XtraCharts Suite

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Add 2D and 3D charts to your .NET and ASP.NET applications. XtraCharts Suite offers you a comprehensive set of 2D and 3D charts to address a broad range of business needs with ease. It was designed for both Windows Forms and ASP.NET. In addition to standalone use, XtraCharts offers native integration with the Developer Express reporting platform - XtraReports. Regardless of data source or the manner in which application information is stored on disk, the XtraCharts Suite promises flexibility in its consumption of input data as well as its ability to output/render information on-screen or on the printed

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XtraCharts Suite v2008 vol 1 (V8.1.6)

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What’s new in XtraCharts Suite v2008 vol 1?

New Spline Views - Eight in Total - Below are the spline series views that have been added in XtraCharts v2008 vol 1:

• 2D Spline View 3D Spline View
• 2D Spline Area View 3D Spline Area View
• 2D Stacked Spline Area View 3D Stacked Spline Area View
• 2D Full-Stacked Spline Area View 3D Full-Stacked Spline Area View

New XML Serialization - This means that you can design a chart in one application (such as a Windows Forms app), and then, at design time, transfer it to a Web Application or to an existing report. You can easily change any of its parameters using any text or XML editor.

Medium Trust Support in ASP.NET Charting - Since many web hosts do not grant Full Trust permission to their clients, v2008 vol 1 allows you to create web charts that can work at the Medium Trust permission level. Note however that 3D charts still require Full Trust permission level, because 3D charts are based upon the OpenGL rendering library.

Advanced Customization

• Separate Titles for Pie and Doughnut Views - It's now possible to display titles for individual series (if represented using a Pie or Doughnut view). This feature is extremely useful when multiple pies are shown on the same diagram.
• Display Text Patterns for Labels - You now have total control over text displayed in series point labels, or in a legend. In addition to the CustomDrawSeriesPoint event, which allowed you to customize this text at runtime, you can now specify a display pattern at design time. For example, "{A} - {V}" will be represented as an argument and a value for each data point, separated by a hyphen.
• Labels for Zero-Height Bars - In previous versions, if a bar's height was zero, it was not visible. This made it hard to understand whether there was a bar or not. Now you can indicate such bars using labels.

What's new in XtraCharts Suite v2007 vol 3?

New 3D Bar Views

Previously, if a 3D Bar View had several series, each series was shown as a separate row of bars. This could complicate data analysis, since some bars could be hidden behind bars from a closer series. Even with end-user chart rotation support, this limitation could pose a challenge to some. With vol 3 you can avoid these hassles by using the new 3D Bar View that arranges all bars in one row. Series continue to be easily distinguished from one another by bar color. Also added Stacked and Full-Stacked 3D Bar Views. With them, you can enhance you UI by converting existing 2D charts to their 3D equivalent.

• 3D Stacked Bar View 3D Full-Stacked Bar View
• 2D and 3D Doughnut Views
• 2D Doughnut View 3D Doughnut View

Major Improvements in ASP.NET Charting - This version radically improves the usability of the ASP.NET chart control. DevEpxress have re-designed the WebChartControl so that it's now based on the ASPxperience Suite, and thus provides you with the following benefits:

AJAX Callback Support - Web chart control now exposes a comprehensive set of client-side events. When handling these events, you can indicate that server-side processing is required. If you do so, a callback is initiated thus allowing you to customize the chart on the server. The server will finalize the callback cycle by sending the newly generated chart image to the client. 

Server-side and Client-side Hit Testing - These features allow you to create a more interactive web chart UI. They help you determine which chart element is clicked or hot-tracked. This means that you can display tooltips for chart points, create drill-down charts and even edit charts on the client side.

Empty Point Representation - Included new capabilities in the XtraCharts Suite for situations wherein a data source contains an argument that doesn't have a corresponding series value. This often takes place when you have several characteristics to measure and measurements are carried out against slightly different argument sets. Though arguments differ slightly, you can still store these measurements within a single data table and compare them within a single chart.

These Empty Points - arguments without values are displayed as gaps in Line and Area Views or as missing bars and points. Previously, Empty Points were represented as zeros or were simply ignored (depending on value type).

Convert On-Screen Coordinates to Diagram Values - With vol 3, the chart control can serve not only as a data visualization tool but can also enable data editing directly within a chart. That's right, you can allow end-users to change database values by simply dragging chart elements - points or bar edges. This is possible thanks to the ability to convert on-screen coordinates to internal diagram values.

Improved Legend Customization - Legend should no longer contain the same text as point labels. A new LegendPointOptions property controls how a series point is represented in a legend. This feature is especially useful for Pie and Doughnut series.

If you prefer, you can specify any custom text via the CustomDrawSeries and CustomDrawSeriesPoint events.

