Essential Chart adds MVC3 support

Released: Feb 9, 2011

Updates in this release

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

ASP.NET

  • Rotated label text can now be displayed in an EPS image.
  • An EPS image can now be displayed with a transparent background.
  • ChartCoordinates-type custom points can be rendered in multiple axes.
  • An Overflow exception no longer occurs when setting a small value to an axis range.
  • ChartCoordinates-type custom points now render properly in a radar chart axis.
  • A background image URL is no longer empty for HScrollBar and VScrollBar.
  • The Chart control no longer flickers during design time.
  • The script error for HScrollBar and VScrollBar has been fixed.

ASP.NET MVC

  • MVC3 support has been added.

Windows Forms

  • Rotated label text can now be displayed in an EPS image.
  • An interactive cursor can now be drawn separately, either horizontally or vertically.
  • An EPS image can be now displayed with a transparent background.
  • ChartCoordinates-type custom points will now be shown correctly on multiple axes.
  • An Overflow exception no longer occurs when setting a small value to an axis range.
  • ChartCoordinates-type custom points will now render properly in a radar chart axis.
  • The ChartDock control will now be aligned to the right of a chart in print preview.
  • The cursor will not change when moving over chart types in the Chart Wizard.
  • No more exception occurs when the chart control has more than one legend while plotting the print preview

WPF

  • A new Property Window dialog with an Excel-like UI now helps you modify most chart properties, as well as the inner control, during run time.
  • Serialization support has been included in Essential Chart for WPF, allowing you to serialize a chart into an XAML string

Silverlight

  • Small tick lines will now be displayed for data on the primary axis.
  • Series interior opacity no longer changes in multiple areas when IsZoomable is set on the ChartSeries control.
  • The issue with chart skins for Office 2007 has been fixed.
  • The y-axis now supports DateTime values.
  • Polar and radar chart points now render properly.
  • An "Invalid Operation" exception no longer occurs when moving the pointer over a FastScatter chart type.
  • The last gridline and small tick lines now render correctly.
  • The x-axis label now renders given values properly.