Nevron Chart for .NET (Windows Forms and ASP.NET) - Professional

What's New in Nevron Chart .NET 2012.1 (Build 12.10.9.12)

• Visual Studio 2012 support
• .NET Framework 4.5 support

What's New in Nevron Chart .NET 2012 Vol.1

ThinWeb Chart Control
Nevron Chart contains a brand new AJAX web control called Nevron Chart ThinWeb. This control sets new standards in rich client side interactivity and requires no client side plugins, because it is completely HTML / JavaScript based. The core design goals of the control are:

• Simple Integration in Different Server environments - Nevron Chart ThinWeb can be easily integrated in any server side framework including ASP.NET WebForms and MVC.
• Cross Browser JavaScript - On the client side the control uses the JQuery library to improve cross browser compatibility. It works with all popular browsers including IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.
• Model - View - Controller architecture - The control implements the MVC pattern and provides an API which is consistent with the WinForm MVC implementation of the control. This makes the migration of WinForm applications really easy to the web world.
• Efficiency and Extensibility - The server and client side processing of the control are highly optimized, which results in a smoother web experience and less CPU load. At the same time you have great amount of flexibility to extend or customize the control.

Some of the core features of Nevron Chart ThinWeb control are:

• Ability to generate interactive image maps that can redirect the browser to a specified URL, display a customizable tooltip (CSS class, fade in / out delay etc.) or change the browser cursor.
• Ability to intercept client side mouse events per chart element.
• Ability to generate server side events.
• Ability to generate postback events.
• Support for Chart Zooming, Scrolling and Panning with many settings.
• Support for interactive 3D rotation (Trackball).
• Support for interactive gauge indicator dragging.
• Support for custom requests and commands.
• Integrated toolbar with lots of predefined actions.

The new 2012.1 Chart release also introduces the following features and improvements:

• Custom Series - A new series type is introduced that allows for painting of custom graphics in 2D Cartesian, Polar and Radar charts.
• Custom Painting in Overlay - Custom graphics can be painted in a separate layer over the chart control without the chart contents being repainted all the time. This feature can be useful for painting of interactive tools over densely populated charts.
• Triangulated Surface Simplification - The Triangulated Surface series features a data resampling algorithm that is able to significantly reduce the amount of rendered geometry and in the same time preserve the appearance of the surface close to the original.
• Data Import from .CSV files - The control supports direct import from CSV (Comma-Separated Values) files and streams.
• Data Import from Excel files - The control supports direct import from Excel files in XLS and XLSX file formats.
• Data Point Anchor for Pie Charts - A new type of anchor object allows for annotations and other panels to be attached to data points of a pie chart.
• Radar Axis Titles - The Radar Axis Titles are significantly improved and contain many new options for label positioning, layout and wrapping.
• Performance Improvements - The control features significantly improved performance. We've optimized the following features of the control:
• the Chart DOM model is now much more optimized when new objects or data are added or removed to the control. This reflects the configuration speed of all charting types.
• the Chart axes are optimized to perform much better when they have multiple labels and ticks. This reflects the rendering speed of Cartesian, polar and radar charting types.
• the Chart Image Map generation has been optimized - this reflects the legacy Chart WebForm control and Chart ThinWeb controls.
• specific series that require support for huge data sets are also additionally optimized - this includes all series that support sampling (Line, XY Scatter Line, Step Line, XY Step Line etc.) as well as all series that support clustering - Point, XY Scatter Point, XY Scatter Point, Triangulated Surface.

Nevron Chart for .NET delivers high quality charting capabilities to your WinForms and WebForms applications.

Nevron Chart for .NET Professional Edition contains everything included in the Lite Edition plus Bubble, XY Scatter Bubble, Smooth Line, XY Scatter / DateTime Smooth Line, Empty Data Points Substitution and more.
For the differences between editions, please refer to the "Features List" in the Evals & Downloads section.