What's new in XtraCharts Suite v2007 vol 2

• 3D Area Views and Transparency in 3D Charts - With the introduction of 3D Area View, you now have the ability to create transparent 3D series. This not only provides a cool visual effect, but also delivers important usability features for your end-users. In addition to the side-by-side Area View, also implemented Stacked and Full-Stacked Area Views. All these new series views can be combined with the previously available Manhattan Bar and 3D Line Views within a single chart
• Exploded Pies - You can now emphasize specific pie slices (both 2D and 3D) using the Exploded Pie feature. There are several ways in which to specify the slices to be emphasized. The simplest variant is to enable automatic selection of the smallest or largest slice. You can also select slices manually or specify filter conditions that will be used for actual selection. If the 2D Pie View is used, you can even allow end-users to manipulate slices by simply dragging them in and out
• Scrolling and Zooming in 3D Charts - 3D Charts now fully support end-user scrolling and zooming operations
• Radar and Polar Charts The following new 2D Views are now available:
  • Radar Area View Polar Area View
  • Radar Line View Polar Line View
  • Radar Point View Polar Point View

These new chart types provide you with the same advanced appearance customization options as those found in Area, Line and Point Views. Options include customizable markers, transparent views, various line styles, etc.

• New Chart Wizard Dialog -Version 2007 vol. 2 introduces a completely re-designed Wizard dialog. Most changes introduced have been engineered to provide a better chart customization experience for end-users. Major improvements include:
  • Certain chart pages allow you to filter settings they expose. For instance, you can now filter the list of chart types available to end-users
  • Settings exposed via the Wizard dialog now allow full control over a chart. Thus, new pages have been added to the Wizard and existing pages have been extended, where appropriate
  • The Wizard dialog can now use any look and feel option allowed by the Developer Express shared painting library. By default, it uses the same option as the bound chart control. This enables visual consistency throughout your applications
  • You can now add custom pages to the dialog.
  • More effective screen space usage has been implemented. The dialog has become resizable and its pages now contain splitters, where appropriate
• Office 2007 Look and Feel – The chart appearance customization mechanism has been enhanced to emulate the look and feel found in Microsoft Office® 2007. Enhancements include:
  • More color palettes than in previous versions
  • You can create palettes using shades of a particular color
  • The new chart Wizard dialog provides you with similar chart customization capabilities as those found in Microsoft Office
• Data Management Improvements - Direct Access to Data in Data-Bound Charts. .It has become much easier to access chart data via code. Now you don't have to read values from the bound data source. You can simply obtain arguments and corresponding values via the Points property of the desired series. 
• Improved Performance on Large Datasets - Charts can now be made much more responsive when bound to large datasets. One way to do this is to disable hit information recalculation. This means that you won't be able to determine which chart element is at a particular point, but the majority of applications don't require that. Another way to increase chart performance is to disable data fetching with each re-paint operation. This means that the control will re-read its data only if the data source sends a change notification or if you manually request an update

Target Platforms
Windows Applications - The XtraCharts Suite includes a ChartControl component that provides charting capabilities for Windows Forms applications. Using this single control you can build numerous chart types from 2D bar charts to financial chart views and 3D charting
ASP.NET - The WebChartControl allows you to add charts to your ASP.NET web pages. It delivers the same exact features as its Windows Forms counterpart. The WebChartControl component provides complete View State support - you can customize your chart in web applications and you won't have to restore your changes with each post-back in each individual session. Chart state persistence is done for you automatically
Printed Page - This easiest way to obtain a printed diagram is to render your chart control via the XtraPrinting Library (one line of code)
Banded Report - If you must embed charts into banded reports, you can do so with the XtraReports Suite

3D Chart Types - Based on the 3D charting engine, we have built the following most frequently used 3D view types:

• Manhattan Bar view
• Line View
• Step Line View
• Area View
• Stacked Area View
• Full-Stacked Area View
• Pie View

The 3D charting engine offers you the following benefits:

• True OpenGL rendering. Since OpenGL has proven its stability and power, you can be sure to get less bugs and life-like pictures with real light sources, real shadows and flares
• End-user chart rotation. You toggle a single property to allow end-users rotate a chart in any direction by simply clicking and dragging. Thus, you don't have to guess which rotation angle to specify in order to make the entire chart's content visible. You simply make your chart and end-users will be able to view it from any perspective
• Full anti-aliasing support.An advanced multi-stage smoothing algorithm is included so that there are always clean and sharp lines and no rough edges
• Perspective projection support. You can change the viewing angle to control how big front objects appear relatively to background objects. This can enhance your chart's readability in certain cases
• Gradient fill and texture support
• Transparency support

2D Chart Views

• Bar View
• Stacked Bar View
• 100% Stacked Bar View
• Column View
• Stacked Column View
• 100% Stacked Column View
• Range Bar View
• Side-by-Side Range Bar View
• Gantt View
• Side-by-Side Gantt View
• Point View
• Line View
• Step Line View
• Area View
• Stacked Area View
• 100% Stacked Area View
• Pie View
• Candle Stick View
• Stock View
• Radar Point View
• Radar Line View
• Radar Area View
• Polar Point View
• Polar Line View
• Polar Area View

Multiple and Different Series in One Diagram - Over time, you may encounter the need to display multiple series within the same diagram. XtraCharts Suite has been engineered to provide you with maximum flexibility in this regard. In fact, you are never limited to using the same view for each series within your diagram.

