Create stunning business oriented charts

Essential Chart for WPF is an industry-leading charting component that handles business data and plots visual graphs. It includes 33 different chart types that help in visualizing data in a variety of forms. Drilling down with different chart types enhances user experience. Many chart elements can be customized including chart series, legends, ticks, axis labels, and chart areas.

General Features

Written fully in WPF, these control support initialization via eXtensible Application Markup Language(XAML) or through procedural code. You can develop WPF applications using these controls in VS.NET 2005 (with WPF Extensions), VS.NET 2008, or using Microsoft Expression Blend.

• Platform Compatibility
• Templates

Axis Features

Many customization options are available for chart axes in Essential Chart for WPF. Axes can be inverted, gridlines can be rendered to indicate axis intervals, and strip-lines can be rendered to cover areas of the axes.

• Axis-Label Customization
• Data Types
• Gridlines
• Inverted Axis
• Secondary Axis
• Stripline
• Label Positioning

Chart Appearance

Essential Chart provides a variety of effects to customize the background of the chart and its parts such as chart-areas and chart series.

• Background
• 3-D Charts
• 3-D Chart Customization
• Chart Skins
• Adornments
• Segment Labels

Chart Type

Essential Chart offers 33 different chart types, which can be easily configured to suit any user's needs. It supports the customization of charts both at the series and individual point levels. Combining compatible chart types is supported and so are stacking modes for certain chart types.

• Accumulation Charts
• Area Charts
• Bar Charts
• Circular Charts
• Column Charts
• Financial Charts
• Line Charts
• Pie Chart
• Scatter Charts

Chart Data

Essential Chart for WPF can be populated with points in many different ways. It supports data from sources such as Observable Collections, LINQ results, databases, IList, XML data, and Collection Views.

• Data Sources

Export Options

Essential Chart for WPF allows users to copy a chart to a clipboard, export to an image file, and print portions of a chart.

• Export and Print

Interactive Elements

Build interactive charts to provide users with a rich run-time experience. Enable Essential Chart's built-in zooming features to let end-users zoom and focus on portions of a chart. Built-in toolbars and context menus also let end-users customize the appearance of a chart during runtime.

• Picking Chart Types
• Zooming
• ToolTip
• Toolbar

Chart Legend

Legends that identify a series in a chart are supported. A legend's appearance or positioning is completely customizable. Users can also add custom legends to charts.

• Legend Customization
• Legend Positioning

Heat Map

The HeatMap control helps visualize graphical representations of data where values are measurements of two variables selected from items in a data source.

• Features