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UI for WinForms

WinForms ChartView

  • The WinForms ChartView is a versatile control that offers drawing capabilities, user interaction and real-time updates.
  • Part of the Telerik UI for WinForms library along with 160+ professionally-designed UI controls.
  • Includes support, documentation, demos, virtual classrooms, Visual Studio Extensions and more!
WinForms chart control
  • Variety of Series for Data Visualization

    Telerik Windows Forms ChartView control facilitates data visualization, achieving stunning visual effects. This chart component sets no limits on your data visualization needs. It can easily turn into Bar, Pie, Line, Area, Polar, Radar and Scatter with only a few clicks at design time. The input data is contained in a set of series classes. Each series have a collection of data points, that is, a data source which it displays according to the series’ type.

    See the WinForms ChartView Overview Documentation

    UI for WinForms ChartView control displaying an Overview
  • Most Essential Chart Types

    Slick and intuitive, WinForms Chart supports a great variety of chart types:

    • Bar, Range, RangeBar or Radar chart to compare several data sets

    • Pie and Donut chart to visualize a piece of data as part of the whole

    • Area, Line, FastLine, Spline and Stepline charts to monitor trends

    • Scatter, ScatterArea, ScatterLine and Bubble chart to visualize the correlation in a set of engineering data

    • Polar chart to plot engineering data in a polar coordinate system

    • Funnel chart to display a single series of data in progressively decreasing or increasing proportions

    • Waterfall chart to show the cumulative effect of positive or negative values on the starting point

    See the WinForms ChartView Chart Types Documentation

    Spline Chart in WinForms Chart control
  • Excellent Performance

    Easily create live-data experiences with updates as fast as the eye can see.

    WinForms Chart control displaying high performance example
  • Financial Series Support

    Take advantage of the high-low-close (HLC), open-high-low-close chart (OHLC) and CandleStick chart types to visualize data in financial-based applications.

    WinForms Chart control displaying CandleStickChart
  • RadarColumn Series Support

    The RadarColumn Series is a two-dimensional chart consisting of three or more quantitative variables represented on axes with the same starting point in the ChartView. Radar WinForms Charts, also known as web charts or spider charts are often used to showcase the quality of improvement or status in a few different areas.

    See the WinForms ChartView Radar Column Series Support Documentation

    Telerik UI for WinForms Chart control displaying RadarColumn Series
  • Pan and Zoom

    The Pan and Zoom feature enables you to zoom and scroll data displayed over a period of time. With a simple and intuitive move, you can navigate through a large collection of data and focus on the period/category you need. Pan and Zoom works great with RadRangeSelector.

    Another functionality is the Lasso Selection (zoom to selection), where by selecting a rectangle on the surface of the control the latter will then zoom in automatically based on the selected Cartesian area.

    See the WinForms ChartView Pan and Zoom Documentation

    Telerik UI for WinForms Chart control displaying Pan and Zoom
  • Printing Support

    Following RadGridView, RadPivotGrid, RadScheduler and RadPdfViewer, RadChartView is yet another control from Telerik UI for WinForms for printing. Using print setting dialogs, your end users are already familiar with, the printing process will be a breeze.

    The control has a built-in ExportToImage function to export the control content to an image.

    See the WinForms ChartView Printing Support Documentation

    WinForms ChartView control displaying Printing Support
  • Annotations

    GridLine, PlotBand and Marked zone annotations are supported out of the box to help with highlighting an area in the WinForms chart.

    See the WinForms ChartView Annotations Documentation

    WinForms ChartView control displaying Annotations
  • Drill-Down

    The drill-down functionality of WinForms charts enables users to click on a graphical element representing data (bar, pie segment and the like), to navigate to another view containing different data. The new view usually contains finer-grained data such as yearly to quarterly data, quarterly to monthly and so on. Or, in the case of a retail store, from categories to brands, brands to items and so on.

    WinForms ChartView control displaying Drilldown
  • Variety of Axes

    The control offers:

    • Categorical axes to plot data that contains categorical values
    • Categorical and Numerical DateTime axes to plot data with DateTime values sorted chronologically
    • Linear axes to plot data containing numerical values
    • Logarithmic axis used to plot numerical data where the values of each tick is growing exponentially
    • Polar axis rendered as a fixed line in a system of polar coordinates, where polar angle, θ, is measured counter-clockwise
    • Categorical and Numerical Radial axis to plot data in a Radar chart

    Additionally, RadChartView features different plot modes (on ticks, between ticks), axis alignment and inverse axis.

    See the WinForms ChartView Axes Documentation

  • Selection

    By default, the WinForms chart supports selecting single and multiple data points. In addition, using the lasso selection.

    See the WinForms ChartView Selection Documentation

    UI for WinForms ChartView control displaying Selection
  • ToolTip and TrackBall

    Using tooltips, arbitrary information can be shown when the users hovers over a data point. With the track ball functionality, a vertical line is displayed across the chart plot area, and the area is highlighted wherever the line crosses data points. In addition, additional information can be displayed at those intersections.

    See the WinForms ChartView ToolTip and TrackBall Documentation Articles.

    UI for WinForms ChartView control displaying ToolTip and Trackball
  • Scale Breaks

    The ScaleBreaks feature allows you to "break off" large chunks of the axis, so graphs with large amplitude are easier to read.