End-User Scrolling and Zooming - Both 2D and 3D charts now fully support end-user scrolling and zooming operations.

Axis Features - Charts display an argument axis and a value axis by default. You can additionally create as many X and Y axes as you need. Each individual series can use its own axes for visual representation. Thus, you can visually compare trends of multiple series within a single diagram, even if series values differ greatly.

You can access each axis individually and customize the following aspects of their appearance:

• Visibility
• Tickmarks - you can specify whether to show major and minor tickmarks, their length and thickness, and whether they should cross the axis
• Direction - you can reverse any axis to display a right-to-left or bottom-to-top chart, if needed
• Title - any explanatory text can be displayed next to an axis
• Value Range - if you aren't satisfied with auto-specified value ranges, you can set them manually
• Value Formatting - you can apply any numeric or date-time format to text labels displayed for major tickmarks
• Custom Labels - instead of using auto-generated values, you can display your own labels at manually specified positions

Diagram Features - Readability is a crucial aspect of any well designed chart and capabilities hae been engineered into the XtraCharts Suite to maximize this all important reality. For instance, you can mark the most relevant areas or critical levels within the chart thus pointing the user's attention to specific issues within their business. You can also customize the diagram's appearance aspects for decoration purposes. The following list describes the features available to you in this regard:

• Major and Minor Grid Lines - specify their visibility, thickness and color
• Interlaced Appearance - the diagram can have alternating appearances starting with each major tick mark either horizontally or vertically
• Constant Lines - you can mark critical values, allowed minimums and maximums or other important values by displaying horizontal or vertical constant lines
• Strips - In addition to the display of constant lines, you can mark up entire horizontal or vertical regions to make a chart more representative
• Background Image and Shadows - add a unique look to your diagram by using advanced appearance customization settings

Legend Features - A legend makes it easier for end-users to determine the meaning of what they see within a chart. Legends display small glyphs that identify visual elements and captions that describe the meaning of these elements. The XtraCharts Suite allows you to display the following elements within a chart: series, individual points, strips and constant lines. You can specify whether a particular element should be displayed within the legend using that element's ShowInLegend property. With the XtraCharts Suite you can customize the following aspects of legend appearance:

• Visibility
• Position - a legend can be located in any corner or at the center of any edge of the diagram. You can also specify whether it should be located inside or outside of the diagram
• Glyph Size and Visibility
• Legend Item Arrangement - you can arrange legend items vertically or horizontally
• Border and Shadow

Label Features - The XtraCharts Suite allows you to display a label for each data point. These labels can display either the point's value, argument (useful for pie charts), both argument and value or a series name. You can customize the following label appearance aspects:

• Visibility
• Connector Line's Angle and Length
• Appearance and Shadow

Title Features - You can display an unlimited number of titles within a single chart. For each individual title, you can customize the following appearance attributes:

• Position within the chart
• Text Alignment
• Distance to the Diagram
• Colors, Fonts, etc.

Design-Time Features - Elements that can be accessed directly on the form include:

• Diagram
• Axes that provide access to custom labels, strips, etc.
• Constant lines
• Legend and titles
• Series and series point labels
• The chart control itself

If you are new to XtraCharts and need to get up to speed fast, we provide a chart wizard that allows you to customize the main elements of a given chart. This dialog is automatically invoked each time you drop a chart control onto a form but can also be invoked at any time if you prefer using a traditional design-time customization dialog versus on-form object access.

Data Binding and Exchange

• Both Unbound and Bound Modes at Your Service
• Create Individual Series or Use Series Templates

Print and Export Data - If you own the XtraPrinting Library, you can easily export your chart to:

• An image file (BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, WMF, EMF file formats are supported)
• A PDF file
• An image embedded into an HTML page
• An image embedded into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
• A printed page

If you need printed or web reports with charting capabilities, consider using the XtraReports Suite. This reporting suite now includes an XRChart control - built upon the XtraCharts engine so that you can deliver advanced charting capabilities within your reports.

Appearance Customization

• Appearance Customization for Individual Elements
• Multiple Built-in Palettes for Automatic Series Coloring
• Custom painting is fully supported