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Essential Chart adds VS2010 integration

2010 Volume 2 adds complete integration with the VS2010 designer surface, support for Silverlight 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Chart types including Stacked Area, 3D Bar, Doughnut and 3D Line.
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Chart types including Stacked Area, 3D Bar, Doughnut and 3D Line.

Essential Chart fully supports the VS2005, VS2008 and VS2010 development platforms and efficiently extends these development tools to let you easily put together professional-looking charts. Some 35+ chart types provide you with numerous options right out of the box, and extensive support for customizations allows you to easily lend a distinctive look and feel to all your charts. Data binding is possible with data sets, and there is also support for exporting charts as vector images into PDF, DOC, XLS, etc. Included with every license is a one-year subscription for unlimited technical support and updates.

The following editions are available:

Syncfusion Essential Chart is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio.

Updates in 2010 Volume 2

Complete integration with the Visual Studio 2010 designer surface and support for Silverlight 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Essential Chart for WPF

  • Interactive cursor
    Essential Chart allows the user to position the cursor at a specific data point in a series—the x- and y-axis values will be indicated by pop-up windows. As the cursor moves, the corresponding values will change.
  • IDictionary IList support
    Essential Chart now supports binding a dictionary list to the x- and y-paths of a chart series.
  • More 3-D charts
    Essential Chart now supports more 3-D charts—such as 3-D pyramid charts.
  • Empty points for FastLine charts
    Essential Chart now ships with the addition of empty points for FastLine charts.
  • Showing minor gridlines with logarithmic axis
    Grid lines and smaller ticks can now be customized when the axis is set as logarithmic.
  • Zooming and Panning
    Essential Chart now comes with support for panning a zoomed area, allowing users to pan from one point to another.
  • Binding array objects
    Essential Chart now allows binding array objects to x- and y-paths.
  • Additional zooming functionality for SyncChartAreas
    Essential Chart allows users to enable panning and zooming in a synchronous chart area.
  • Lazy loading support for FastChart types
    Essential Chart has increased its performance by decreasing loading time.
  • Customization support for FastChart types
    FastChart types can be customized, including FastStackingColumn, FastHiLoOpenClose, FastScatter, and FastColumn.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC

  • Scrolling and panning
    After zooming, to see the visible area, you can use scrolling and panning. You can scroll both vertically and horizontally by using the mouse wheel. For panning, you can click and drag the chart area to reveal hidden areas.
  • Interactive cursor
    Essential Chart allows the user to position the cursor at a specific data point in a series—the x- and y-axis values will be indicated by pop-up windows. As the cursor moves, the corresponding values will change.
  • RealTime chart
    Essential Chart is optimized to deal with real-time data. It can work with large amounts of real-time data and render a smooth and dynamic chart.
  • Skins Support
    Essential Chart supports 14 different types of skins, giving a new look and feel to a chart.

Chart for Silverlight

  • Alternating background
    Chart Silverlight now comes with the addition of an alternating background for the chart area.
  • Logarithmic axis support
    The labels of a logarithmic axis can be customized.
  • Empty point support for basic chart types
    Essential Chart adds support to enable or disable empty point visibility. This support is implemented for basic chart types that include column, bar, line, scatter, bubble, and stacking column charts.
  • Small Tick lines between grid lines
    Essential Chart allows adding small ticks and gridlines between the major grid lines.
  • Legend Customizations support
    Essential Chart now allows customizing a legend at run time.
  • Striplines
    Essential Chart now comes with an additional strip-line feature that can be added to a plot and segmented.
  • ToolTip for chart segment
    To identify the points of all segments, Essential Chart now comes with ToolTip support for chart segments.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion has a mission to produce world-class Windows Forms, ASP.NET and WPF components that enable developers to produce quality software for the most demanding of environments. With Syncfusion components, developers can quickly and easily add cutting-edge functionality, high performance and the very latest look and feel to their .NET applications. Syncfusion's innovative libraries are designed to be extensible to ensure maximum benefit to customers. The company provides full source code to enable seamless integration of its libraries with its customers' projects. Syncfusion firmly believes that its success is closely tied to that of its customers, and to help its customers succeed, the company strives to offer technical support that is accessible, accurate and fast.