What's New in Version 7.0

• Silverlight Add-on — Creating a Silverlight application that needs the power of Dundas Chart? The Silverlight Adaptor add-on lets you easily host the Chart in your application, with support for all of the Chart features you depend on.

All of these features are only available in the Enterprise Edition.

• Colored Area Chart Types — Looking for a way to highlight a section of a chart? The new Colored Area Chart Types let you color a range in Area, Spline Area, Range and Spline Range charts based on X values.
• Contour Chart Type — Need to render elevation or contours for your data visualization? The Contour Chart Type lets you convert any series into a contour map.
• Cycle Plot Helper — Calculate and create daily or monthly cycle plots based on your series data, making it easy to spot and analyse trends!
• Horizontal Box Plot Helper — The Horizontal Box Plot Helper lets you visualize a Box Plot horizontally, to better fit in with your data visualization design.
• Pair Bar Chart Helper — Transform two Bar Chart series into a Pair bar Chart to easily compare two bar series.
• Pie Plus Chart Type — Want to improve the look of your pie charts? Like the ColumnPlus we released with Chart 6.2, the PiePlus Chart Type gives you several new drawing styles for your 2D pie charts.
• Polar, Radar and Rose Chart Paint Helper — Adding custom painting to your Polar, Radar or Rose charts? This helper add-on calculates the absolute co-ordinates for points in these charts, making custom painting with .NET’s GDI+ a snap.
• Scorecard Chart Type — Need to create a balanced scorecard with bullet graphs, track inventory in a detailed grid, or display sparklines and Gantt charts? The multifunctional Scorecard Chart Type can help you created complex grid-based dashboard style data visualizations with bullet graphs, progress bars, sparklines, spark columns, spark areas, markers and images in no time.
• Stacked Pareto Helper — Need to combine the features of a stacked column chart with a Pareto chart? The Stacked Pareto Helper handles the complex sorting and totally required to make this work, adding the clarity of a Pareto series to your stacked column chart.
• Threshold Line Helper — Need to highlight chart values above or below a threshold? The Threshold Line Helper makes it easy for you to draw the highlighted values using a different line style for any Line, FastLine, Spline, Area or SplineArea series.
• Timeline Chart Type — Display a series as an event timeline with this new custom chart type.

New Features in 6.2

• Version 6.2 of Dundas Chart for .NET gives developers the ability to localize the User Interface elements of Dundas Chart for .NET using an external XML file.
• Version 6.2 of Dundas Chart for .NET gives developers the power to make entirely new chart types and use them within Dundas Chart just like any of the ones we have created.

* These features are included in the 2005-2008 Editions.

New Features in 6.1

• New Stacked Rose chart type.
• New PaletteCustomColors property for data series provides the flexibility to set custom palette colors for individual datapoints.
• New ColumnLabelStyle custom attribute defines the orientation of labels that appear on the data columns of column charts.
• Offset the placement of labels in Pie and Doughnut charts using a new attribute.
• New AJAX functionality with ChartScroll event.
• InnerRadius custom attribute used to place a gap in the center of Rose or Stacked Rose charts.

New Features in 6.0

• Support for Multiple Axes using the newly added sub-axis collection.
• New ArrowsType attribute, which adds line segments with custom arrow heads to the datapoint labels of Pie and Doughnut charts.
• Support for adding a custom title to the chart Property Dialog.
• Added the new Rose chart type.
• Additional chart color palettes.

New Features in 5.5

• Interactive AJAX technology charts.
• User interface support.
• FastPoint™ chart type.
• New Stand-alone Chart toolbar control.
• Integrated Chart toolbar.
• Property dialog.
• Context menu.
• Scale breaks.
• Zooming and scrolling.
• Significant Legend enhancements including:
  • Improved readability with new title properties to set title colors, fonts, alignments.
  • Wrap title text automatically, or by using a newline character.
  • Automatically generated legend items that can be reversed.
  • Limit the number of auto-generated legend items to avoid legend "overflow".
  • Limit the number of legend items displayed to avoid legend crowding.
  • Support for multi-columned legend items.
  • Assign special keywords to legend items to define critical values.
  • Specify width and height dimensions for column legends.
  • Add interlaced rows.
• Custom palettes.
• New 2D and 3D chart effects, to further enhance chart appearance.
• Simplified formatting using the new design-time keywords editor.
• Improved pie/doughnut chart readability by collecting pie slices.
• New grouping of stacked bar/column chart series.
• Set minimum and maximum font size for auto-generated axis labels.
• Calculate intervals dynamically based on chart length.
• Increased interactivity on the axis using the Tooltip and HREF properties.
• Specify the line style of chart financial markers.
• Modify the size of the marker border width.
• Show or hide individual chart areas on the chart.
• Improved usability by showing the hour glass cursor while loading or saving chart templates.
• New utility classes.

New Features in 5.0

• Full support for Visual Studio 2005.
• Ability to show or hide property tabs when using Smart Tags.
• Increased power when using custom labels.
• Improved group labeling.
• Enhanced sample framework, with added gallery images, and expanded overviews.

See Also