Dynamically Adding Series

[Gareth McNicol]

Is there a way of dynamically adding series to the chart view at runtime?  Ideally within an MVVM implementation although that's not strictly necessary.

Thanks,

Gareth.  

[Gareth McNicol]

It's stupendously easy it's just a shame that the online html help is so damned clunky. 

[Lars]

Can you give a brief hint how to do it ?

Lars

[Ves]

Hi Lars,

I am not sure about Gareth's scenario, but generally adding series to RadChartView would involve adding a CartesianSeries (Bar, Line, Area, Spline, SplineArea, ScatterPoint, ScatterLine, ScatterArea, Ohlc, Candlestick) to the RadCartesianChart.Series collection, adding a PieSeries to RadPieChart or adding PolarSeries (PolarPoint, PolarLine, PolarArea, RadarPoint, RadarLine, RadarArea) to RadPolarChart.

BarSeries ser = new BarSeries();
ser.ValueBinding = new PropertyNameDataPointBinding("Value");
ser.CategoryBinding = new PropertyNameDataPointBinding("Category");
chart.Series.Add(ser);
ser.ItemsSource = mySource;

Best regards,
Ves
the Telerik team

[Gareth McNicol]

Yes,

That's pretty much how I did it.  Worked first time.

One suggestion I'd make is to have some sort of lambda to setup the propertyname binding, rather than using magic strings.

so 

new PropertyNameDatapointBinding(() => boundObj.PropertyName);

[Lars]

Ok, thanks a lot. We started out with binding to the SeriesMappingCollection of the RadChart which seems to work for now. Unfortunately, RadChartView does not support inverse axis which is essential for us in some scenarios.

Lars