Create 3D Pie chart

[Ravindran Siva Sankar]

Hi we want to make a 3D Pie Chart in Telerik Reporting Report.

Can you guide me to get the 3D Pie Chart.

My Code Is below:

chartCS_HW_Quontity.IntelligentLabelsEnabled =

 

false;

 

chartCS_HW_Quontity.ChartTitle.TextBlock.Text = "Title Text";

 

reportAccess.getTotHWMachine(loc, dept, projid).ToString();

 

chartCS_HW_Quontity.PlotArea.Appearance.Border.Width = 0F;

chartCS_HW_Quontity.PlotArea.Appearance.FillStyle.MainColor = System.Drawing.

 

Color.Transparent;

 

chartCS_HW_Quontity.PlotArea.Appearance.FillStyle.SecondColor = System.Drawing.

 

Color.Transparent;

 

chartCS_HW_Quontity.Legend.Appearance.Border.Visible =

 

false;ChartSeries serie = new ChartSeries();

 

serie.Type =

 

ChartSeriesType.Pie;

 

serie.Clear();

serie.Appearance.LegendDisplayMode = Telerik.Reporting.Charting.

 

ChartSeriesLegendDisplayMode.ItemLabels;

 

 

 

DataTable dt = new DataTable();

 

dt = reportModel.getQuontityOfHW(loc, dept, projid);

 

 

for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count ; i++)

 

{

 

 

ChartSeriesItem item = new ChartSeriesItem();

 

item.YValue =

 

Convert.ToDouble(dt.Rows[i]["count"].ToString());

 

item.Name = dt.Rows[i][

 

"papersize"].ToString();

 

item.Appearance.Exploded =

 

true;

 

item.Label.TextBlock.Text =

 

/*dt.Rows[i]["papersize"].ToString() +*/ "#%";

 

item.Appearance.FillStyle.FillType =

 

FillType.Solid;

 

 

 

if (i==0)

 

item.Appearance.FillStyle.MainColor =

 

Color.FromArgb(79,129,189);// Color.Blue;

 

 

 

if (i == 1)

 

item.Appearance.FillStyle.MainColor =

 

Color.FromArgb(192, 80, 77);

 

 

 

if (i == 2)

 

item.Appearance.FillStyle.MainColor =

 

Color.FromArgb(155, 187, 89);

 

 

 

if (i == 3)

 

item.Appearance.FillStyle.MainColor =

 

Color.FromArgb(128, 100, 162);

 

item.Label.TextBlock.Appearance.TextProperties.Color =

 

Color.Black;

 

serie.Items.Add(item);

}

 

chartCS_HW_Quontity.Series.Add(serie);

[Peter]

Hi Siva,

The report Chart does not support 3D charts. However if you're using another control that supports 3D charts and has an API to save the chart as an image, you can display the generated chart in a Telerik Report via the PictureBox item. You can see such an example in the Use asp:chart in Telerik Reports code library.

Generally check out the RadChart for WPF. This control supports 3D charts and you can export it to image. If you are interested check out the following help articles:

• 3D Charts
• Creating a Chart in Code-behind
• Export to Image

Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Ravindran Siva Sankar]

Actually we Purchased DevTools.

I cannot understand that another controls that supports 3D Chart means what is this?

Now We are using Web Application with MVC3 Razor.

In this, how we can use another controls except Telerik Reporting PieChart.

Please Guide me to achieve my Expected Results.

[Peter]

Hello Siva,

You can use any control that renders an image in Telerik Reporting PictureBox. Just set the PictureBox.Value to an user function that returns the desired image as shown in the following code snippet:

public static Image GetControlImage()
{
     var control = new SomeControlCapableToRenderImage();

     //setup the control

     //invoke the control image rendering method
     return control.RenderImage();
}

Kind regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[J]

Does the report chart support 3D charts already? I would need a 3D Pie chart.

Thanks.

[Ivan Hristov]

Hello,

Supporting a 3D pie chart is not in our immediate plans. We do not believe this feature will add significant value to our data presentation possibilities, but quite the opposite - when misused, it can deliver incomprehensible or even misleading view over the presented data.

You can review this article that gives more details about using the 3D-effects in charts and reports, along with some recommended practices and approaches for creating readable and understandable reports. We hope you will find the provided information useful.

Regards,
Ivan Hristov
Progress Telerik