Large # of XAxis Items

[PaulMrozowski]

 I have a chart which is going to show an area chart with one point for each day over a 6 month period. I only want to show an X axis item for each month of the 6 month period. I tried just adding an Item for each new month (ex. RadChart1.PlotArea.XAxis.AddItem("Name of Month")) but then the other set of data doesn't show up (eg. the chart is empty).

If I add one item for every item in my series (one for every day) I end up with a completely unreadable mess at the bottom of the chart. Instead, I tried added a new item, but setting it's text to empty, ex. RadChart1.PlotArea.XAxis.AddItem(""). That is also unreadable - it fills in the empty values with 0.

Here's what the code basically looks like:

this.radRollingChart.AutoLayout = true;
this.radRollingChart.AutoTextWrap = true;

Telerik.Charting.ChartSeries peopleSeries = new Telerik.Charting.ChartSeries("People", Telerik.Charting.ChartSeriesType.Area);
this.radRollingChart.Series.Add(peopleSeries);

peopleSeries.PlotArea.XAxis.AutoScale = false;

int currentMonth = 0;
foreach (DataRow row in traffic.Rows)
{
    DateTime ddate = (DateTime)row["ddate"];
    if (ddate.Month != currentMonth)
    {
        string date = ddate.ToString("MMM dd yyyy");
        this.radRollingChart.PlotArea.XAxis.AddItem(date);
        currentMonth = ddate.Month;
    }
    else
        this.radRollingChart.PlotArea.XAxis.AddItem("");

    peopleSeries.AddItem((int)row["Count"]);
}

Any thoughts on how I can do this?

Also, is there a way to shut off the value that appears at the top of each data point in the chart (above each "bar")?

[PaulMrozowski]

> Also, is there a way to shut off the value that appears at the top of each data point in the chart (above each "bar")?

It looks like if you set: chartSeries.Appearance.ShowLabels = false it will not show this.

As far as the first problem I ended up setting "empty" values to a \n, ex. this.radRollingChart.PlotArea.XAxis.AddItem("\n"); - that appears to work. The main downside to this was that the labels are now vertical even though there is enough space between each of them. Setting this.radRollingChart.AutoTextWrap = false fixed that issue as well.