Chart for Silverlight

Overview

Transform various business scenarios into interactive, rich, animated charts that enable the end users to analyze complex data. Take data visualization to another dimension with the first commercial 3D Chart for Silverlight. With its interactivity and animations, Telerik Silverlight Chart leverages the capabilities of the Silverlight platform and allows you to create rich visualizations of enterprise data. 

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Features

• 20 2D Charts Types for Silverlight
• 9 3D Chart Types for Silverlight
• Rich Data Binding Support
• Automated Data Binding to Nested Collections
• Tooltip Support
• Styling and Appearance
• Animations and Interactivity
• Categorical Axis
• Flexible API
• MVVM Support
• Advanced X Axis Capabilities
• Grouping and Aggregation
• Strict Mode for X Axis
• Negative Values
• Multiple YAxis Support
• Silverlight/WPF Code Compatibility
• Easily Customizable Series
• Flexible Layout
• Axis AutoScale Functionality
• Axis AutoStep Functionality
• Free Testing Framework for RadControls
• Building Tests for RadChart
• Horizontal Series
• Exporting
• Human Readable & Scientific labels
• Codeless Test Automation for Chart

• 20 2D Charts Types for Silverlight

  Telerik Silverlight Chart supports 20 2D charts to help you create rich, visually-appealing presentations. RadChart supports the following 2D chart types:
  

  • Bar
  • Stacked Bar
  • Stacked Bar 100
  • Line
  • StackedLine
  • Area
  • Stacked Area
  • Stacked Area 100
  • Range
  • Spline
  • StackedSpline
  • Spline Area
  • Stacked Spline Area
  • Stacked Spline Area 100
  • Spline Range
  • Bubble
  • Stick
  • Candlestick
  • Pie
  • Doughnut 

  

  
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• 9 3D Chart Types for Silverlight

  Telerik Silverlight Chart is the first commercial control to support 3D charts. The 3D charts gallery includes the following 9 types:
  

  • Line
  • Bar
  • Area
  • StackedArea
  • StackedArea 100
  • Pie
  • Doughnut
  • StackedBar
  • StackedBar 100

  Furthermore the control offers rotation on 360 degrees on the X axis.
  
  

  
  
  

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• Rich Data Binding Support

  Leveraging the Silverlight databinding capabilities, Telerik Silverlight Chart ca bind to various data services and other sources, such as:

  • Data Services
  • Lists of objects 
  • ArrayList 
  • ObservableCollection (with support for change notification)

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• Automated Data Binding to Nested Collections

  With the increasing number of Silverlight data sources and support for various data services, a new scenario is becoming more common: data binding to a collection of collections or nested collections.
  To support new data binding scenarios, Telerik Silverlight Chart provides automated data binding to Nested Collections.

  Read how to bind Telerik Silverlight chart to Nested Collections

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• Tooltip Support

  Telerik Silverlight Chart allows adding tooltips to your charts for better visualization of your data. The tooltips can easily show the actual numbers behind the chart or even another chart.

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• Styling and Appearance

  Telerik Silverlight Chart is a 100% lookless control providing full support for Expression Blend.  All 2D series, charts and axis elements can be dropped independently in Blend and styled individually. Furthermore the control ships with several pre-defined skins, which will help you, deliver a consistent look and feel in your application. Restyling RadChart with the available themes is as simple as changing a single property.
  The added custom style properties for all major chart elements and all series facilitate using custom user styles.
  
  

  

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• Animations and Interactivity

  Telerik Silverlight Chart offers rich animations out of the box. Define your own settings that suits best your needs.

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• Categorical Axis

  With this feature enabled X axis can be used to plot not only values (e.g. number of sales, etc.), but also categories (e.g. months of the year, units, people, etc.). Using a Category axis, the Silverlight Chart treats data as a sequence of non-numerical text labels; the marker is placed according to the position of the category in the sequence; data is provided per category.
  
  

  

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• Flexible API

  Telerik Silverlight chart provides a flexible API that grants full control over various programmatic operations. Show/Hide charts labels, tooltips, axes, gridlines and strip lines. Change the chart titles and the data formatting for all chart elements is made easy.

