To create the simplest C1OLAP application, start by creating a new WPF or Silverlight  application and dragging a C1OlapPage control onto the page. Allow the C1OlapPage control to fill the entire page by removing all margin and alignment settings.

Now, let us set a data source for the application.

For this sample, we load Northwind product data from an XML data schema file. We use ComponentOne Data , which provides us the familiar DataSet and DataTable objects to read the data in. We also use ComponentOne Zip to unpackage the zipped XML file on the client.

' load data from embedded zip resource
Dim ds = New DataSet()
Dim asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
Using s = asm.GetManifestResourceStream("OlapQuickStart.nwind.zip")

    Dim zip = New C1ZipFile(s)
    Using zr = zip.Entries(0).OpenReader()

        ' load data

        ds.ReadXml(zr)
    End Using
End Using

// load data from embedded zip resource
var ds = new DataSet();
var asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
using (var s = asm.GetManifestResourceStream("OlapQuickStart.nwind.zip"))
       {
 var zip = new C1ZipFile(s);
        
        using (var zr = zip.Entries[0].OpenReader())
         {
             // load data
             ds.ReadXml(zr);
         }
   }

Then we simply set the DataSource property on the C1OlapPage control. We could use any data binding method with this control.

' bind olap page to data
_c1OlapPage.DataSource = ds.Tables(0).DefaultView

// bind olap page to data
_c1OlapPage.DataSource = ds.Tables[0].DefaultView;

The application is now ready. The following sections describe the functionality provided by default, without writing any code aside from configuring our data source.