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Thank you for downloading .netCHARTING. As you explore the features and functionality of this component you will find it is extremely powerful and capable of creating virtually any charts you may need. This software has also been developed to be much more flexible than the status quo. This will enable you to push the charting envelope beyond the standards you may be used to.

This section with give a general overview of how everything works and get you started quickly. So without further ado, let's get to it.

Step 1. Installation

Please see the instructions in the installation help topic to get the component installed and able to view the accompanying samples.

After the component is installed, take a look at the samples to get a grasp on some of the features available. You may see some interesting features that will give you ideas for charts you will be creating.

Step 2. Getting/Using Data

.netCHARTING has a simple yet powerful interface for data acquisition and manipulation. Chart data is represented by SeriesCollection, Series, and Element classes. For more information on this model see this topic. When you are familiar with the general data model, you can explore the connecting to data sources and using query strings sections to learn how to populate these classes automatically.

Advanced At this point you will be able to generate simple charts, however, this is only scratches the surface of what you can do in the data acquisition phase. You can also manipulate, group by dates, limit top x results, and do many other things with your data. When you are ready to explore the more advanced data features, take a look at the other Data Tutorials.

Step 3. Chart Type

An important point to remember is that the data model is independent from the chart engine itself. This means that whatever data you get, you will be able to create any chart with it. The mechanism behind chart types is also quite flexible.

Step 4. Exploring other features

You will now be able to generate basic charts and have a general idea of how to change the chart type. Most of the time, this is not enough to create the exact chart you need. Fortunately, we have covered only about 5% of the functionality available. Moving forward, there are many tutorials at your disposal. You may also visit the support section of our website to download printable PDF versions of some tutorials so that you can review them at your leisure.

• Basic Tutorials
  Tutorials describing basic .net usage such as working with fonts and colors.
• Data Tutorials
  Tutorials describing how to acquire data from different data sources and how to manipulate the chart data model.
• General Tutorials
  Tutorials describing the functionality of .netCHARTING and its features.