So, I've been looking into this and I think I have a fairly solid answer, but I'd like the community's input.
A little background: I did a bunch of C++ and Java programming in college, but it's been a few years since then. I've only been messing with ASP.NET, C#, SQL, and Orion for a few weeks now, so excuse me if I'm a bit inexperienced. Either way...
I was essentially hired in to start developing custom tools for Orion and a bunch of other stuff for my company. We'd gotten a few custom controls to work and had issues with others, so we opened a ticket with SolarWinds who told us they don't support custom controls. Fair enough. The thing is, you can get some of them to work and it's being insisted that it shouldn't be too hard to get this particular one to work.
The project is to take data from either our local database or Orion about nodes which are nominal, alerts, or warnings, and display it on a graph or chart using a SQL query or SWQL. I've looked into it here on the forums and between the answers here over the past few years and the SDK and SolarWinds' documentation, it seems like a pretty bleak picture. We tried a test by just hard coding a .NET chart and briefly modifying the web.config file, but no luck.
I'm considering trying XML or even just writing a non-Orion executable at this point because, after a few hours of research and more testing, I'm really not sure what to do. Has anyone else had any luck getting a chart to work?
