---
title: "What’s New in the SfChart Control for Volume 1"
published_at: "2015-05-20T16:49:00+00:00"
modified_at: "2018-10-04T09:45:31+00:00"
url: "https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/whats-new-in-the-sfchart-control-for-volume-1"
excerpt: "The recent release of Essential Studio® Volume 1 introduced several new features and enhancements for the WPF Chart control. Some of the major highlights include making bitmap series interactive, allowing series templates to be customized, and adding APIs for tooltips,..."
taxonomy_category:
  - "Chart"
  - "Company"
  - "Essential Studio"
---

# What’s New in the SfChart Control for Volume 1

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![Image](https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/whatsnew_sfchartcontrol.png)

The recent release of [Essential Studio® Volume 1](https://www.syncfusion.com/products/whatsnew)
 introduced several new features and enhancements for the WPF Chart control. Some of the major highlights include making bitmap series interactive, allowing series templates to be customized, and adding APIs for tooltips, adornments, and annotations.

To make bitmap series interactive, selection and tooltip support have been provided. We added the selection enhancement by extending [SelectionBehavior](http://help.syncfusion.com/ug/wpf/Documents/selection.htm)
 to all the series types—such as **Scatter**, ** Bubble**, and ** HiLo**—and also to bitmap series, such as ** FastLineBitmapSeries** and ** FastScatterBitmapSeries**.

![clip_image002_thumb\[5\]](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/image-413.png "clip_image002_thumb[5]")

*Fast Candle Series with Selection*

For continuous series like **Line**, ** Area**, and ** Spline**, the selection cannot be illustrated, so the selection has been enabled for [Adornments](http://help.syncfusion.com/ug/wpf/Documents/adornments.htm)
 as well. However, the selection events are invoked irrespective of the adornments’ existence.

![clip_image004_thumb\[2\]](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/image-414.png "clip_image004_thumb[2]")

*Line Series with Adornments Highlighted on Selection*

The tooltip enhancement allows tooltips to be displayed for bitmap series types.

![clip_image006_thumb\[2\]](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/image-415.png "clip_image006_thumb[2]")

*Fast-Line Bitmap Series with Tooltip*

Another highlight of this release is template support for all common chart types—the [CustomTemplate](http://help.syncfusion.com/ug/wpf/index.html#!Documents/customizeseries.htm)
 feature enhancement. Template customization is provided for all commonly used chart types: 11 series types like **Scatter**, ** Bubble**, ** Bar**, etc.

![clip_image008_thumb\[2\]](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/image-416.png "clip_image008_thumb[2]")

*Scatter Series with Custom Shape*

![clip_image010_thumb\[2\]](https://blog.syncfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/image-417.png "clip_image010_thumb[2]")

*Bar Series with Custom Template*

Several new customization properties are available for tooltips and adornments. Earlier adornments did not have any direct APIs for customizing properties like background, foreground, and font family. Now, new APIs have been added to improve customization. For more info, check out the following links:



Annotations can now include offset values in the auto-calculated axis range. Axis ranges can be adjusted based on annotation offset values by simply enabling the property **IncludeAnnotationRange** on the axis.

*Content Editor: Usha Clementine Henry | Content Contributor: Rajasekar B.*