So as we gear up for the 2010.2 release of DXperience, there is one more new product announcement for the Silverlight platform. If you had a chance to watch my webinar, you may have noticed the new charting suite that will be included in the upcoming release. In this post we’ll take a quick look at what DXCharts is and what features will be included...
The DXCharts Control for Silverlight™ is a charting suite designed to provide the best performance on the Silverlight platform. As part of the DevExpress eXpress Presentation Framework (XPF), the Chart Control for Silverlight enables code cross-compatibility with its WPF counterpart, allowing developers to create one application and port it to the corresponding XAML platform with ease.
The component includes support for fifteen 2D chart types, numerous diagram, scale and UI features to provide you with the advanced functionality and customizability for creating and rendering business charts within your Silverlight application.
Supported Chart Types
The DevExpress Chart Control for Silverlight supports all the 2D series types as its WPF counterpart. These include:
- Side-By-Side Bars
- Stacked Bars
- Full-Stacked Bars
- Side-By-Side Stacked Bars
- Side-By-Side Full Stacked Bars
- Points
- Bubbles
- Lines
- Areas
- Stacked Areas
- Full-Stacked Areas
- Stocks
- Candle-Sticks
- Pie and Doughnut Charts
The charts also include built-in animations that are common across both the WPF and Silverlight versions of the product.
Diagrams
The Chart Control includes support for Simple and XY Diagrams. The XY Diagram includes the following features: Constant lines, Strips, Custom Axis Labels, Secondary Axes, Diagram Rotation and Axis reverse.
Key Features
- Scale Types: Qualitative, Numerical, Date-Time
- Chart titles
- Series titles
- Data Binding via Series Template
- Custom drawing series points and axis labels
- Empty points
- Legend
- Resolve point label overlapping (except Pie/Doughnut)
- Multiple Palettes