Binding 50000 records to Cartesian Chart

[Swapnil]

Hi,

Am trying to plot a chart with 50,000 records.

The rendering time required is around 8 to 10 seconds,please suggest how do I improve the performance.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Laurent]

I have experimented with graphs recently. It seems to me that rendering performance is fine. What gets slow for big amount of data is actually building the data structure that support the chart.

Suggestion: Have you tried to preallocate your data points? That helped (not much though) in my test app.

Suggestion for TELERIK devs: Series objects do NOT have a capacity parameter for their constructors. This may be an issue if these collections are based on growable arrays, such as List<>. When the client code adds data points, the corresponding collections will be copied into a new one, the old one thrown away, which takes plenty of time and creates additional memory pressure and needless runs of the GC. 

[Laurent]

@Swapnil: I forgot: Make sure to calculate ​the tick interval according to the number of chart data points. If you don't, you will get dozens of thousands of ticks, slowing everything down..

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello guys,

By default RadChartView is using WPF FrameworkElements to draw its data points. Drawing such big amount of elements using the XAML rendering engine is quite heavy operation which leads to the long rendering time. However, RadChartView supports couple additional rendering engines for its series - Bitmap and Direct2D. You can read more about them in the Rendering help article. Also, you can consider sampling your data using the ChartDataSource.

Regards,
Martin
Telerik