Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms

Please note: Syncfusion Essential Chart includes Windows Forms, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF components.

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Chart 2011 Vol 4?

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC Mobile

• Chart Control - Essential Chart for Mobile MVC is a lightweight, HTML 5 canvas element-based chart control that is easily configurable. It provides high quality, visually rich business charts on mobile platforms. Essential Chart provides support for the following chart types: Line charts, Step line charts, Spline charts, Pie charts, Column charts, Area charts, Step area charts and Spline area charts.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET

• ToolTips for Chart Axis Labels - Users can add custom ToolTips to display further information about chart axis labels.
• Localization Support - The user interface of a chart can be customized to be locale-specific.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC

• Essential Chart with HTML 5 - Essential Chart with HTML 5 is a lightweight, canvas-based chart control that utilizes HTML 5 to implement a very high performance and interactive chart control.

Essential Chart for WPF

• TimeLine Control - The TimeLine control can be used to view specific time frames in a chart by allowing users to select a range of data. It can be integrated with other controls like Essential Chart, Essential Grid, and Essential Gantt for selecting and viewing data that falls inside a specific time frame. It has a rich UI for users to interact with.

Essential Chart for Windows Forms

• Localization Support - The user interface of a chart can be customized to display chart data according to the language and culture specific to a particular country or region.
• ToolTips for Chart Axis Labels - Users can add custom ToolTips to display further information about chart axis labels.

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms General Features

• Chart and Data Wizard
• Chart Real-Time and Recorder
• Smart Labels
• Template Support
• Unlimited Data Points
• Unlimited Data Series
• Zooming and Scrolling
• Panning support for Zoomed chart
• Chart Localization support

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Chart Types
Essential Chart offers many chart types, ranging from simple column charts to complex financial charts, which can be easily configured to suit the needs of any user. All charts, except radar and polar charts, can be rendered in 3-D mode.

• Accumulation Chart
• Area Chart
• Bar Chart
• Bubble and Scatter Charts
• Circular Chart
• Column Chart
• Combination Chart
• Financial Charts
• Line Chart
• Pie and Doughnut Charts
• Heat Map Chart

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Axis Features
By default, the chart control comes with two primary axes: X and Y. The chart control's framework also provides complete support for the inclusion of multiple x- and y-axes.

• Automatic Range Scaling
• Axes Multiple Layout
• Axis Label Font
• Axis Label Orientation
• Axis Line
• Axis Strip Line
• Axis Ticks
• Chart Axis Label
• Custom Axis Origin
• Custom Axis Range
• Custom Polar Axis Range
• Grid Lines
• Inverted Axis
• Logarithmic Axis
• Opposed Axis
• Scale Break
• Secondary Axis
• Custom Polar Axis

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Export Options
Essential Chart supports exporting the chart control into various formats. Users can also print chart data.

• Export as Image
• Export to DocIO
• Export to Grid
• Export to Excel
• Export to PDF
• Export to SVG
• Print Support

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Alter Series Data and Style
The chart control comes with a rich styles architecture, which separates the display styles from the data model, providing flexibility in the appearance definition for each display element. Styles form the core of the chart control, providing extensive customization. They can be inherited from parent charts, making complex formatting relatively easy.

• Chart with Grid Interaction
• Custom Point
• Data Grouping
• Data Point Symbol
• Data Point Text
• Empty Point
• Series in a Chart Control
• Statistical Formula Support

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Chart Data
Essential Chart can handle data in different ways. You can simply add data points to a series and let the chart manage it; alternatively, you can use the built-in ChartDataBindModel and specify the column names containing the X and Y values to easily bind data to a data set. For added flexibility, implement the simple IChartSeriesModel interface and plug in your custom model.

• Custom Data Model
• Data Binding to a Data Set
• Axis Label Binding
• Default Data Population
• LINQ Support
• Excel Importing and Exporting

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Chart Appearance
A chart's visual appearance can be customized by setting the properties for individual chart elements. The rich styles architecture available for the chart control provides formatting options at point-level as well as series-level.

• 3-D Mode
• Alpha Blending
• Anti-Alising
• Built-in-Skins
• Chart Area and Series Shadow Effect
• Chart Background
• Chart Border
• Chart Font
• Chart Interior
• Chart Symbol
• Clustered Mode
• Color Palette
• Localization
• Series Border
• Spacing Effect
• Multiple Pies

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Title and Data Legend Appearance
A chart legend, which is a symbol-based caption, is rendered for each series in a chart by default. There is also support for adding custom legends as well as plenty of appearance customization options. A chart title can also be fully customized, including but not limited to the font, color, size, position, and alignment.

• Chart Multiple Titles
• Chart Title Alignment
• Chart Title Position
• Legend Background Image
• Legend Border with Different Styles
• Legend Dock and Alignment
• Legend Item Alignment
• Legend Representation Type
• Legend Shadow Effect
• Legend Title Font and Color
• Legend Visible Check Box
• Multiple Chart Legends
• Title Font Size and Color

Syncfusion Essential Chart for Windows Forms Interactive Elements
User interaction adds to the appeal of any control. Keeping this in mind, the chart control has been designed to be completely user friendly and easily applicable to user interactions.

• AutoHighlight
• Chart Get Value
• Chart Host Control
• Context Menu
• Drag-and-Drop Series Points
• Interactive Cursor
• Toolbar
• ToolTip
• Series Highlight