General Features

ASP.NET 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 sports an object-oriented API that is both powerful and easy to use.

Users can add an unlimited number of data series to the Essential chart. The control is optimized to handle such large sets of data.

Users can add an unlimited number of data points to a chart series. The chart control is optimized to handle such huge sets of data.

The Chart Wizard simlifies Chart Control setup in Design-Time. The Chart Control fetures of the wizard are listed below:

• Chart Type - The chart type and style can be previewed and selected on Chart Wizard.
• Chart Series - Lets you visually set up Data Binding with a DataSet.
• Appearance - Configure the style and appearance of the different portions of the chart on Chart Wizard.
• Axes - Includes options for editing the axes and axes label properties.
• Data Legend - The style and appearance of the data legend can be customized.

Provide users great flexibility by enabling the built-in Zoom and Scroll features of the Chart. Users can then simply select and drag an area on the chart to zoom in.

Once the image is magnified, scrollbars will appear to let the user view areas beyond the boundaries of the displayed image. Optionally, you can hide these scrollbars and use the Zoom Out button to let users revert to the original image.

Smart Label is a built-in optimization technique that prevents data point labels from overlapping when rendered with data points on the chart. The advantage of using smart label is illustrated below:

Standardize the style and appearance of the charts you create in design-time as well as in runtime on a template and apply the same styleto a new chart by loading the template.

Load the Chart template on Chart designer using the Chart Template Wizard

Save and load chart templates programmatically with simple API as shown below:

The Chart control supports automatic refresh at specified time-intervals using callbacks. Set the RefreshFrequency property to the required time-interval and the RefreshCallback event to provides updated chart content.