Creating Charts

The last rich data control we will discuss is Chart. It produces graphical representations of data, as opposed to the textual representations that you have seen from the other controls. The Chart control supports infinite configurability. Dozens of different chart types are available, countless color and style options exist, and it even offers support for three-dimensional charts.

In fact, there are so many configuration options that I am not even going to try to describe them. All I can do in this chapter is provide a single example as a starting point for you to explore the capabilities of the Chart control.

To begin, we need some data to plot. We are going to create a chart with two data series. The first will be the overall ...

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