ASP.Net 4.0 - Chart Control

ASP.Net 4.0 - Chart Control: Getting Started

Note Microsoft introduced a new control (chart) from ASP.Net 4.0 version.

You can download full source code of a chart application.

Chart control can be of following types:

1. Line

2. Bar

3. Pie etc and a lot more......

In this section we will only concentrate on the above mentioned 3 chart types.

This guide presents the following to quickly get you up and running with the Chart Diagram (Bar, Line and Pie):

Overview

A chart control have 2 most important attributes:
1. Series: The Series collection contains the data-points for one or more data-series. Basically for each line in the chart
(consisting of multiple data-points), one series of data is required. Each series can have its own ChartType.

2. ChartAreas: The ChartArea collection can have one or more configurations which controls the rendering of a chart.
A chart must have a chart area.

Our System

We will going to generate the following charts today:

Key Concept

You can create a chart diagram by following the below steps:

1. First of all Drag a Chart control on the default page from toolbox.

   It will perform the following changes:
   
    a. It will add some handlers, appkeys and axd file in web.config:
       
   
   
   
       b. Now your web page will have the chart control :
   
   
       
   

2. Now declare the chart type and bind the chart control with a datatable or dataset from the code behind:

3. By,
   Akash Roy,
   CEO, JPR Infoserve,
   http://jprinfoserve.com