Microsoft Data Visualization Components on Windows 7

I’ve been playing around with the Data Visualization Components recently (looking to incorporate the TreeMap control with a SequioaView-a-like disk space analyser) but ran into problems getting the toolkit installed on Windows 7 RC1. Running the setup from the official page at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/dda33e92-f0e8-4961-baaa-98160a006c27/default.aspx gets stuck looking for .Net Framework 1.1.4322;

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Of course, being Windows 7, .Net 3.5 is already installed which should include .Net 1.1 but it looks like the Components installer is hopelessly confused. I couldn’t get the installer to believe we had something better than 1.1 already installed and I didn’t want to try and hack .Net 1.1 on top of Windows 7.

So, all I really needed were the “bunch of files” that come in the Component setup so I installed the package on an XP machine and copied them across to a folder on Windows 7, then referenced the DLL by hand.

I doubt there’s any .Net developers out there, running the RC of Windows 7, who doesn’t have a spare XP machine lying around too(!) but, just in case there is, I’ve placed the Zip here for your convenience. The licence states that it’s OK to distribute for non-commercial use and doesn’t say it needs to be in the original MSI format, so I don’t see a legal problem with this.

2 comments to Microsoft Data Visualization Components on Windows 7

  • sturo

    Hello,
    I want to install your  filetreeview, but i get stuck by this here. I have downloaded this zip file but do not know what the do with it. How do I "reference the DLL by hand"
     
    greetings
    sturo

  • Sorry – should have been clearer. If you've downloaded the source for FileTreeView then add references to the DLLs from Visual Studio.

    If you just want to run the executable, then simply copy the contents of the zip file to the same folder that filetreeview.exe is in and it should find them.

    Cheers

      Scott

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