    See the WinForms ChartView Scale Breaks Documentation

    WinForms ChartView displaying Scale Breaks
  • Smart Labels

    To better outline the values of your data points, they need labels of their own. However, in the case where there are lots of data points, displaying all the necessary labels to the end-user can be a challenging task. RadChartView solves this problem for you by implementing a smart algorithm that arranges the labels preventing them from overlapping each other while making it clear which label belongs to which data point.

    See the WinForms ChartView Smart Labels Documentation

    WinForms ChartView displaying Smart labels
  • Multiple Axes

    RadChartView supports multiple axes on the same chart and allows plotting data of different metric on the same chart. Such visual presentation allows the end-user to understand the relation between the different types of data involved in the same process.

    See the WinForms ChartView Multiple Axes Documentation

    WinForms ChartView control displaying multiple axes
  • Legend

    It is important that you not only provide a beautiful piece of data visualization, but also a map to reading it. With RadChartView you also get a slick looking legend to provide context to your data visualization. The RadChartView legend is easily customizable so that you can align it against the chart plot and make sure that it matches your general look and feel.

    See the WinForms ChartView Legend Documentation

    WinForms ChartView control displaying legend
  • Legends Wrapping

    Complexed ChartView scenarios may require a vast number of legend elements that do not always fit in the given legend space. The legends wrapping feature of the Telerik UI for ChartView has got you covered! Once this setting is enabled, the legends will wrap their content when there is not enough space to fit them all.

    Visit the Telerik RadChartView for WinForms documentation for more information
    WinForms ChartView control displaying Legends Wrapping
  • Null-Value Support

    A feature useful in many business cases, null-value support, enables RadChartView to properly display data with missing records for a given category or date, so your end users don’t confuse the missing records with zero values for those categories/dates.

    See the WinForms ChartView Null-Value Support Documentation

    WinForms ChartView control displaying null value support
  • Predefined and Custom Color Palettes

    You can choose from one of the 19 predefined color palettes to get a chart look and feel that matches your application design. And if you require something even more custom, the flexible ChartView API will allow you to create your own palettes.

    WinForms ChartView control displaying Predefined and Custom color Palettes
  • Seamless Integration With Other RadControls

    The smartly designed Telerik Presentation Framework allows for embedding ChartView into any of the other RadControls. This feature comes in very handy when you have to display trends in a GridView.

    WinForms ChartView control displaying integration
  • Built-in Interactive Themes

    RadChartView comes with several ready-to-use Telerik themes out-of-the-box. With the help of the Visual Style Builder tool you can easily customize any existing theme or create new ones. What's more, we armed you with a third option - utilize an intuitive CSS-like syntax allowing you to quickly built new skins by using code.
  • Data Binding

    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. RadChartView follows the standard Windows Forms data-binding model. It allows you to bind your charts to any custom business object, database or declarative data source.

    See the WinForms ChartView Data Binding Documentation

  • Extensive VS.NET Design-Time Support

    The control can be set up at design time using its Smart Tag or Properties Window, or specifically designed Property Builder.

    See the WinForms ChartView Design Time Support Documentation

    UI for WinForms ChartView in Design Time
  • Also Available...

    The Chart control is also available for these popular frameworks:

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is WinForms ChartView?

    Telerik UI for WinForms ChartView is a versatile charting component that offers drawing capabilities, user interaction and real-time updates. Its intuitive object model and public API allow complex charts to be easily set up either in design time or through code. The control is completely data-aware and may work in bound or unbound mode, depending on the requirements.

    The ChartView is a part of Telerik UI for WinForms control library. To try it out, sign up for a free 30-day trial.

  • Where can I find demos of Telerik UI for WinForms and see ChartView in action?

    The demo application is designed to demonstrate the power of the Telerik UI for WinForms controls suite. You can download the Telerik UI for WinForms demo app on your Windows device.

  • What support options does Telerik UI for WinForms offers?

    Depending on your needs, Telerik UI for WinForms offers the following flexible support options:

    • Lite support: 72-hour response time, 10 support incidents
    • Priority support: 24-hour response time, unlimited support incidents
    • Unlimited support: everything in Priority support, plus 4-hour ticket pre-screening and phone assistance

    Learn more about flexible support and pricing options.

  • How can I try Telerik UI for WinForms ChartView control?

    You can try all Telerik UI for WinForms controls by signing up for a 30-day FREE trial. During your evaluation, you will have access to all the components, technical support, documentation and getting-started resources.

    See the WinForms ChartView Getting Started article for a quick tutorial and don’t forget to sign up for a free 30-day trial to get free support.

  • How many components are included in the Telerik UI for WinForms suite?

    Telerik UI for WinForms offers a wide range of 160+ controls to enable your development of Windows applications. The WinForms UI library is constantly growing. For upcoming release information, visit our Roadmap.

  • How can I buy Telerik UI for WinForms controls library?

    This control is one of over 160+ in the Telerik UI for WinForms controls library which is also a part of the Telerik DevCraft bundle.

    The Telerik UI for WinForms library comes with several purchase options, giving you flexibility based on the needs of your project. The license is perpetual, with subscription options for support and new updates. Please refer to the Telerik UI for WinForms pricing page for more information.

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