Detach chart legend

[Andy H]

I am trying to detach my legend from the DefaultView. Following the post by Manol, I was able to get the desired behaviour, but only when defined in XAML. Using the code below, the legend is shown, but never populated. 

var stackPanel = new StackPanel { OrientationOrientation = Orientation.Horizontal };
var legendName = "MyLegend";
var chartLegend = new ChartLegend { Name = legendName };
var radChart = new RadChart();

radChart.DefaultView.ChartLegend.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
radChart.DefaultView.ChartArea.LegendName = legendName;

stackPanel.Children.Add(radChart);
stackPanel.Children.Add(chartLegend);

This is the XAML, which actually works:

<StackPanel Name="LayoutRoot" Orientation="Horizontal">
    <telerik:RadChart Name="rcChart">
        <telerik:RadChart.DefaultView>
            <telerikCharting:ChartDefaultView>
                <telerikCharting:ChartDefaultView.ChartLegend>
                    <telerikCharting:ChartLegend Visibility="Collapsed" />
                </telerikCharting:ChartDefaultView.ChartLegend>
                <telerikCharting:ChartDefaultView.ChartArea>
                    <telerikCharting:ChartArea LegendName="MyLegend" />
                </telerikCharting:ChartDefaultView.ChartArea>
            </telerikCharting:ChartDefaultView>
        </telerik:RadChart.DefaultView>
    </telerik:RadChart>
    <telerikCharting:ChartLegend Name="MyLegend"></telerikCharting:ChartLegend>
</StackPanel>

Any ideas?

[Giuseppe]

Hi Andy H,

In code behind you can associate the ChartArea and the ChartLegend via the ChartArea.Legend property like this:

var stackPanel = new StackPanel { Orientation = Orientation.Horizontal };
var chartLegend = new ChartLegend();
var radChart = new RadChart();

radChart.DefaultView.ChartLegend.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed;
radChart.DefaultView.ChartArea.Legend = chartLegend;

stackPanel.Children.Add(radChart);
stackPanel.Children.Add(chartLegend);

LayoutRoot.Children.Add(stackPanel);

Best wishes,
Giuseppe
the Telerik team