Hi Friends,
I am new to this forum. I have some data generated in a CSV file with about 7 to 8 fields in it. I want to write a program (make some exe any way) to generate graphs using this data. For generating graph, i will have to first manipulate data in this CSV file. For example I will have to filter out data with particular names, do sorting and such sort before finally generating graph.

So my input is the csv file and the output is the graph generated after processing the data.

How can i do it? Is there some way to process data from .CSV files?

I was thinking to do it in .Net. Which is the best way to do?

The data field in csv file will be always same. Please give some help with the reason for that. Expecting a quilck reply...

Thanks
soorej

PLease give some help

Excel?

You can easily get at the CSV file with a StreamReader, but generating the graph is going to be a lot of work. I'd recommend a 3rd Party Component for that.

I'd also recommend this get moved to the .NET forum, or whichever other language you might use instead. Simply because there's no real database involved - you won't be using SQL to get at the information, you'll be doing it by hand.

The free version of C# will do everything you want, including making an exe file. You'll have to write the code, though. Which includes graphing if you don't want to use somebody else's component. That would involve manipulating a graphics object in memory then drawing or saving it to a file.