-6900.

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