Released: Apr 26, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in 2010 Volume 2

Complete integration with the Visual Studio 2010 designer surface and support for Silverlight 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Essential Chart for WPF

• Interactive cursor
  Essential Chart allows the user to position the cursor at a specific data point in a series—the x- and y-axis values will be indicated by pop-up windows. As the cursor moves, the corresponding values will change.
• IDictionary IList support
  Essential Chart now supports binding a dictionary list to the x- and y-paths of a chart series.
• More 3-D charts
  Essential Chart now supports more 3-D charts—such as 3-D pyramid charts.
• Empty points for FastLine charts
  Essential Chart now ships with the addition of empty points for FastLine charts.
• Showing minor gridlines with logarithmic axis
  Grid lines and smaller ticks can now be customized when the axis is set as logarithmic.
• Zooming and Panning
  Essential Chart now comes with support for panning a zoomed area, allowing users to pan from one point to another.
• Binding array objects
  Essential Chart now allows binding array objects to x- and y-paths.
• Additional zooming functionality for SyncChartAreas
  Essential Chart allows users to enable panning and zooming in a synchronous chart area.
• Lazy loading support for FastChart types
  Essential Chart has increased its performance by decreasing loading time.
• Customization support for FastChart types
  FastChart types can be customized, including FastStackingColumn, FastHiLoOpenClose, FastScatter, and FastColumn.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC

• Scrolling and panning
  After zooming, to see the visible area, you can use scrolling and panning. You can scroll both vertically and horizontally by using the mouse wheel. For panning, you can click and drag the chart area to reveal hidden areas.
• Interactive cursor
  Essential Chart allows the user to position the cursor at a specific data point in a series—the x- and y-axis values will be indicated by pop-up windows. As the cursor moves, the corresponding values will change.
• RealTime chart
  Essential Chart is optimized to deal with real-time data. It can work with large amounts of real-time data and render a smooth and dynamic chart.
• Skins Support
  Essential Chart supports 14 different types of skins, giving a new look and feel to a chart.

Chart for Silverlight

• Alternating background
  Chart Silverlight now comes with the addition of an alternating background for the chart area.
• Logarithmic axis support
  The labels of a logarithmic axis can be customized.
• Empty point support for basic chart types
  Essential Chart adds support to enable or disable empty point visibility. This support is implemented for basic chart types that include column, bar, line, scatter, bubble, and stacking column charts.
• Small Tick lines between grid lines
  Essential Chart allows adding small ticks and gridlines between the major grid lines.
• Legend Customizations support
  Essential Chart now allows customizing a legend at run time.
• Striplines
  Essential Chart now comes with an additional strip-line feature that can be added to a plot and segmented.
• ToolTip for chart segment
  To identify the points of all segments, Essential Chart now comes with ToolTip support for chart segments.