Stepline, null values and DateTime serie

[Ivano]

I'm trying to plot a “stepline” chart where AxisX is a DateTime and some points are nulls.
As I didn't find any specific series (I hope you'll address soon), I use LineSeriesDefinizion doubling data point (see code) but:
- null value are treated as 0 (wrong since 0 means 0 value while null means missing value)
- where first value is null, the control throws a NullReferenceException

        public MainWindow()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

            ConfigureChart();

        }

        private void ConfigureChart()

        {

            LineSeriesDefinition lineSeries = new LineSeriesDefinition();

            lineSeries.ShowItemLabels = false;

            lineSeries.ShowPointMarks = false;

            SeriesMapping actualMapping = new SeriesMapping();

            actualMapping.SeriesDefinition = lineSeries;

            actualMapping.LegendLabel = "Data";

            actualMapping.ItemMappings.Add(new ItemMapping("Day", DataPointMember.XValue));

            actualMapping.ItemMappings.Add(new ItemMapping("Value", DataPointMember.YValue));

            radChart.SeriesMappings.Add(actualMapping);

            radChart.DefaultView.ChartArea.AxisX.DefaultLabelFormat = "#VAL{dd-MM-yy}";

            radChart.DefaultView.ChartArea.AxisX.LabelRotationAngle = 45;

            radChart.DefaultView.ChartArea.AxisX.IsDateTime = true;

            radChart.ItemsSource = MyData.GetData();

        }

    }

    class MyData

    {

        public DateTime Day { get; set; }

        public double? Value { get; set; }

        public static List<MyData> GetData()

        {

            DateTime today = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, DateTime.Now.Day);

            List<MyData> list = new List<MyData>();

            list.Add(new MyData() { Day = today, Value = null });

            list.Add(new MyData() { Day = today.AddDays(1), Value = 1 });

            list.Add(new MyData() { Day = today.AddDays(1), Value = 2 });

            list.Add(new MyData() { Day = today.AddDays(2), Value = 2 });

            list.Add(new MyData() { Day = today.AddDays(2), Value = 1.5 });

            list.Add(new MyData() { Day = today.AddDays(3), Value = 1.5 });

            return list;

        }

    }

Sincerely
Ivano

 

 

[Dwight]

Hi Ivano,

Yes, you  are right, null values should not be treated as 0. Currently the RadChart does not support null values and does not handle such scenarios correctly. This feature is in our TO-DO list, but I cannot provide any details on when it will be implemented.

Sincerely yours,
Joshua
the Telerik team

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