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Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC

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Create stunning business-oriented charts.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC is a business-oriented charting component. It offers an innovative data object model that makes it easy to populate a chart with any kind of data source. Essential Chart features an advanced styles architecture that simplifies complex multilevel formatting.

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

Chart Data

Essential Chart can handle data in different ways. You can add data points to a series and let the chart manage them. Alternatively, you can achieve easier data binding to a data set using the built-in ChartDataBindModel control, and you can specify column names containing the x- and y-coordinate values. For additional flexibility, you can implement the IChartSeriesModel interface and plug-in a custom model.

Chart Type

More than 35 chart types, ranging from simple column charts to complex financial charts, are offered in Essential Chart. They can be configured to suit any need, and all, with the exception of radar and polar charts, can be rendered in 3-D mode.

Chart Appearance

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

Axis Features

The default Chart control settings include the primary x- and y-axes. The chart framework also provides complete support for the inclusion of multiple x- and y-axes.

Chart Legend Appearance

A chart legend is a symbol-based caption rendered by default for each series in a chart. Custom chart legends are supported, and customization options for legend appearance are available as well. Essential Chat also supports multiple chart legends.

Alter Series Data and Style

The Chart control comes with a rich style architecture that separates the display styles from the data model and provides flexibility in the appearance and definition of each display element. Style forms the core of the Chart control and provides extensive customization. Style can be inherited from a parent chart, making complex formatting relatively easy.

Chart Export

Essential Chart can easily export data in multiple ways: as image files, Word documents, PDFs, and spreadsheets.

Chart Zooming

Essential Chart supports a zooming feature for ASP.NET MVC. To enable zooming along the x-axis, use the EnableXZooming property; to enable zooming along the y-axis, use the EnableYZooming property. The Chart control can be zoomed by setting the zoom factor on the server side, or through user interaction.

Chart Printing

Essential Chart supports printing in different ways: by just double-clicking the Print button, or calling the PrintingImage function on the client side.

Chart Type - Area chart

Chart Type - Area chart

Chart Type - Column Chart

Chart Type - Column Chart

Chart Type - Radar Chart

Chart Type - Radar Chart

Chart Type - Polar Chart

Chart Type - Polar Chart

Pie Chart

Pie Chart

Gantt Chart

Gantt Chart

Axis Customization

Axis Customization

Chart Adornment

Chart Adornment

Custom Data Points

Custom Data Points

Inverted Axis

Inverted Axis

Legend Customization

Legend Customization

Chart Data Binding

Chart Data Binding

Chart Zooming

Chart Zooming

Chart Printing

Chart Printing
Development Environments
  • Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
  • Visual Studio Team System 2008
  • Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
  • Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition
  • Visual Web Developer® 2008 Express Edition
.NET Framework versions
  • .NET 4.0
  • .NET 3.5
ASP.NET MVC Framework versions
  • ASP.NET MVC 2.0
  • ASP.NET MVC 1.0
Operating Systems
  • Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit)
  • Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit)
  • Windows Vista (32 bit and 64 bit)
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
Web Servers
  • IIS 6.0+
  • Visual Studio built-in web server for development
Browser Support
  • Internet Explorer 7+
  • Mozilla 2.0+
  • Safari 3.0 +
  • Opera 9+
  • Chrome 1+