ComponentArt Charting for .NET

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Overview
ComponentArt Charting for NET includes ComponentArt WebChart for ASP.NET,ComponentArt WinChart for .NET and ComponentArt SqlChart for Reporting Services to provide advanced charting and graphing functionality to your ASP.NET, .NET and SQL for Reporting Services applications.

ComponentArt Charting for NET Main Features include:

3D Rendering
Advanced image quality delivered by ComponentArt's 3D rendering engine.
The engine processes lights, reflection and transparency to produce near ray-tracing quality of graphics in a fraction of a second.
The original 3D rendering engine makes full use of 3D space for additional data presentation (for example variable segment heights in pie/doughnut charts)
Advanced features such as object intrusion produce great looking charts, not possible in traditional 2D rendering.

AJAX Features
Zooming, scrolling, drill-down, toolbar are all interactivity implemented through WebChart's client-side API.
The new zooming and scrolling widget enables end users to interactively select the exact range of the X axis in which they are interested in having detailed information. This intuitive user interface is ideal for displaying charts that cover large amounts of data.
Drill-down interactivity allows users to click on data points in order to generate a new chart containing further information about that data point. WebChart's client-side API also exposes mouse hover events for data points.
All AJAX features are implemented through the ASP.NET AJAX-compliant client-side API of the WebChart control.

Flexible Chart Modelling
Tree-like series structure is combined with the API for fine-tuning axes, planes, labels and data points.
Chart contents such as series, axes, coordinate systems, annotations etc. are exposed through both the wizard and property view in design time, as well as through APIs for fine tuning at run-time .The Visual Studio property view provides full access to all chart properties available in design-time. The charting API allows for the finest run-time charting object model tuning, up to the finest detail of individual data points, individual axis labels, etc.

State-of-the-art Wizard Visual Studio design-time Support
Visual Studio design-time support makes creation of complex charts possible without coding. The wizard provides support for series type selection, series hierarchy building and data binding, view direction and coordinate system tuning, colour palette selection, titles, legends, and more. Many complex charts can be built entirely in the wizard without a single line of code.

Extensible and Customizable Chart Styles
All visual aspects of any chart are controlled through a concept of reusable styles for individual chart elements. Chart styles are controlled through a set of fully customizable, reusable and extensible style collections for each type of object that may appear in a chart, such as series, data point labels, axis annotations, etc.
Every type of object that may appear in a chart has its own style type including series, data point labels, 2D and 3D lines, markers and gradients. For every style type a collection of predefined styles is provided. Existing styles can be customized and/or new styles may be created and stored into corresponding style collections, making it easy to create a specific design template. Templates can be used to save and reuse chart styles. For example, a unified chart style can be defined on report and company level.

Pre-loaded with Features
A large number of preloaded reusable chart styles enables quick creation of charts.

• 51 predefined chart types
• 12 predefined colour themes
• Unlimited number of series in a chart
• Unlimited number of data points in a series
• Multiple legends, title items and axes labels
• Date and Time support

Extensive collection of predefined series styles is available in the following categories:

Bar: Cylinder, Block, Hexagon, Paraboloid, Cone, Prism, Pyramid, Rectangle

Area:Simple Area,Smooth Area,Step Area, Simple 2D Area, Smooth 2D Area, Step 2D Area,

Financial: Candlestick,High-Low-Open-Close

Line:Simple Line, Smooth Line,Step Line, Simple 2D Line, Smooth 2D Line, Step 2D Line

Pie/Doughnut Charts: Simple Doughnut, Thin Doughnut, Round Doughnut,Inverted Doughnut,Simple Pie, Thin Pie, Round Pie

Radar: Radar Line, Radar Area, Radar Marker

Marker:Bubble, 2D Bubble,Block,Circle,Diamond,Triangle,Inverted Triangle,Left Triangle,Right Triangle,Cross,X Shape,Arrows

• Pie/Doughnut charts can have variable height to present additional data in true 3D
• Bar objects can have variable width and/or depth to present additional data in true 3D
• Predefined styles may be fully customized
• Custom styles can be created and added to the series styles collection
• Series styles can be freely combined within a single chart, for data presentation flexibility
• Different styles can be applied to data points in the same series independently

Additional Chart Visual Features
Style collections, for various kinds of objects:

• Palettes (12 predefined)
• Data point label styles (18 predefined)
• 3D line styles (9 predefined)
• 2D line styles (10 predefined)
• Marker styles (18 predefined)
• Gradient styles (10 predefined)
• Tick mark styles (4 predefined)
• Label styles (2 predefined) and
• Text styles (4 predefined)
• All predefined styles can be customized
• Custom styles can be created and added to all style collections

Chart and Data Organization
Chart can be divided into multiple areas; an area can contain a chart or it can be divided into smaller sub-areas

• Series are organised in hierarchies of composite and simple series to represent relationship between data sets
• All series properties can be set independently or share common attributes
• Composite series can be displayed using the following composition kinds:
• Sections (behind each other)
• Merged (beside each other)
• Stacked (on top of each other)
• Stacked 100% (showing relative size on top of each other)
• Concentric (for Pie/Doughnut)
• Multiple Coordinate System
• Multiple Area
• Multiple composition kinds possible in a single chart
• Integer, double, DateTime and string dimensions handled along both x- and y-axis
• Users can define custom hierarchical data dimensions

Data Binding (WebChart and WinChart)
Input variables data formats

Relational database objects

• SqlDataSource (WebChart Framework 2.0 and higher)
• AccessDataSource (WebChart Framework 2.0 and higher)
• ObjectDataSource (WebChart Framework 2.0 and higher)
• BindingSource (WinChart Framework 2.0 and higher)
• OleDbDataAdapter
• SqlDataAdapter
• XML without schema
• XML with schema
• Arrays
• Structures
• Any IEnumerable

A expression language can be used to compute new input variables from the existing ones. Charts can get populated by data from input variables

Data Binding (SqlChart)
Binding to Report DataSet (Microsoft.ReportDesigner.RptDataSet)

Free Annotations

• Unlimited number of annotations can be added to the chart
• Annotations can be attached to a data point, coordinate on an axis or any coordinate in a coordinate plane
• Annotations formatting is flexible - you can control colors, fonts, background, etc.

Coordinate System

• Multiple coordinate system in a single chart
• Standard (vertical) and horizontal system orientation plus other four system orientations allow chart viewing in every possible angle
• Reversed direction for all axes

Support

Standard Support:
Provided through Online Support Form, with response within at most three business days. Included with Developer License (6 incidents).Included with Developer Licenses.

Priority Support:
Provided through Online Support Form, with response within at most two business days. Included with any Subscription License (10 incidents). Included with Susbcription Licenses.

Enterprise Support: Rapid response support provided via Online Support Form and by phone, with response time within at most one business day. Included with Enterprise Licenses.

5 Pack of Rapid-Response Support Requests: Package of 5 Rapid-Response level Support Requests, with response within 24 business hours.

5 Pack of Priority Support Requests: Package of 5 Priority level Support Requests, with response within 48 business hours.