Xceed Chart for ASP.NET by Xceed Software Inc

.NET technology

Written entirely in managed C# (except for OpenGL module). Source code will be available in a future Blueprint Edition.

Not a .NET interface over a recycled ActiveX component.

All error handling works through .NET exception classes.

Object-oriented design created specifically for the .NET framework.

100% Unicode support.

Can be used in C#, VB.NET, and Managed C++.

Fast loading object with efficient memory usage.

Documentation fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Unique innovations

Video card hardware acceleration: Frees your CPU from having to draw the chart and transfers all rendering to the video card's GPU.

OpenGL for rendering charts: Creates impressive lighting effects, smooths chart elements using antialiasing and jittering, and provides unique fill effects.

Chart Explorer: An interactive ASP.NET application that demonstrates over 90 different charts. The source code of each example is included with Xceed Chart for ASP.NET.

True WYSIWYG design-time and run-time editors

Over twenty different design-time editors: These allow users to create and modify charts quickly and easily, writing little or no code. State-of-the-art editors with full Visual Studio design-time support allow the creation of charts based on templates and the modification of their data and settings in just a few minutes.

Excel-like fill effect editors: You can not only specify any fill effect that you can specify in Excel, but you can also visually create any custom gradient with the built-in advanced gradient editor.

Major ASP.NET features

Server-side events (postback) and HTML image maps: The image maps generated by the component can display tooltips, redirect the client browser to a specified URL or change the mouse cursor.

Server-side persistence: The component can preserve its state across roundtrips.

Injecting custom client-side script: Any type of client-side VBScript or JScript can be seamlessly integrated into the image maps generated by the component.

Directly streaming an image to the client browser: An indispensable feature when building scalable and secure server-side applications.

Built-in clean up of temporary files: The component automatically detects when a temporary file has expired and deletes it from the server. You can also assign disk space usage quotas for the directory holding the temporary files in order to ensure that you do not exceed the space used by your web server application.

Drill-down capabilities: Supports drill-down with a wide variety of events.

Built-in browser detection: By taking advantage of the power of .NET regular expressions, you can tell the component to generate different responses depending on the browser accessing the page.

Standalone server-side configuration utility: Allows you to configure your web applications and even entire groups of web applications using Xceed.Chart.ServerConfig.exe without writing a single line of code. Can be modified at runtime.

Major features

Wide variety of chart types: Fourteen major chart types are supported, such as the traditional bar, line, and pie series, but also high-low, mesh surface, and grid surface charts, and even a "shape" chart. Different chart types support multiple modes, meaning that literally dozens of different styles and types are available for developers. Many chart types support XY and XYZ scatter modes.

Empty data point support: All chart types support empty data points.

Flexible integrated legend: Many predefined styles, positions, and data layout strategies are provided. Supports headers and footers.

Built-in functions and formula support: The component has extensive custom formula support with 33 predefined functions, including commonly used financial indicators such as Relative Strength Index, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Momentum, Stochastic Oscillator, Directional Movement System, and Moving Averages.

Advanced control over axis scaling and position: Static and dynamic axis positioning strategies and settings. Several predefined text layout schemes. Four scaling modes: DateTime, Numeric, Logarithmic, and Dimension scale. Paging with lots of customizations.

Axis-labeling abilities: Stripes, constant lines as planes or simple lines, custom axis labels.

Display of several chart types simultaneously: Advanced chart margin and fit strategy control.

Display of several series simultaneously: Creating a combination chart has never been easier and more flexible.

Display of multiple charts and legends in the component canvas. Charts can be described on one or more legends. Legends can describe multiple charts.

Image Borders: Impressive skin effects, which add an important final touch to your chart.

Watermarks: Ideal for company logos and trademarks. Can be displayed on top of or behind the chart image with user-controlled transparency