Essential Chart for Windows Forms

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Export Options

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

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.

Alter Series Data and Style

Custom Label

Multiple Axes

Export the Chart

Chart Toolbar

Grouping Label

Huge Data handling

Live Chart

Multi Titles

Watermark

Chart Background

Custom Axis Origin

Data from dataBase

Axis Label Bind

Gantt Chart

LINQ Datasource

Multi Chart legend

Development Environments	Visual Studio 2008 (Team, Professional, Standard and Express) Visual Studio 2005 (Team, Professional, Standard and Express) Borland Delphi for .NET SharpCode
.NET Framework versions	All current versions of the .NET framework are supported (.NET 3.5/2.0)
Operating Systems	Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows Vista (32 bit and 64 bit) Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows 2000

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