The organizational chart is one of the newest controls in Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX suite and because of this we know how important it is not only to improve existing functionalities but to add new ones regularly. With Q2 2012 Telerik’s ASP.NET OrgChart control features’ collection was extended once again. I am happy to announce that two major capabilities were introduced which significantly improve the OrgChart’s performance and usability.

• Load on Demand
• Drill Down

Load on Demand

With Q1 2012 Node and Group collapsing came out. Load on demand continues the sequence in a logical way. Keeping the idea of different type of collapsing (Nodes/Groups), the...

Have you been looking for a way to visually represent your organization? You’re not alone - many of our customers have been requesting this exact feature. Enter the RadOrgChart. This new ASP.NET AJAX control is perfect for displaying hierarchical structures in a visually appealing and intuitive way. My colleague Nikolay already wrote a blog post regarding the features of this control and the post has a lot of good links that you can follow. What I wanted to take a look at here is how you can get started working with this new and awesome control today, so let’s get started...

With Q3 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, a new data visualization control becomes part of the suite – RadOrgChart.

As the name suggests, RadOrgChart’s purpose is to visualize hierarchical structures of organizations in a nice graphical chart.

Here is a quick peek in the First Look demo (It’s pretty nice with the Transparent skin, isn’t it?):

Main Features

Let us see what is under the hood – what are the major features this control brings with its first version.

Data Binding

All the standard Data Sources, used with other RadControls (or WebForms server controls in general) are available for RadOrgChart as well.

Supported are:

• Declarative DataSources;
• Entity DataSource;
• Linq ...