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How to: Use Manual Date-Time Scale Options of an Axis

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This example demonstrates how to use the manual date-time scale options of the X-axis.

Data aggregation is enabled automatically for the date-time scale on the X-axis in both automatic and manual scale options.

When the AxisX2D.DateTimeScaleOptions property is set to ManualDateTimeScaleOptions, you can define the ManualDateTimeScaleOptions.GridAlignment, ManualDateTimeScaleOptions.MeasureUnit and ManualDateTimeScaleOptions.AggregateFunction properties manually.

To use the automatic date-time scale options, set the AxisX2D.DateTimeScaleOptions property to AutomaticDateTimeScaleOptions, and select the appropriate AutomaticDateTimeScaleOptions.AggregateFunction.

To prevent the axis scale from being divided into intervals (and thus prevent chart data from being aggregated), set the ManualDateTimeScaleOptions.AggregateFunction property to None.

<Window
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:dxc="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/charts" 
        x:Class="WpfApplication19.MainWindow"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="400" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <dxc:ChartControl>
            <dxc:XYDiagram2D >
                <dxc:XYDiagram2D.AxisX>
                    <dxc:AxisX2D GridLinesMinorVisible="True" GridLinesVisible="True">
                        <dxc:AxisX2D.DateTimeScaleOptions>
                            <dxc:ManualDateTimeScaleOptions AggregateFunction="Maximum" AutoGrid="False"
                                                            GridAlignment="Year" MeasureUnit="Month" 
                                                            GridSpacing="3" GridOffset="1"/>
                        </dxc:AxisX2D.DateTimeScaleOptions>
                    </dxc:AxisX2D>
                </dxc:XYDiagram2D.AxisX>
                <dxc:LineSeries2D DataSource="{Binding Path=Rate}" 
                                  ArgumentDataMember="Argument" ValueDataMember="Value"  />
            </dxc:XYDiagram2D>          
        </dxc:ChartControl>
    </Grid>
</Window>