Charts News

Customize JavaScript Bullet Charts

January 10, 2024
Syncfusion Essential Studio JavaScript 2023 Volume 4 allows users to easily customize bullet chart value and target bar colors, enhancing clarity.

Syncfusion Essential Studio JavaScript, available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise, is a comprehensive UI library offering over 80 high-performance, lightweight, and responsive components to transform your web apps. Built from scratch with TypeScript, it boasts modularity and touch-friendliness, letting you pick and choose specific features while ensuring smooth mobile interaction. With rich themes, global accessibility features, and extensive documentation, it powers everything from basic buttons to interactive charts and data grids, simplifying frontend development across JavaScript, Angular, React, and Vue.

Version 2023 Volume 4 (24.1.41) adds the ability to customize your bullet charts by assigning specific colors to individual value and target bars. Bullet charts are a concise and data-rich visualization tool ideal for dashboards and performance presentations. They efficiently display several key metrics within a single bar, allowing for swift comparison between a primary measure, target values, and qualitative performance ranges. By combining visual cues like color and bar lengths, bullet charts enable rapid interpretation of data, making them perfect for decision-makers who need to grasp complex information at a glance.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2023 Volume 4 (24.1.41), see our release notes.

Syncfusion Essential Studio JavaScript is available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise which is licensed per developer starting with a Team License of up to five developers. It is available as a 12 Month Timed Subscription License which includes support and maintenance. See our Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Syncfusion Essential Studio JavaScript product page.

Add Candlestick Charts to Your WinForms Apps

January 4, 2024
Candlestick charts visually capture price movement, open/close, and highs/lows, revealing market sentiment and trading opportunities.

Candlestick charts are a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency. Each "candlestick" typically shows one day, with the central "box" representing the range between the opening and closing prices and the lines showing highs and lows. Their unique visual format helps traders to quickly understand market sentiment.

Several WinForms chart controls offer Candlestick charts including:

  • DevExpress WinForms Chart (part of DevExpress WinForms) provides precision control over every candlestick aspect, from shadows to wicks, ideal for technical analysis.
  • ComponentOne Charts for WinForms (part of ComponentOne Studio WinForms) includes built-in candlestick templates and financial indicators that accelerate market analysis.
  • Telerik Windows Forms ChartView (part of Telerik UI for WinForms) provides streamlined candlestick rendering with smooth zooming/panning, ideal for dynamic trading platforms.
  • Syncfusion WinForms Chart (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) offers extensive customization options that let you tailor candlesticks to your trading needs.
  • LightningChart .NET provides fast candlestick updates that keep you ahead of the market, perfect for real-time trading dashboards.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our WinForms chart controls comparison.

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.netCHARTING Adds Support for .NET 8

January 2, 2024
Display large amounts of dynamically generated chart data quickly and easily in your .NET 8 apps.

.netCHARTING provides a managed charting solution for C# and VB.NET developers working with ASP.NET or WinForms. It combines visually stunning graphics and a comprehensive interface that help add compelling charts to your apps. This high performance charting control also contains a feature rich data access and aggregation system with calculation support.

The .netCHARTING V10.6 release adds support for .NET 8. This allows developers to enjoy the performance boosts, enhanced cross-platform compatibility, and new APIs in the latest version of Microsoft's popular development framework.

.netCHARTING is licensed per site (1 web site on 1 sever), per server (unlimited web sites on 1 server) or per developer (single application) and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month subscription which includes major and minor upgrades and priority email support. See our .netCHARTING licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our .netCHARTING product page.

Add Financial Charts to Your Vue.js Apps

December 28, 2023
Give users a concise overview of price movement over time with open-high-low-close (OHLC) charts. Compare leading solutions for Vue.js.

Financial apps can be significantly enriched by integrating open-high-low-close charts. These versatile visualizations condense price movement data into clear, concise bars, empowering users to rapidly grasp market trends and identify potential trading opportunities. With a quick glance, users can assess open, high, low, and closing prices within a chosen timeframe, gaining valuable insights into market sentiment and volatility. This immediate understanding fosters informed decision-making, transforming your Vue.js app into a dynamic platform for financial analysis and informed action.

Several Vue.js chart controls offer OHLC charts including:

  • DevExtreme Chart (part of DevExtreme by DevExpress) lets users decode market movements with interactive OHLC bars, dynamic indicators, and crosshair navigation.
  • Highcharts Stock by Highsoft helps you master price action with advanced OHLC candlesticks, volume analysis, and powerful technical indicators.
  • FusionCharts Suite XT lets users make informed decisions with feature-rich OHLC charts, including price gaps, volume indicators, and trendlines.
  • amCharts5 : Charts provides granular insights from comprehensive OHLC charts, featuring range bars, price bands, and brush selection for deep analysis.
  • AnyChart JS elevates your app's visual appeal with sleek OHLC charts, customizable tooltips, and dynamic animations for a captivating trading experience.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Vue.js chart controls comparison.

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Easily Zoom Selected Chart Areas

December 20, 2023
DevExpress Blazor 23.2 lets users home in on areas of interest in your charts with a click and drag gesture, allowing deeper analysis.

DevExpress Blazor (part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) helps you create high-impact user experiences for both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly using C#. The Blazor UI Component Library ships with a comprehensive set of native components (including a DataGrid, Pivot Grid, Scheduler, Chart, Data Editors and Reporting).

The DevExpress Blazor 23.2 release enhances data analysis with chart zooming functionality. This new feature empowers users to home in on specific areas of interest by clicking and dragging within your charts, unlocking a deeper level of granularity and precision. Users can uncover subtle trends, pinpoint anomalous data points, and dissect complex patterns that might otherwise remain obscured.

To see a full list of what's new in version 23.2, see our release notes.

DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor licensing page for full details.

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