About Syncfusion® Windows Forms Chart Control

18 Nov 20182 minutes to read

The Syncfusion® Windows Forms Chart control provides an effective way to visualize data with a high level of user interaction while focusing on development productivity and ease of use. It also offers a wide range of charting features for handling large volumes of data, flexible data binding, and extensive customization options.

Control structure in WindowsForms Chart

Key features

  • Rich chart types include line, spline, area, column, bar, range, step, pie, doughnut, gantt, heatmap, tornado, scatter, bubble, polar, radar, histogram, box-and-whisker, funnel, pyramid, financial, and combination charts.

  • Flexible data population supports direct data-point population, data binding, and extensible data models for displaying data from various sources.

  • Date and time support enables plotting DateTime values with automatic interval calculation and formatting capabilities.

  • Advanced axis support includes automatic range calculation, multiple axes, logarithmic scales, inverted axes, grouping labels, and axis customization.

  • Chart breaks improve readability by removing unused axis ranges when plotting data with large value differences.

  • Series customization provides extensive options for customizing series appearance, symbols, labels, empty points, and data points.

  • Data labels and symbols support customizable labels and symbols for individual data points to improve chart readability.

  • Legend customization supports custom legend items, images, symbols, floating legends, checkboxes, multiple legends, and runtime customization.

  • Multiple titles and legends support displaying and independently customizing multiple chart titles and legends.

  • Interactive exploration provides zooming, panning, tooltips, trackball, crosshair, selection, and interactive cursor support.

  • Trendlines help visualize statistical trends and data patterns using linear, exponential, logarithmic, power, polynomial, and moving-average calculations.

  • Statistical analysis supports formulas such as standard deviation, variance, distributions, T-test, F-test, and Z-test.

  • Visual customization offers extensive styling options for axes, labels, legends, titles, series, symbols, palettes, and overall chart appearance.

  • Custom palettes support built-in and user-defined color palettes, including gradient and non-gradient color schemes.

  • Chart Wizard provides design-time and runtime support for configuring chart data, series, axes, legends, titles, and appearance.

  • Import and export support exporting charts to supported image and document formats and restoring chart configurations.

  • Printing support enables printing chart content directly from Windows Forms applications.

See also

You can refer to our WinForms Chart control feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WinForms Chart example that shows how to render various chart types as well as how to easily configure with built-in support for creating stunning visual effects.