DevExpress Presentation API: Get Started with ChartEx (Office 2016 and later)

• May 12, 2026
• 2 minutes to read

This topic describes how to create a ChartEx, add it to a presentation, and customize its settings.

Add a ChartEx with a Data Series to a Presentation

• Add a ChartEx object to a slide’s Shapes collection.

• Specify the chart’s Width and Height properties.

• Specify the chart’s ChartData property to define the data source for the chart. For more information on how to load data to a chart, refer to the following help topic: Load Data to Charts.

• Create a series of the required type and add it to the chart’s Series collection.

• Specify the series Arguments and Values properties to define the series data points.

C#

using DevExpress.Docs.Office;
using DevExpress.Docs.Presentation;

namespace PresentationApiSample;

public class Program {
    public static async Task Main(string[] _) {

        Presentation presentation = new Presentation();

        presentation.Slides.Clear();

        Slide slide = new Slide(SlideLayoutType.Blank);
        presentation.Slides.Add(slide);

        ChartEx chart = new ChartEx();
        slide.Shapes.Add(chart);

        chart.Width = presentation.SlideSize.Width;
        chart.Height = presentation.SlideSize.Height;

        WaterfallSeries series = new WaterfallSeries();
        series.Text = "Cash Flow";
        series.Arguments = new ChartStringData(new[] { "Start", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "End" });
        series.Values = new ChartNumericData(new[] { 0.0, 12.0, -5.0, 8.0, 15.0 });

        chart.Series.Add(series);
    }
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.Docs.Office
Imports DevExpress.Docs.Presentation

Namespace PresentationApiSample

    Public Class Program
        Public Shared Async Function Main(args As String()) As Task

            Dim presentation As New Presentation()

            presentation.Slides.Clear()

            Dim slide As New Slide(SlideLayoutType.Blank)
            presentation.Slides.Add(slide)

            Dim chart As New ChartEx()
            slide.Shapes.Add(chart)

            chart.Width = presentation.SlideSize.Width
            chart.Height = presentation.SlideSize.Height

            Dim series As New WaterfallSeries()
            series.Text = "Cash Flow"
            series.Arguments = New ChartStringData({"Start", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "End"})
            series.Values = New ChartNumericData({0.0, 12.0, -5.0, 8.0, 15.0})

            chart.Series.Add(series)
        End Function
    End Class
End Namespace

Supported Series Types

The ChartExType enumeration lists chart types available for the ChartEx class:

Chart type	Series type
Box and Whisker	BoxAndWhiskerSeries
Funnel	FunnelSeries
Histogram	HistogramSeries
Pareto	ParetoSeries
Filled Map	MapSeries
Sunburst	SunburstSeries
Treemap	TreemapSeries
Waterfall	WaterfallSeries