Today we will set see how to set appearance of chart control and chart area within the control. We will set chart area shadow offset to make it look like its shadow is dropping on the back, define two colors for each chart and chart area so we can apply gradient effect on back color of chart, define border of chart area to show where chart area end, define direction of chart and chart area's gradient direction. [More]

Today we will give our chart control a new power, power of being able to add new series from code behind as well as including letting our users choose the chart type of new series from dropdown list.

So to get started lets place our aspx markup for chart and dropdown list control as follows: [More]

Often you want to change appearance of your column chart to cylinder or emboss or something else. It's quite easy to change chart series appearance in MS Chart just by setting few properties.

Today we will see how to convert column chart to cylinder chart, show directional axis arrows and title for both x axis and y axis.

So in order to get started lets first set our chart control and then set few properties. (Later in this article we will see what those properties mean): [More]

There are times when you need to show data in Pie chart and sometimes you want to have one slice separated from rest of the disc (know as exploded Pie Chart).

Today we will look in representing whole pie in exploded form but if you like you can have just slice or two in exploded form. [More]

MS Chart control provide a good collection of predefined color palettes to set colors of your series but in case you would like to define your own color pattern then you can use Palette Custom Color method to define your own set of colors.

In this demo I have used pie chart but you can choose whichever type of chart you want and it will work just fine. [More]

Data distribution on pie chart is great but sometimes you want to make your slices stand out from group. With MS Chart Control this is very easy to achieve.

To get started, lets first setup some basic properties of chart control:

1) Set Palette to SemiTransparent [More]

One of the most common types of chart is pie chart control. This control helps in visualizing data and percentage distribution on pie chart or on donut chart.

Today we will see two types of pie chart one as a whole another with supplement chart for better readability of small distributions in your pie chart. [More]

In previous article we have seen how to setup chart control on html mark up. Today we are going to explore little more around the subject.

We will connect our chart control using code behind file and set some properties to see how it can change the chart just by setting few properties.

Let's get started by adding chart control to the page. [More]

In our daily busy lives we all get very little time to consume all the information that is flying all over the place these days. Picture worth thousand words saying comes true and works every time in all situations, no matter if its advertisements or graphs.

Graphs/Charts, that is the topic here today.


Microsoft chart controls provides a new look to your data presentation style. You can do almost everything using their class libraries.
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