ASP.NET Core Dashboard Control

• May 19, 2020
• 2 minutes to read

Topics in this section describe how to integrate and configure the Web Dashboard in an ASP.NET Core web application.

Overview

• Server-Side API Overview

  Guides you through the server-side specifics of the ASP.NET Core Dashboard.

• Client-Side API Overview

  Guides you through the client-side specifics of the ASP.NET Core Dashboard.

Basic Configuration

• Integrate the Dashboard Control into a Project

  Shows how to integrate the control into an existing ASP.NET Core application.

• Prepare a Dashboard Storage

  Describes how to create a dashboard storage to keep the created dashboards.

• Register Default Data Connections

  Shows how to provide a Web Dashboard with a set of predefined data connections.

• Register Default Data Sources

  Describes how to provide a Web Dashboard with a set of default data sources that are available to end-users.

• Designer and Viewer Modes

  Describes how to specify the Web Dashboard’s mode.

• Load a Dashboard

  Shows how to specify a dashboard as a default.

Customization

• Themes and Styles

  Describes how to apply or customize the Web Dashboard’s theme.

• Access to Underlying Widgets

  Shows how to access the DevExtreme widgets.

• Manage Exporting Capabilities

  Shows how to configure the control’s export settings.

• Manage Dashboard State

  Shows how to save the result of actions a user performs on the client.

• Manage an In-Memory Data Cache

  Describes the dashboard’s server-side data caching functionality, corresponding API, and how to update the cached data.

Restrictions and Limitations

The ASP.NET Core Dashboard control has the following limitations:

• OLAP mode supports only XML for Analysis (XMLA) with MSMDPUMP. Use the DashboardOlapDataSource.OlapDataProvider static property to specify the XMLA data provider.
• If the dashboard or specific dashboard items are exported to PDF or image formats, their content is saved to the Windows Metafile format, which is not supported by .NET Core. For information on how to overcome this limitation, refer to the Manage Exporting Capabilities.
• Export to images is disabled for .NET Core because of some problems in the Libgdiplus library. See T685212 and T685811 for more information.