Charting controls

The Phone Elements Chart and PieChart controls support a whole host of different chart types:

• Bar charts
• Line charts
• Area charts
• Pie charts
• Doughnut charts
• Bubble charts
• Scatter charts
• Spline charts
• Spline area charts
• Stacked bar charts
• Stacked area charts
• Stacked line charts
• Stacked spline charts
• Stacked spline area charts

These charts support an array of common features:

• Data binding
• Fully customizable
• Data labelling
• Alternate Y axes
• Zoom support
• Selection modes
• Chart events
• Performance
• Axis features
• Background elements

Data binding

Full support for Silverlight data binding makes it easy to hook charts up to your business objects and to keep your views lightweight and easy to test.

Fully customizable

Every part of the chart control can be customized to suit your applications. Styles or templates can be applied to the title, legend items, axis labels and much more.

Data labelling

Add captions to the chart so the user knows exactly what they're seeing. There is an option to display a legend, and you can turn on in-chart labelling with a single property, and customize the labels to bring out the key information about each data point.

Alternate Y axes

Alternate Y axes are useful for displaying multiple data series with different data ranges on the same chart. You could also use alternate Y axes to display alternate measurement scales such as degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Zoom support

Mindscape Phone Elements charts support various zooming options and methods. Zooming can be enabled, disabled, or limited to either horizontal or vertical zooming. Zooming and panning can be achieved by pinching, stretching, dragging, or by changing some property values.

Selection modes

Various selection modes determine how users can select the individual data points. You can limit the selection to a single data point at a time, allow any number of data points to be selected or disable selection all together.

Chart events

The Mindscape WP7 chart control has many events that allow you to listen to dragging and tapping gestures. The event arguments let you know the state of the gesture and both the logical and physical position of the touch points over the charting area.

Performance

Impressive performance allows the chart control to plot, zoom and pan a large number of data points.

Axis features

The many axis features makes it easy to plot all sorts of different data. You can plot numerical values, arbitrary objects, dates and times or create a custom scale of your own. The appearance of the axes are also flexible and easy to customize - display major and minor tick marks, specify the tick spacing and format the axis labels.

Background elements

Mindscape WP7 charts comes with components that allow you to display grid lines, stripe lines and colored areas behind the plotted data. You can also create custom foreground and background elements to add extra visualization to the charts in your applications.