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How To Data Bind PieSeries Color

Updated on Sep 15, 2025

Environment

Product Version	2019.1.220
Product	RadChartView for WPF

Description

How to data bind a model property to a PieSeries or DoughnutSeries slice color.

You can use the Series DefaultSliceStyle and bind the data item's Brush property directly to the Fill property of the Path (see Example 1). If the data item does not have a Brush property, you can use an IValueConverter that returns a Brush object (see Example 2).

When using this approach, make sure that the chart's Palette is not explicitly set. The ChartPalette value takes precedence over the DefaultSliceStyle and will ignore the bound value.

Example 1 - Explicitly Setting Color

Define the Data Model

	public class MyModel
	{
	    public string Title { get; set; }

	    public double Amount { get; set; }

	    public Brush SliceColor { get; set; }
	}

The SliceColor property is of type Brush. This is what will be used to bind to the Fill property of the Path element in the style.*

Create the data items in the View Model

	public class ViewModel : ViewModelBase
	{
	    public ViewModel() { }

	    public ObservableCollection<MyModel> PieData { get; set; } = new ObservableCollection<MyModel>
	    {
		new MyModel { Title = "One", Amount = 70, SliceColor = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightBlue) },
		new MyModel { Title = "Two", Amount = 20, SliceColor = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightSalmon) },
		new MyModel { Title = "Three", Amount = 10, SliceColor = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightCoral) },
	    };
	}

Note that each item has an explicit SliceColor value.*

Define the DefaultSliceStyle and bind the SliceColor property of the slice's DataContext to the Fill property of the Style.

	<telerik:RadPieChart x:Name="chartView">
	    <telerik:PieSeries ItemsSource="{Binding PieData}" ValueBinding="Amount" ShowLabels="False">
		<telerik:PieSeries.DefaultSliceStyle>
		    <Style TargetType="Path">
			<Setter Property="Fill" Value="{Binding DataItem.SliceColor}" />
		    </Style>
		</telerik:PieSeries.DefaultSliceStyle>
	    </telerik:PieSeries>
	</telerik:RadPieChart>

The DataContext of the Path is of type Telerik.Charting.PieDataPoint. The instance of MyModel is accessed through the PieDataPoint DataItem property.*

Example 2 - Dynamically Setting Color

If the data model does not have a Brush property that can be directly bound to Path Fill, you can use an IValueConverter to return a Brush value that can use used to set the Fill value.

Use the code from Example 1 to get started, then take the following additional steps.

Add a class that implements IValueConverter and returns an instance of Brush.

	public class PieDataPointToBrushConverter : IValueConverter
	{
	    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
	    {
		if (value is MyModel data)
		{
		    if (data.Amount <= 10)
		    {
			return new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Green);
		    }
		    else if (data.Amount <= 20)
		    {
			return new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Goldenrod);
		    }
		    else
		    {
			return new SolidColorBrush(Colors.DarkRed);
		    }
		}

		return value;
	    }

	    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
	    {
		throw new NotImplementedException();
	    }
	}

Add an instance of the Converter to the Resources of the RadPieChart

XAML

	<telerik:RadPieChart x:Name="chartView">
	    <telerik:RadPieChart.Resources>
		<local:PieDataPointToBrushConverter x:Key="MyBrushConverter"/>
	    </telerik:RadPieChart.Resources>
	    ...
	</telerik:RadPieChart>

Use the converter on the DefaultSliceStyle binding