Essential Chart adds skin support

Syncfusion Essential Chart 2010 Vol 3 also features ToolTips, watermarking, draggable toolbars and context menus.

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Displaying ToolTips on a chart with Syncfusion Essential Chart.

Syncfusion Essential Chart is a business-oriented charting component which offers an innovative data object model that makes it easy to populate a chart with any kind of data source. Syncfusion Essential Chart features an advanced styles architecture that simplifies complex multilevel formatting. It can handle data in different ways. You can add data points to a series and let the chart manage them. Alternatively, you can achieve easier data binding to a data set using the built-in ChartDataBindModel control, and you can specify column names containing the x- and y-coordinate values. For additional flexibility, you can implement the IChartSeriesModel interface and plug-in a custom model. Syncfusion Essential Chart includes components for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF platforms.

The following editions are included:

• Syncfusion Essential Chart for ASP.NET
• Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms
• Syncfusion Essential Chart for WPF
• Syncfusion Essential Chart for Silverlight
• Syncfusion Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC

Syncfusion Essential Chart is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition, Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Chart ASP.NET 2010 Vol 3

• Added support for grouping the stacking columns
• Added support for Skins

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Chart ASP.NET MVC 2010 Vol 3

• ToolTip Support
  Essential Chart supports ToolTips that display chart coordinates (x and y) for data at a particular point as well as information about the data point.
• Watermark Support
  Watermark support has been added to show text, images, or both as watermarks inside the chart area.
• Toolbars
  Toolbars that can be dragged have been added with various options, allowing you to save, copy, and print a chart in just a few clicks.
• Context Menus
  Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC now comes with context menu support. Context menus can be used to save a chart, print a chart, and more.
• Chart Series Skins
  Skins have been added with nine built-in themes for a chart series, adding a new level of professionalism to charts. The following skins are available: Pastel, Nature, GrayScale, EarthTone, Triad, DefaultAlpha, Colorful, Analog, and WarmCold

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Chart Silverlight 2010 Vol 3

• Internal controls have been redesigned as templates that can easily be customized in Expression Blend
• Excel-like chart styles have been improved
• Support for customizing strip line content has been added

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Chart Windows Forms 2010 Vol 3

• Added support for grouping the stacking columns
• Added support for Skins

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Chart WPF 2010 Vol 3

• Default styles have been added
• Range selection for a chart area has been added
• The ShowTooltip property for a chart series has been added
• Small ticks for a log axis have been added
• Style support has been added
• Print support has been added in the context menu
• Support for default ToolTips has been added
• Support has been added for a linear gradient brush in the heat map control
• Support for retaining the axis position has been added
• Support for translating strip line text has been added

For more information visit:
http://www.syncfusion.com/company/news/press-releases/2010/ncjulessintell2010-07-19/syncfusion releases essential studio 2010 volume 3

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Syncfusion's award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to grow with you, whether you're using Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight.