Binding to DateTimeContinuousAxis.Maximum

[Geoffrey]

I am trying to bind to the DateTimeContinusousAxis.Maximum property in xaml but when I do it throws an exception. Is this possible?

[Yavor]

Hi Geoffrey,

We have made DateTimeContinusousAxis.Maximum property a dependency property for the Q1 release. Before that it was a regular property and binding it will throw an exception, since bindings are only supported on dependency property.

All the best,
Yavor
the Telerik team

[MikeWiese]

So how would you write code to programatically bind a viewmodel property to an axis min or max?

[Giuseppe]

Hello Mike,

Here is a sample code snippet to get you started:

XAML

<telerik:RadCartesianChart x:Name="RadChart1" />

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using Telerik.Windows.Controls;
using Telerik.Windows.Controls.ChartView;

namespace SilverlightApplication15
{
    public partial class MainPage : UserControl
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            this.DataContext = new ViewModel();

            DateTimeContinuousAxis horizontalAxis = new DateTimeContinuousAxis() { LabelFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy" };
            horizontalAxis.SetBinding(DateTimeContinuousAxis.MinimumProperty, new Binding("AxisMinimum"));
            RadChart1.HorizontalAxis = horizontalAxis;

            RadChart1.VerticalAxis = new LinearAxis();

            BarSeries series = new BarSeries();
            series.CategoryBinding = new PropertyNameDataPointBinding("Date");
            series.ValueBinding = new PropertyNameDataPointBinding("Value");
            series.ItemsSource = (this.DataContext as ViewModel).Data;

            RadChart1.Series.Add(series);
        }
    }

    public class ViewModel : ViewModelBase
    {
        private Random rand = new Random(123456);
        private List<ChartData> _data;
        private DateTime _axisMinimum;

        public ViewModel()
        {
            this.Data = this.GetData();
            this.AxisMinimum = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-10);
        }

        public List<ChartData> Data
        {
            get
            {
                return this._data;
            }
            set
            {
                if (this._data != value)
                {
                    this._data = value;
                    this.OnPropertyChanged("Data");
                }
            }
        }

        public DateTime AxisMinimum
        {
            get
            {
                return this._axisMinimum;
            }
            set
            {
                if (this._axisMinimum != value)
                {
                    this._axisMinimum = value;
                    this.OnPropertyChanged("AxisMinimum");
                }
            }
        }

        private List<ChartData> GetData()
        {
            List<ChartData> data = new List<ChartData>();
            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
            {
                data.Add(new ChartData() { Date = DateTime.Today.AddDays(i), Value = rand.Next(10, 100) });
            }

            return data;
        }
    }

    public class ChartData
    {
        public DateTime Date
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public double Value
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
    }
}

Hope this helps.


Greetings,
Giuseppe
the Telerik team

[MikeWiese]

Thank you Giuseppe