Chart for WinForms

Overview

Telerik Windows Forms Chart is a lightweight, easy-to-use data presentation component that offers support for all popular chart types. Stunning Vista-style looks, wide set of style presets, and an innovative Chart Wizard for virtually codeless development make it the perfect charting add-on to any application.

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Features

• 15 Chart Types
• Secondary Y Axis
• Numerical X Axis
• Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
• Powerful Automatic Databinding
• Image Maps and Drill-Down
• Empty Value Approximation
• Scalebreaks Support
• Auto Text-wrapping
• Flexible API
• Appearance
• Localization Support
• CAB Integration

• 15 Chart Types

  Telerik Windows Forms Chart supports 15 2D charts to help you create rich, visually-appealing presentations, available in both horizontal and vertical directions:
  

  • Bars (Bar, Stacked Bar, Stacked Bar 100%)
    
  • Areas (Area, Stacked Area, Stacked Area 100%)
    
  • Line
    
  • Pie
    
  • Point
    
  • Gantt
    
  • Bubble
    
  • CandleStick
    
  • Splines (Spline, Spline Area)
    
  • Bezier
     
  • With Telerik Chart for Windows Forms it is possible to specify a different chart type for each data series. For example, you can combine an Area and a Line chart, or a Bar and a Line chart.
    

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• Secondary Y Axis

  Telerik Windows Forms Chart offers the highly desirable feature of having a second Y Axis. It allows series from different orders to be displayed. Each chart series has a YAxisType property which sets the corresponding Y axis.
  
  In the screenshot below, the blue series are being scaled by the primary Y axis displayed on the left, and the red one by the secondary Y axis on the right.
  
  

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• Numerical X Axis

  The X axis of the Windows Forms Chart can now be easily set as a numerical axis. As a result, you can set the series items on the right location depending on their XValue property. This is especially important when you receive data, which does not come on a regular basis and the chart has a time axis. Although it is a numerical axis, it can display date time data by simple conversion to DateTime.ToOADate( ) method 8/1/2008 -> 39667.
  

  

  

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• Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support

  Building charts with any degree of complexity is now much easier thanks to the intuitive visual Chart Wizard, which is available within Visual Studio. It helps you traverse the many properties of the Telerik Windows Forms Chart by providing the most commonly used properties in an intuitive way. Through the wizard, you can quickly set up the basic structure of your chart. All modifications are previewed in real-time in the Visual Studio Design surface and can be completely rolled back if needed.
  
  

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• Powerful Automatic Databinding

  Many business applications rely on database data, for example MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Access ODBC as well as XML data and business objects in multiple-tier scenarios. In addition to DataSourceObject support, the Telerik Windows Forms Chart allows binding to an Array, IListSource, IEnumerable, XML, and more.  RadChart also supports DataColumn grouping which allows you to create one series for each unique value of the chosen column. The end result is shown in the chart immediately at design-time.
  

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• Image Maps and Drill-Down

  Image maps (a.k.a. active/hot regions) are visual areas within the chart that allow you to define interactive areas within an image. They can be used for drill-down, displaying tool tips, or for determining which portion of the chart was clicked. The image map areas can appear for many of the chart UI elements, including labels, chart series items, titles, etc.
  Image maps can be also used to implement Drill-Down user interfaces, whereby a subset of data is displayed when the user clicks on a data point or corresponding legend item.
  
  

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• Empty Value Approximation

  The Windows Forms Chart control by Telerik automatically approximates missing values between known data points, simply by setting the Empty property to true on any chart series item. This works for bar, line and area based chart types. You also have complete control over the visual style of empty values. The empty value style can be articulated separately from the style for the main values.
  
  

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• Scalebreaks Support

  The ScaleBreaks feature allows you to "break off" large chunks of the axis so that graphs with large amplitude are easier to read. ScaleBreaks are available for both YAxis and YAxis2 of the plot area. You can tailor the maximum number of breaks, the minimum interval between data points before a break can occur, the visual size of the breaks and the visual style of the breaks.
  
  

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• Auto Text-wrapping

  Telerik Chart introduces automatic Notepad-like word-wrapping functionality for the following text elements:
  

  • Chart Title
  • Chart Legend Item Labels
  • Axis Item Labels
  • Axis Labels
  • MarkedZone Labels
  • EmptySeriesMessage Label
  • DataTable-related text elements

  Automatic text-wrapping is disabled by default but the chart control provides fine-grained API that allows you to enable intelligent wrapping for all elements, or alternatively on individual element basis.
   
  

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• Flexible API

  Telerik Chart for Windows Forms provides you with a fine-grained API that guarantees full control over various programmatic operations such as setting item values, defining the origin/end/step for axes, adding/removing data series, setting Marked Zones, handling events, etc.

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• Appearance

  • Fills and shading - Building highly appealing charts is much easier thanks to the support for gradient fills, hatch fills, and image fills, which can be applied to all chart elements. Telerik Chart for Windows Forms also supports shading and shadows, which use gaussian blur. This approach allows you to increase the chart readability, enhance the visual appeal, and achieve a 3D effect.
    
    
  • Theme Support - Windows Forms Chart comes with a variety of skins to choose from that can be applied directly in design-time for true WYSIWYG experience. As a result, when you change any chart skin you can see the effect right away without compiling the application. The predefined skins are applied through a single Skin property.
    
     
  • Anti-aliasing control - Greater control over the text appearance is available in Telerik Windows Forms Chart thanks to properties for anti-aliased text/legend and crisp text.

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• Localization Support

  Telerik Chart provides full localization support. See Localization and Right-to-Left Support for the full list of Telerik WinForms controls supporting RTL languages and localization.

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• CAB Integration

  Windows Forms Chart provides seamless integration with the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) smart client and its underlying infrastructure. The Composite UI Application Block is designed to help in building complex, enterprise-ready Windows Forms solutions by providing a proven architecture and implementation, based on common patterns found in line-of-business front-end applications. For more information please review RadControls for WinForms CAB Support.

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