Time for action — using FusionCharts.dll in a new Visual Studio project

1. 1. Fire up Visual Studio, and create a blank ASP.NET (C#) website. Save the project as Harrys_Supermarket.

2. 2. Right-click the project's name in Solution Explorer | Add New Item | Web Form. Rename it to ArrayExample.aspx for our first example that we will soon build.

3. 3. Copy the Charts folder from the FusionCharts download package, and paste it in Solution Explorer.

4. 4. Right-click the project's name in Solution Explorer and select Add Reference. In the window that pops up, click on the Browse tab, and navigate to the FusionCharts download package | Code | CS | bin | FusionCharts.dll. This will create a bin folder in Solution Explorer, and will have the FusionCharts.dll file in it.

What just happened

We just prepared this project to use FusionCharts.dll, and now we are ready to create our first chart. For our first chart, we will create a multi-series Column 3D chart to represent the Sales of Food Products versus Non-Food...