i have made a program which stores a number of record files and need to alanyse financial records of a company and display certain information in graph format so can anyone help me with the basics of graphs which a can manipulate please.

Well there is the Microsoft Chart Control and if you search the web with your friends (yahoo, google, ask, answers, bing) you should be able to find more than one tutorial out there.

Good Luck

you can see this

You can check this as a sample . This is manual coding, you can go for DB connection also.

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