General Features

Essential Chart is a powerful Data Visualization tool that helps you generate professional graphs and charts. It supports a large variety of chart types and comes with an object-oriented API that is both powerful and easy to use.

Unlimited number of series	Unlimited number of data points in a series
Chart Wizard	Zooming And Scrolling
Smart Labels	Template Support
AJAX Support

Chart Data

Essential Chart can handle data in different ways. You can simply add the data points to a series and let the Chart manage it. Or, for easier data-binding to a DataSet, use the built-in *ChartDataBindModel* and specify the column names containing the X and Y values. For even more flexibility, you can implement the simple *IChartSeriesModel* interface and plug-in your own custom model.

Default Data Population	DataBinding To DataSet
Custom Data Models	Data From To Excel
LINQ Support

Chart Types

Essential Chart offers more than 35 chart types ranging from simple Column charts to complex Financial charts, all of which can be easily configured to suit users needs. Charts can also be rendered in 3D mode, except for the Radar and Polar Charts.

Area Charts	Bar Charts
Column Charts	Line Charts
Financial Charts	Pie and Doughnut Chart
Bubble and Scatter Charts	Accumulation Charts
Circular Charts	Combination Charts

Visual Appearance

The Chart's visual appearance can be customized, by setting the properties for individual chart elements. The rich styles architecture, available for the ChartControl, provides formatting options at point level as well as series level.

3D Modes	Spacing Effects
Antialiasing	Alpha Blending
Chart Background	Chart Interior
Chart Border	Chart Font
Color Palette	Chart Area and Series Shadow Effect
Chart Symbols	Localization

Axes Features

The ChartControl by default comes with the primary axes - X and Y. The ChartControl framework also provides complete support for the inclusion of multiple X and Y axes.

Gridlines	Axes Line Type feature
Axes Ticks	Axes Label Font Size And Color
Axes Label Rotate	Automatic Range Scaling
Custom Axes Ranges	Chart Axis Labels
Opposed Axes	Inverted Axes
Secondary Axes	Axes Custom Origin
Logarithmic Axes	Axes Striplines

Visual Elements

A Chart Legend which is a symbol based caption is rendered for each series in chart, by default. There is also support for adding custom legends. There is also plenty of look and feel customization options. The chart title can also be fully customized, including but not limited to the font, color, size, position and alignment.

Legend Dock And Alignment	Legend Border With Different Styles
Legend Title Font And Color	Legend Shadow Effect
Legend Representation Type	Legend Visible CheckBox
Legend Background Image	Legend Item Alignment
Title font size and color	Chart Title Position
Chart Title Alignment

Export

Essential Chart supports exporting of the chart control into various formats. Users can also print the chart data.

Export chart as an Image	Export chart to PDF
Export chart to Excel	Export chart to SVG
Export chart to DocIO	Export chart to Grid

User Interaction

User interaction adds to the appeal of any control. Keeping this in mind the ChartControl has been designed to be completely user - friendly and easily applicable for user interactions.

AutoHighlight	Drag Drop Series points
Interactive Cursor	Tooltip
Toolbar	Context Menu
Chart Get Value

Series Data And Style Manipulation

The ChartControl comes with a rich styles architecture, which separates the display styles from the data model, providing flexibility in the appearance definition for each display element. Styles form the core of the Chart Control, in providing extensive customization. They can be inherited from parent charts, making complex formatting relatively easy.

Series In ChartControl	Empty Points
Custom Points	Statistical Formula Support
Chart Point Symbol Style	Chart Point Text Style
Data Grouping	Chart With Grid Interaction