You are trying to compile your solution or a single project and Visual Studio responds back with build failed message but without any errors shown in the error list and checking the output messages no real clue is given for the reason to the error.

Google Visualization API becomes a breeze in MVC and classical ASP.NET applications with the shiny new class library which today were released in github under GPL v3. As a ASP.NET and MVC programmer you now can create interactive charts easily in your controllers and support asynchronous query calls from the API.

Using Performance Counters as a system administrator is a very important tool. Understanding the dozens of performance counters that exists and their formula is not easy. Myself I were faced a problem when relogging performance counter data to SQL. You can use Data Counters in Performance Counters to store the data and then relog this to SQL (or store it directly to SQL).

ZingChart is a new piece of software used to build flash and HTML5 charts. So if you are a using Microsoft MVC for your web solutions you may need some helpers to make the charting a breeze. Here I create a simple way of controlling the ZingChart in the controllers.