Chart Legend Customization 
The Chart legend is the portion of the display showing an entry for each of the data series added to the ChartControl. Essential Chart by default displays a legend with information on each series that has been plotted on the chart. It offers extensive customization of the legend. The position of the legend on the chart area as well as its representation aspects can be completely customized. The default legend items that get shown can also be customized through events. This article focuses on various properties and methods of chart legends that show how a Chart can be customized to provide more flexibility and look and feel.
Chart series Customization
ChartSeries are the elements present inside the chart area. It acts as a wrapper around data that is to be displayed and associates styles with the data. Essential Chart offers numerous appearance and behavior customization capabilities at the series level and on individual points.
In this article we will illustrate how the various properties and methods of Essential Chart are used to format and customize chart series and data points.
Import and Export Chart
The Chart provides a simple API to let you populate it with any kind of data, provided you bring that data from the datastore into the runtime. You can then either populate the chart with that data or bind the chart to the DataTable or DataSet, which contains the data.
In this article we will illustrate how the data from certain data stores can be brought to the runtime and bound to the chart. In a way this deals more with extracting data from the mentioned data stores than any support in Chart, for binding to such data stores. This article also explains about exporting chart as image to different format.
User Interactivity
Always there exists a need to interact with the chart either to get or set some values or to change the appearance dynamically and feel the look at run time. This includes moving the cursor and read the co ordinates, zooming, modify using toolbar or gets some tool tip text. Essential Chart provides support for working with chart at runtime.
This article focuses on exploring various features of Essential Chart that helps the user to interact directly with Chart at run time.
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