Nevron Chart for .NET Main Features include:

• Charting Types
• Bar - Clustered, Stacked, Stacked%, XYZ scatter stack and XYZ scatter cluster multi bar modes. Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles. Support for cluster stack combinations
• Line - line series can be displayed as simple lines, tape, tube or stretched ellipsoids. Overlapped, Stacked and Stacked% multi line modes are supported. XY Scatter mode
• Area - Stacked and Stacked% multi area modes are supported. XY Scatter mode. Supports markers
• Pie - Visualized as standard pies, torus segments or smooth edge pies. Rim, center or spider modes for pie data labels
• Point - Points can be visualized as bar, cylinder, cone, inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported
• Bubble - Bubbles can be visualized as bar, cylinder, cone, inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported
• Stock - Stick and candle styles are supported. Open High Low and Close High Low chart subtypes are also supported. XY Scatter mode (date time stocks)
• Floating Bar - Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles
• Radar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers. A special - elevated center feature
• Polar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers. Radian and degree label formatting
• High Low - High low area with built-in appearance logic. Supports markers. XY scatter mode is also supported (date time range chart)
• Mesh Surface - Surface connecting the user specified X, Y, Z data points. The Mesh surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Several frame styles are supported including: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be uniformly displayed or synchronized with the used palette. Flat mode is also supported (Mesh Contour chart)
• Grid Surface - Surface connecting the regularly spaced data points (forming a grid). The Grid surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Several frame styles are supported including: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be uniformly displayed or synchronized with the used palette. Flat mode is also supported (Grid Contour chart)
• Shape - a versatile rendering series. The ultimate scatter plotter. Can display shapes with the following styles: Smooth edge, cut edge bar, pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone. The user controls the (X, Y, Z) position of the shape as well as its size along the X,Y and Z dimensions. Can also be used for complex composite object rendering
• Smooth Line (Spline) - 2D Smooth line, 3D Smooth Line, XY Scatter Smooth Line, XYZ Scatter Smooth Line
• Float bar (also called Gantt) - Date Time float bar, Date Time Clustered Float Bar
• Venn - 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. Venn set
• Step Line - 2D Step Line, 3D Step Line, DateTime Step Line
• Error Bar - Y Error Bar, XY Error Bar, XYZ Error Bar
• Flexible integrated legend - Lots of predefined styles, positions and data layout strategies. Header and Footer
• Built in Functions and Formulas support - The component has extensive custom formula support with 50+ predefined functions including commonly used financial indicators like: Relative Strength Index, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Momentum, Stochastic Oscillator, Directional Movement System, Moving Averages, Median Price, Typical Prices, Weighted Close, Envelopes, Chaikin's Volatility, Commodity Channel Index, Detrended Price Oscillator, Mass Index, Performance Indicator, Rate of Change, TRIX, Williams %R, Accumulation / Distribution, Chaikin Oscillator, Ease of Movement, Money Flow Index, Negative Volume Index, On Balance Volume, Positive Volume Index, Price and Volume Trend, Covariance, Correlation, Median
• Full Visual Studio design time support - State of art editors. Improved wizard. Creating a chart based on template and modifying its data and other settings takes not more than a few minutes
• Editors available at runtime - All design time editors are available at runtime including the Wizard
• Excel-like fill effect editors - You can not only specify any filling you can specify in Excel but you can also visually create any custom gradient with the built-in advanced gradient editor
• Advanced control over the axis scaling and position - Static and dynamic axis positioning strategies and settings. Lots of predefined text layout schemes. 4 scaling modes - DateTime, Numeric, Logarithmic and Dimension scale. Paging with lots of customizations
• Axis labeling abilities Stripes - constant lines as planes or simple lines, custom axis labels, axis cursors, range selections
• Ability to display several charting types simultaneously Advanced chart margins and fit strategy control
• Ability to display several series simultaneously Making a chart type combination chart has never been easier and more flexible
• Ability to display multiple charts and legends in the component canvas - Charts can be described on one or more legends. Legends can describe multiple charts
• Image borders Fancy skin effects which add this such important final touch to your chart image
• Watermarks - Ideal for company logos and trademarks - can be displayed on top or behind the chart image with user controlled transparency
• Labels - Headers, footers as well as custom positioned labels
• Interactivity Trackball, zoom, offset, mouse cursor change, mouse tooltips and more
• Extensive drill down support. Lots of events for both WinForms and WebForms
• Advanced 3D view control - 360 degrees rotation, viewer rotation, orthogonal and perspective projections, offset, zoom as well as a lot of predefined projection schemes
• Advanced control over the scene lighting - Lots of predefined lighting schemes. Up to 9 light sources. Spot and Directional light
• Integrated layout manager - Support for docking, nesting and anchoring of panels. AutoSize and custom size, bounds mode and more makes the creation of complex, scaleable layouts easy and comprehensible
• Measurement Unit support - All styles and lengths are specified as a pair of value and measurement unit. More than 20 different measurement units (pixel, inch, millimeter, display etc.)
• Annotation support - Annotation support that also allows nesting of panels and anchoring panels to key elements of the chart like data points or legend data items. Arrow, Rectangular Callout, Rounded Rectangular callout, Cut edge rectangular callout and Oval callout
• Advanced logic features and services - Master slave axes, master slave range selections and master slave cursors
• Modular design - Build on top of the Nevron Presentation Framework and Nevron DOM (Document Object Model) Framework. Custom binary and XML structured serialization
• SVG support - Nevron chart can export images with interactive features in SVG format
• Editor direct update feature The chart editor supports direct update feature allowing you to instantly preview the changes in the chart DOM
• Nevron DOM Compatible - The chart is compatible with the Nevron DOM (Document Object Model), allowing you to subscribe for each property change made from code or from the user
• AutoRefresh property When set to true the control will automatically refresh when some of its properties are modified from code
• Custom Binary and Custom XML serialization The custom serialization capabilities of the control allow for version tolerant serialization of the control state in binary and XML form
• Rendering of chart walls Improved rendering of chart walls now allows for transparent walls. Added front and top walls

