I have the various co-ordinates of elements in a database. I need to read this co-ordinates and plot and these points on a web page. i also need to show the x and y axis

The System.Drawing namespace has lots of methods and classes for creating images on the fly. You could use those to draw your plot.

To get the image on a page, you'll need to either create the image and save it to the server hard disk, and then provide a normal image tag that points to that image, or you could point the image tag to another page that does the image generation and replies with the binary stream of the image. The second way removes the need to save images to disk and saves lots of permissions headaches. Also doesn't chew up space on the disk.

Peter
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planoie, thanks for the response...my problem is actually plotting these co-orindates..i am having a hard time plotting these points. It is a series of around 144 points, each point having its own x,y.

Have you looked at the drawing namespace yet? In there are lots of classes. Maybe the Pen class is what you need. With drawing namespace classes you can create a blank image "canvas" and draw onto it all the things you want, including the points of your coordinates. Obviously, you'll need to do the math to figure out where to plot the points.

What do you mean by "having a hard time"? What have you tried so far?

I am trying to get the hierachy working right and also feeding in the co-ordinates. I ve never done this before. I come from a CGI/PERL background. Do you have some sample code I can look at?thank you