Create stunning business-oriented charts

The chart control 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, providing extensive customization. They can be inherited from parent charts, making complex formatting relatively easy.

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 application programming interface (API) that is both powerful and easy to use.

• Chart and Data Wizard
• Chart Real-Time and Recorder
• Smart Labels
• Template Support
• Unlimited Data Points
• Unlimited Data Series
• Zooming and Scrolling
• Panning support for Zoomed chart
• Chart Localization support

Chart Data

Essential Chart can handle data in different ways. You can simply add data points to a series and let the chart manage it; alternatively, you can use the built-in ChartDataBindModel and specify the column names containing the X and Y values to easily bind data to a data set. For added flexibility, implement the simple IChartSeriesModel interface and plug in your custom model.

• Custom Data Model
• Data Binding to a Data Set
• Axis Label Binding
• Default Data Population
• LINQ Support
• Excel Importing and Exporting

Chart Type

Essential Chart offers more than 35 chart types, ranging from simple column charts to complex financial charts, which can be easily configured to suit the needs of any user. All charts, except radar and polar charts, can be rendered in 3-D mode.

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

Chart Appearance

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

• 3-D Mode
• Alpha Blending
• Anti-Alising
• Built-in-Skins
• Chart Area and Series Shadow Effect
• Chart Background
• Chart Border
• Chart Font
• Chart Interior
• Chart Symbol
• Clustered Mode
• Color Palette
• Localization
• Series Border
• Spacing Effect
• Multiple Pies

Axis Features

By default, the chart control comes with two primary axes: X and Y. The chart control's framework also provides complete support for the inclusion of multiple x- and y-axes.

• Automatic Range Scaling
• Axes Multiple Layout
• Axis Label Font
• Axis Label Orientation
• Axis Line
• Axis Strip Line
• Axis Ticks
• Chart Axis Label
• Custom Axis Origin
• Custom Axis Range
• Custom Polar Axis Range
• Grid Lines
• Inverted Axis
• Logarithmic Axis
• Opposed Axis
• Scale Break
• Secondary Axis
• Custom Polar Axis

Title and Data Legend Appearance

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

• Chart Multiple Titles
• Chart Title Alignment
• Chart Title Position
• Legend Background Image
• Legend Border with Different Styles
• Legend Dock and Alignment
• Legend Item Alignment
• Legend Representation Type
• Legend Shadow Effect
• Legend Title Font and Color
• Legend Visible Check Box
• Multiple Chart Legends
• Title Font Size and Color

Export Options

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

• Export as Image
• Export to DocIO
• Export to Grid
• Export to Excel
• Export to PDF
• Export to SVG
• Print Support

Interactive Elements

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

• AutoHighlight
• Chart Get Value
• Chart Host Control
• Context Menu
• Drag-and-Drop Series Points
• Interactive Cursor
• Toolbar
• ToolTip
• Series Highlight

Alter Series Data and Style

The chart control 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, providing extensive customization. They can be inherited from parent charts, making complex formatting relatively easy.

• Chart with Grid Interaction
• Custom Point
• Data Grouping
• Data Point Symbol
• Data Point Text
• Empty Point
• Series in a Chart Control
• Statistical Formula Support