WinForm specific features

• Built in UI components - Grid and Toolbar components for WinForms. The grid is data aware and supports true date time editing as well as fill effect, line style and cursor type editing. The most frequently used commands are exposed by the Toolbar, which also supports custom buttons and runtime visual configuration
• Ability to leverage the video board hardware acceleration - This feature is very useful for real time applications because it frees your CPU from drawing the chart and transfers all the rendering to the CPU of the video board
• Print Manager - Advanced built-in printing and print - preview support

Web Forms specific features

• Server side events (postback) and HTML image maps - The image maps generated by the component can display tooltips, redirect the client browser to a specified URL or change the mouse cursor
• Server side persistency - The component can preserve its state across roundtrips
• Ability to inject custom client side script - With the help of this feature you can seamlessly integrate the image maps generated from the component with any type of client side VBScript or JScript
• Ability to directly stream an image to the client browser - This is an indispensable feature when building scalable and secure server side applications
• Built-in temporary file clean up - The component automatically detects when a temporary file is expired and deletes it from the server. You can also assign disk space usage quota for the directory holding the temporary files in order to ensure that you cannot exceed the space used by your web server application
• Built-in browser detection - By leveraging the power of the .NET regular expressions you can instruct the component to generate different responses depending on the browser accessing the page

New Support Portal (http://support.nevron.com)
Nevron technical support is based on a ticketing system. The new system aims to provide higher level support services, support ticket tracking and a better customer experience. By using the support portal Nevron will ensure that their support services are always competent and directly address your problems. In addition to Nevron’s services, Nevron also provide bug fixes, product enhancements, and on-going minor product upgrades.

Nevron customers will receive 5 free support tickets with their purchase. Subscription customers will receive 10 support tickets and one full year of major version releases.

When submitting a new support ticket, customers will be provided with suggestions which can assist prior to using the ticket.

Additional technical support tickets can be obtained if needed.