Xceed Chart for .NET

What's New in Xceed Chart for .NET V4.3?

Xceed Chart for .NET is built and fully compatible with .NET Framework 4 for Visual Studio 2010.

What's New in Xceed Chart for .NET V4.x?

• In addition to a faster 3D render device, a new GDI+ render device creates sharper two-dimensional charts. Data binding to DataAdapters and DataSets is supported; a built-in wizard is provided.
• Full Windows Vista support.
• Compiled against .NET 2.0 (compatible with .NET 3.0).

With Xceed Chart for .NET includes a 3D OpenGL chart renderer which uses the graphic card’s built-in 3D acceleration. That also means you can offer end-users smooth trackball and zoom capabilities, and apply 3D lighting and special scene effects to your charts.

Easy to implement
Xceed Chart for .NET makes it easy to get your Windows Forms application to display presentation-quality charts. Here’s why:

• You can work by example. Using the Chart Explorer, just pick the chart type you need to display from over 115 samples, then copy the source code into your project and adjust the parameters
• You can work visually. With the Chart Wizard or the detailed configuration dialogs, you can entirely bypass having to write configuration code

Power Charts
From simple charts to complex business, scientific and financial charts, with Xceed Chart for .NET, you’re covered: 2D/3D bar, line, area, pie, point, bubble, stock, radar, polar, high/low, grid, mesh, shape and more.

Extra components
Built-in grid and toolbar components add valuable end-user features to software written with Xceed Chart for .NET. They expose the most common chart commands and allow you to easily integrate data-editing features into your applications.

Best of all, for only a fraction more than the cost of Xceed Chart for .NET alone, you can get the Web Forms edition as well as Xceed’s complete suite of 16 full-featured Grid, UI, Compression and Data Manipulation components.

For .NET developers
Xceed Chart for .NET, and its brother Xceed Chart for ASP.NET, feature full support for VB.NET and C# and comprehensive documentation integrated into Visual Studio .NET. Because their major assemblies are written in 100% managed C#, .NET developers can take advantage of the best performance and scalability possible.

Xceed Chart for .NET Features:

.NET technology

• Written entirely in managed C# (except for OpenGL module).
• Not a .NET interface over a recycled ActiveX component
• All error handling works through .NET exception classes
• Object-oriented design created specifically for the .NET framework
• 100% Unicode support
• Can be used in C#, VB.NET, and Managed C++
• Fast loading object with efficient memory usage
• Documentation fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Unique innovations

• Video card hardware acceleration: Useful for real-time applications because it frees your CPU from having to draw the chart and transfers all rendering to the video card's GPU
• OpenGL for rendering charts: Creates impressive lighting effects, smooths chart elements using antialiasing and jittering, and provides unique fill effects
• Built-in UI components: Grid and toolbar components help make the design of applications with Xceed Chart for .NET more visual. The toolbar exposes the most frequently used commands of the chart control and also supports custom buttons. The grid is data-aware and supports true date-time editing, as well as fill effect, line style, and cursor type editing
• Chart Explorer: An interactive application that demonstrates how the different chart types function. Provides 115 chart examples, each with source code

True WYSIWYG design-time and run-time editors

• Over twenty different design-time editors: These allow users to create and modify charts quickly and easily, writing little or no code. State-of-the-art editors with full Visual Studio design-time support allow the creation of charts based on templates and the modification of their data and settings in just a few minutes
• Editors available at runtime: All design-time editors are also available at runtime, including the Chart Wizard and the Chart Editor
• Excel-like fill effect editors: You can not only specify any fill effect that you can specify in Excel, but you can also visually create any custom gradient with the built-in advanced gradient editor

Major features

• Wide variety of chart types: Fourteen major chart types are supported, such as the traditional bar, line, and pie series, but also high-low, mesh surface, and grid surface charts, and even a "shape" chart. Different chart types support multiple modes, meaning that literally dozens of different styles and types are available for developers. Many chart types support XY and XYZ scatter modes
• Empty data point support: All chart types support empty data points
• Flexible integrated legend: Many predefined styles, positions, and data layout strategies are provided. Supports headers and footers
• Built-in functions and formula support: The component has extensive custom formula support with 33 predefined functions, including commonly used financial indicators such as Relative Strength Index, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Momentum, Stochastic Oscillator, Directional Movement System, and Moving Averages
• Advanced control over axis scaling and position: Static and dynamic axis positioning strategies and settings. Several predefined text layout schemes. Four 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
• Display of several chart types simultaneously: Advanced chart margin and fit strategy control
• Display of several series simultaneously: Creating a combination chart has never been easier and more flexible
• Display of multiple charts and legends in the component canvas. Charts can be described on one or more legends. Legends can describe multiple charts
• Image Borders: Impressive skin effects, which add an important final touch to your chart
• Watermarks: Ideal for company logos and trademarks. Can be displayed on top of 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
• Drill-Down capabilities: Extensive drill down support. A wide variety of events available
• Advanced 3D-view control: 360-degree rotation, viewer rotation, orthogonal and perspective projections, offset, and zoom, as well as many predefined projection schemes
• Advanced control over scene lighting: Several predefined lighting schemes. Up to 9 light sources. Spot and Directional light