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• MVVM Support

  Telerik Silverlight Chart can be integrated with the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to get better control over chart customization. The control exposes fully separates functionality from appearance, thus providing you the power to completely restyle it without changing a single line of code. See an example
  
  

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• Advanced X Axis Capabilities

  To make the horizontal axis more intelligent and to improve the way horizontal axis handles user data, several new features are introduced:

  Ticks Distance - allows you to provide your own custom interval for tick marks

  Label rotation angle – allows you to skew the labels and choose the angle in order to use the X axis in the most efficient way

  

  Label step – a very convenient feature in a scenario when there are too many labels and they start overlap on the AxisX. What LabelStep does is kind of “sampling” operation where the criteria is ordinal e.g.

  1….2….3….4….5….6….7….8….9….10

  with LabelStep=2 will look like

  1………..3……….5……….7……….9

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• Grouping and Aggregation

  RadChart is now able to group and aggregate data during data binding, optimizing numerous analytical business scenarios. With this feature you can group business objects according to some criteria and calculate aggregate functions on those groups.
  
  

  
  

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• Strict Mode for X Axis

  Telerik Silverlight Chart features a so-called "strict mode" for bar series. All XValues will be respected and bars will be positioned according to their XValues. If, however, you don't have any series items with XValues then RadChart will resume standard sequential ordering of each item. The following supporting features are available:
  
  Automatic range calculation - given in "strict" mode, the horizontal axis is able to calculate its MinValue and MaxValue such as no data is left behind.
  
  Automatic step calculation - when in "strict" mode with AutoRange enabled, the horizontal axis is able to dynamically increase/decrease the number of ticks on resize, resulting in more precise data presentation and better readability.

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• Negative Values

  Telerik Silverlight Chart is now able to draw series below the X-Axis to achieve a more visually appealing rendering of negative values.
  
  

  
  

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• Multiple YAxis Support

  RadChart is able to draw multiple y axes allowing you to plot series of different magnitude side-by-side. The feature comes in handy when the values of the displayed data series vary a lot from one another or different types of data should be presented in one chart. The scale of each added Y axis corresponds to the associated data series and auto adjusts its range.
  
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• Silverlight/WPF Code Compatibility

  The Silverlight Chart shares a single codebase with its WPF counterpart. This means that you can achieve close to 100% code reuse for your chart logic if you have parallel Silverlight/WPF development.
  

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• Easily Customizable Series

  With Telerik Silverlight Chart you can easily change the appearance of series: for example you can make the Bar series use Button controls to visualize data with a very simple change or just use the MVVM model and change the color of each bar. 

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• Flexible Layout

  Telerik Silverlight Chart offers support for multiple chart areas in a single chart control, with a smart legend that can aggregate data from all of them.

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• Axis AutoScale Functionality

  Axes automatically adjust the MinValue / MaxValue range based on the series data that is displayed in the associated chart area.

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• Axis AutoStep Functionality

  The AutoStep feature introduces new and improved level of re-scaling that allows the chart axes to automatically re-arrange their values. Thanks to this feature point labels overlapping is avoided and
  the information is presented clearly and neatly.

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• Free Testing Framework for RadControls

  The free WebAii Testing Framework helps developers build automated functional tests and end–to-end scenario tests for both Silverlight- and AJAX-powered applications. The framework ships with special wrappers for Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX, making it easier than ever before to create and maintain tests. Read more
  

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• Building Tests for RadChart

  Now you can build tests for RadChart with Telerik Free Testing Framework. Our testing tool helps developers build automated unit tests, functional tests and end to end scenario tests for both AJAX- and Silverlight-powered applications. The framework ships with special wrappers for Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight.
  

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• Horizontal Series

  RadChart features HorizontalBar, HorizontalStackedBar and HorizontalStackedBar100 types.

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• Exporting

  Telerik Silverlight Chart is now able to export the rendered chart to different formats like: PNG, BMP, XLSX, SVG.

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• Human Readable & Scientific labels

  For optimizing the understanding of data, RadChart introduces new support formats for numbers. Now the big numbers like 5,000,000 can be represented like 5mln or 5e6.

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• Codeless Test Automation for Chart

  Now you can record, execute and debug functional tests for Chart without leaving the familiar Visual Studio environment. Telerik WebUI Test Studio is an advanced click and play web application testing tool specialized for automating both AJAX and Silverlight applications. The Studio ships with special translators for Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight.
  

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