ComponentOne Chart for WinForms Features

• Easy to use - A point-and-click user interface is available both during development, and at run time. Both developers and end-users have maximum flexibility to easily customize charts
• VS2010, .NET Framework 4.0 Compatible.
• Chart types - Area, bar, bubble, candlestick, hi-low-open-close, pie, plot, polar, radar, ribbon, scatter, stacking area, stacking bar, surface, and more. From scientific information to stock market data, there's a chart for every need
• Unicode - ComponentOne have included 2D and 3D Unicode controls to allow multiple language support in a single applicationAlarm zones
• You can now use background bands of color or pattern to demarcate significant Y values in charts
• Flexible labels - Chart labels and annotations can be positioned anywhere. Multi-line chart labels are unlimited and can be attached to data displayed in the graph or to graph or pixel coordinates
• Tunable auto-precision axis - The axis precision is automatically adjusted to fit the data
• Code-free data binding - Bind your chart to an external data source to chart data directly in its native format
• Web-friendly output - ComponentOne Chart for WinForms can be saved in JPEG or PNG format for easy display on web pages
• Background images - Customize the look of your chart. You can display any image in the chart background to give your chart a custom look and feel
• Mouse tracking - Mouse tracking capabilities keep track of the region, series, or data point under the mouse pointer. The MouseMove event of .NET reports the coordinates of the user's cursor as they drag it over the chart. From this event you can get constantly updating data on where the user's cursor is located. ComponentOne Chart for WinForms contains a set of methods that when used in conjunction with. NETs MouseMove event allow the programmer to create interesting application-specific features like handling a double-click in the legend, or chart tool tips
• Double buffering - Double buffering makes use of an off-screen memory area to help reduce flicker when doing screen updates
• Copying data - Instead of copying data to the chart point-by-point, ComponentOne Chart allows you to copy entire arrays, which means an increase in performance
• Multiple format image generation

ComponentOne Chart for WinForms 2D Features

• Multiple symbol types - Choose from various symbol types to represent different series of data
• Chart types - X-Y Plot, Area, Bar, High-Low, High-Low-Open-Close, Candle, Bubble, Pie, Radar, and Polar charts provide various ways to display data
• Stacking charts - X-Y Plot, Area, Bar, Radar, and Plot charts can be stacked to display more complex data in a smaller space
• Interactive wizard - The Chart2D Wizard was designed to allow an easy and interactive way to create and modify chart properties. It displays the chart properties step by step, permitting the construction or modification of a chart in a progressive and logical manner
• Legend - Take complete control over the legend appearance. The order of entries in the legend can be reversed, and single-line legend titles can be added
• Annotations - Annotations can be rotated to arbitrary angles
• CopyDataIn - The CopyDataIn method accepts the DATE parameter type

ComponentOne Chart for WinForms 3D Features

• Built-in zooming, scaling and rotation - Users can dynamically customize views by dragging the mouse on the graph. Users can view a preview cube or the entire graph during rotation, scaling or zooming
• Various 3D chart types - Chart types include Surface, bar, and scatter charts that provide various ways to effectively display your data
• Automatically generate contours and zones from data - To generate contours and zones, the ComponentOne Chart for WinForms analyzes the data and based on the number of levels specified, creates the following: A linear distribution table that contains the Z-value that marks each level, An assignment of ContourStyles from the 100 built-in styles, The chart determines which styles to use by evenly distributing its 100 styles through the number of levels
• Interactive viewing - This feature allows both the programmer and the end user (at run-time) to utilize chart rotation, shift and zoom. Using keyboard/mouse combinations, you can perform different interactions. These interactions can be customized (from the default settings) by the programmer to give their end users the ability to interact with the chart area
• Transparent data plotting - Use the Chart3DElevation Transparency property to set transparency. Your data will appear transparent, leaving the chart area behind the chart data visible
• 4D charts capability - By setting the 4D Data Menu item, the chart is able to show a 4D chart, which means that different data is used for plotting and contouring
• Interactive wizard - The Chart3D Wizard was designed to allow an easy and interactive way to create and modify chart properties. It displays the chart properties step by step, permitting the construction or modification of a chart in a progressive and logical manner
• Legend - You can use custom levels, filtered, or single-line legend titles
• Enhanced grid line display - Grid lines can be assigned to line styles, including individual colors
• Flexible data layout - Regular or irregular data structures can be selected
• Borders - Select from an array of border styles including solid, raised, raised 3d, 3d inset, 3draised bevel, 3d inset bevel, groove (inset + Raised), fillet (raised + inset), double, and dashed