Chart Control

• Feb 01, 2021
• 2 minutes to read

The DevExpress ChartControl for WinForms is a powerful visualization tool that helps you display your data as bars, areas, lines and many other forms.

Getting Started
	This section contains tutorials that are intended to help first-time users get acquainted with the DevExpress ChartControl for WinForms. Lesson 1 - Create a Simple Unbound Chart Lesson 2 - Create a Chart using the Chart Designer Lesson 3 - Bind Chart Series to Data Lesson 4 - Use a Series Template for Auto-Created Series The Chart control supports a wide variety of series views, for example areas, bars, lines and others. In addition, you can use the Chart control to visualize financial data and also to plot Gantt diagrams. The Chart Element Hierarchy topic contains information about all the chart elements.
Providing Data
	The Chart control allows you to provide data in several different ways. First, you can manually create a series, and then populate points manually or automatically generate data from a data source. Second, it is possible to automatically generate series using the series template. Also, the Chart control supports data aggregation and color providing. In addition, you can configure the data representation using, for example, data filtering and sorting.
Appearance Customization
	The Chart control is shipped with several predefined appearances and palettes allowing you to customize the chart’s outward appearance per your needs. If out of the box chart appearance customization features do not meet your expectations, the Chart control supports the custom draw events.
End-User Features
	In addition to the basic end-user interaction, the Chart control supports the following interaction features. Tooltip and Crosshair Cursor Chart Designer for End-Users Chart Ribbon and Toolbars Animation Print and Export Range Control Support Drill Down
Design-Time Features
	The Chart control can be easily and rapidly customized using the Chart Designer and Pattern Editor.