Chart not showing columns in ActiveReports

[Gordon Bownes]

I am evaluating Essential Charts as the charting control for ActiveReports. I have a chartcontrol which works fine when I create a chart in a windows form, but does not when I use the same code to create a chart in an ActiveReport. The ActiveReport chartcontrol does not show the columns. It does show the chart title, the x axis title and the number of x axis elements increases with the number of items in the series, but the columns themselves do not show. Is this a problem with ActiveReports, Essential Charts or with my code. I am enclosing the whole of the chart creation code below. Hopefully you can point out my error.

Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Chart.ChartControl cc = ((Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Chart.ChartControl)CustomControl1.Control);

cc.Model.ColorModel.Palette = ChartColorPalette.Pastel;
cc.PrimaryXAxis.Title = "Resource Labor Costs";
cc.PrimaryYAxis.Title = "Hours Worked";

ChartSeries Series = cc.Model.NewSeries ( "Resource Costs ", ChartSeriesType.Column );

for ( int j = 0; j < 20; j++ )
{
Series.Points.Add ( Convert.ToDouble ( j ), Convert.ToDouble ( j + 1 ) );
}

Series.Style.DisplayText = false;
Series.Style.DisplayShadow = true;
Series.Style.Symbol.Shape = ChartSymbolShape.Square;
Series.Style.Symbol.Size = new Size ( 15, 15 );
Series.Style.Symbol.Color = Color.Blue;
Series.Style.Border.Color = Color.FromArgb(100, Color.BlueViolet);
Series.Style.Border.DashStyle = DashStyle.DashDotDot;
cc.Series.Add(Series);

cc.LegendPosition = ChartLegendPosition.Top;
cc.PrimaryXAxis.DrawGrid = false;
cc.PrimaryYAxis.DrawGrid = false;

[Davis Jebaraj]

Hi, Thank you for choosing Syncfusion. Essential Chart and several other custom controls are not displayed properly within ActiveReports. However, ActiveReports provides a work around to this problem by using a Picture control and setting the Image property of the Picture control with a image of the Custom control. Essential Chart supports drawing to a image and can be easily used in ActiveReports using this work around. Please see the sample linked to below for an example: http://www.syncfusion.com/support/user/Uploads/EssentialChartActiveReports_2860.zip Regards, Davis