# Provide Data | WPF Controls | DevExpress Documentation

The documents in this section describe approaches for providing data to your chart.

There are two general ways of providing data to your chart.

| ![icon_ChartManual](/WPF/images/icon_chartmanual11460.png) | **[Manual series creation](/WPF/7919/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/create-a-series-manually)**<br><br><br>Each series is explicitly added to the *diagram*‘s collection. A series is not displayed unless it has points, so you should populate your series with points in one of the two following ways:<br><br><ul><br><li><a class="xref" href="/WPF/7920/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/add-points-to-a-series-manually">add points to a series collection manually</a> by specifying point <em>arguments</em> and <em>values</em> individually;</li><br><li><a class="xref" href="/WPF/7921/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/bind-a-series-to-a-data-source">specify a data source</a> for a manually created series and populate this series with points automatically, based on the specified fields.</li><br></ul> |
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| ![Icon_ChartAuto](/WPF/images/icon_chartauto11461.png) | **[Automatic series creation](/WPF/7922/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/define-a-template-for-automatic-series)**<br><br><br>In this type of series creation, you specify a data source and a common template. Based on the data source and common template, series are created and populated automatically. |

Note that you do not need to specify a scale type before providing data for a chart, because the [Series.ArgumentScaleType](/WPF/DevExpress.Xpf.Charts.Series.ArgumentScaleType) property is set to **Auto** mode by default. For more details, see [Series Scale Types](/WPF/8453/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/series-scale-types).

After populating data to the Chart, you can process this data. The available operations are: [Data Aggregation](/WPF/16846/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/data-aggregation), [Data Filtering](/WPF/116571/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/filter-chart-data) and [Top N and Others Grouping](/WPF/120130/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/top-n-and-others).

Also, data points can be colored depending on data values. Refer to the [Colorizers](/WPF/114016/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/series-point-colorizers) document to learn more.

The Chart control allows you to not display the non-working days on the **date-time** axis of arguments. Refer to the [Work Time and Workday Configuration](/WPF/116192/controls-and-libraries/charts-suite/chart-control/provide-data/work-time-and-workday-configuration) document to learn how this can be done.