Chart Appearance

The Chart's appearance can be customized by setting the individual chart element properties. The rich styles architecture available for the ChartControl provides formatting options at both point level and series level.

Essential Chart supports 3D mode for all chart types except Polar and Radar charts.

The depth of the axis in Z-axes can be customized through the Depth property.

The Real Mode option displays the chart in a 3D plane. Users can also use the Rotation or Tilt properties to rotate the control programmatically.

Essential Chart provides support for Clustered view in 3D modes. This effect shows the Z-axis data extended in the third dimension as clusters are displayed in the foreground.

Spacing Between Data Series

Spacing helps to customize the space between the columns to give the chart an uncluttered look. The spacing is calculated as a percentage and the default percentage value is 10.

Increased spacing between the columns will in turn reduce the width of a column.

Spacing Between Data Series-3D MOde

There is also support to control the spacing between data series in 3D mode. Spacing is set as a percentage value of the z-axis depth of a column.

Essential Chart supports rendering the chart in different ways using SmoothingMode property in chart control. The default option is AntiAlias. AntiAliasing smoothes the jagged lines of the graphical output.

Alpha Blending aides in making a series visible through another as illustrated below:

The layout and background of the ChartControl can be customized.

Render professional-looking charts with gradient colors in the chart interior and other chart areas.

Essential Chart supports 13 different border styles. The interior style and the size of the chart border can also be customized.

Border customization options are also available for the data points in a Chart data series.

Customized fonts can be rendered for all the texts appearing on the chart.

Default color-palettes will be applied on the chart data points unless custom colors are specified for the data series.

These built-in palettes offer a rich set of colors to render professional looking charts.

Custom Palettes

Essential Chart also lets you define and add custom palettes.

Shadow effect can be applied to Chart Area and data series. The shadow effect is illustrated in the chart below:

Symbols can be associated with each data series to highlight the data points. The built-in symbol options available for ChartControl are:

• Circle
• Cross
• Horizontal Line
• vertical Line
• Diamond
• Square
• Triangle
• Inverted Triangle
• Hexagon
• Pentagon
• Star
• Image

Customization options are available for symbol size and color.

There is also an option to specify custom symbols in place of the built-in symbols.

RTL Support

Chart supports rendering data points from right-to-left to incorporate local standards.

String Localization

All built-in strings that are rendered by the Chart control can also be localized using localization binaries.