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Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:26 AM

MS Chart Control: Getting Started

Scott Mitchell wrote a great series of articles where he describes how to use Microsoft Chart control from simple binding to more complex scenarious. I highly recommend to read his articles for everybody starting working on the control: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/072209-1.aspx
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:33 AM

Setting Microsoft Chart Series Colors

Microsoft Chart control provides different ways to set color of the series and data points: Palettes Selecting one of the predefined palettes is the easiest way to change chart series colors. There are 12 built-in palettes with about 10 unique colors
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Monday, July 27, 2009 2:28 AM

MS Chart Layout Helper

MS Chart consists of different elements (like titles, legends, chart areas, …) which all share the same space in the chart. It is easy to make a ‘perfect’ layout of these elements when you know exactly how many you will have and what size they going to
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Friday, March 27, 2009 6:51 PM

Displaying Categorical Axis Labels.

In this post I will discuss labeling of the categorical axes in SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) and .NET Chart controls. Same engine is used between these two products and they have exactly the same behavior. You can find detailed steps and sample code
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Friday, March 27, 2009 5:35 AM

Aligning Multiple Series with Categorical Values

Binding Categorical Data Overview Binding chart to the data source with categorical values is pretty simple and usually requires just one line of code: Chart1.Series[ "Series1" ].Points.DataBind(mySource, "ProductName" , "Sales" ); It is important to
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Friday, February 27, 2009 6:45 PM

Deploying Microsoft Chart Controls

MSChart.exe setup should be used to deploy Microsoft Chart controls but what exactly need to be done to create a deployment package in Visual Studio? Visual Studio provides an easy way to add the prerequisites using bootstrappers, and thanks to Phil Preen,
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:42 AM

Data Binding Microsoft Chart Control

Overview When you add a new visualization in your application, the very first thing you do, is bind it to the data. Microsoft Chart control allows many different ways of populating data in the chart and it is important to understand the differences between
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Monday, January 12, 2009 7:56 PM

Using Chart HTTP Handler

Delian Tchoparinov just posted on his blog about chart image rendering using Chart HTTP Handlers. This is very useful reading for everybody using the ASP.NET version of the Microsoft Chart control. You can find this post here . Alex.
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 3:49 PM

Chart SharePoint Web Part

You can easily create charting SharePoint Web Part using new Microsoft Chart Control . Wictor Wilen created a " ChartPart for SharePoint " project on Codeplex, which is a ready to use WebPart with source code. If you want to create your own WebPart also
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:12 AM

Microsoft Chart Control How-to: Improve Chart Performance

There are several main areas that affect performance of the chart: Data binding. Rendering of the chart visual elements. Streaming chart image from the server to the client. ( ASP.NET only ) The following chart scenarios may have a major impact on performance
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:57 PM

Microsoft Chart Control How-to: Add Rich Content Using Keywords

Adding Labels or Tooltips is a simple task in the chart, but what if we want to show more data than just a simple data point value? Keywords allows specifying rich content for many text based properties, so that you can build a tooltip as shown in this
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Friday, November 07, 2008 7:32 PM

Microsoft Chart Control vs. Dundas Chart Control

I get a lot of questions about 'relationship' of our Microsoft Chart Control to the well known Dundas Data Visualization controls. You can definitely see the similarities in the features, appearance, APIs and demos we use. So I will start with a little
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:09 AM

Creating 'small' charts with Microsoft Chart Control

Designing a chart when you have limited space available or when it's size can be dynamically changed usually requires additional planning. I've been playing with a way to display sample data in a 300 by 500 pixels chart and here what I came up with: Figure
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