.netCHARTING v10.5 Documentation
Silverlight Navigator Intro

Sections

  1. Key Benefits
  2. How it works
  3. Supported Features

 

Key Benefits

  • Performance
    • Provides unmatched performance navigating large data sets.
    • Ultra-Responsive interface utilizes multi-core technologies.
    • Smooth transitions zooming in and out of data and scrolling to different points in the chart.
    • Ground-up client side design (the heavy lifting is done client side reducing server load and enhancing scalability).
    • Utilizes multi-core processor technology.
  • Usability
    • Provides an innovative user interface.
    • Deep zooming from decades down to milliseconds.
    • Time, numeric, and category scale selection using quick x axis cell selection.
    • Has been put through rigorous usability testing across a range of demographics.
    • Real-time chart sizing.
    • Usable in a SlideShow presentation.
  • Programmability
    • Seamlessly utilizes the .netCHARTING API to speed deployment and minimize development.
    • Provide a highly interactive Silverlight chart solution for your clients without any knowledge or editing of Silverlight required.
    • Existing clients can transform most static dotnetCHARTING charts into Silverlight Navigator versions with a single property setting.

 

 

How It Works 

.netCHARTING seamlessly handles the complexity of Silverlight deployment, plug-in detection and down-level support so you don't have to. Developers are able to deploy one of the most advanced and innovative Silverlight solutions available utilizing a simple server side API which is already familiar to them. Developers with more advanced requirements are able to access the client side JavaScript API to provide further interactivity between the page and the embedded control. The .netCHARTING Silverlight Navigator is an extremely refined implementation which includes custom UI controls for range selection, automatic transfer of highly compressed data packages client to server and leverages the .netCHARTING data engine to further minimize development on the server side.

 

Supported Features

Many of the common features are supported; however, there are some limitations.

 

General Features

Feature Server Chart Support Silverlight Chart Support
2D Chart
3D Charts
Data ShadingEffects
Effects 1-3 are available
MicroCharts
Label Markup
Rich Tooltips
InfoGrids
Multiple and Custom LegendBoxes
Dynamic Chart Area Legend Entries
Multiple chart areas
Label Tokens and Expressions
Smart Labels
Annotations
Box Headers
Statistical Analysis
Finance Indicators

 

Chart Types

Chart Types Server Chart Support Silverlight Chart Support
Combo
ComboHorizontal
ComboSideBySide
Pie
Donut
Radar
Scatter
Bubble
Financial
Gantt
Gauges
Map
Multiple
Organizational

Series Types

Series Types Server Chart Support Silverlight Chart Support
Marker
Markers with custom Images
Line
AreaLine
Line and AreaLine series types support markers at each element position, however, in order to improve the performance of charts, when these series types contain more than 250 elements, the markers will be removed automatically in order to make the charts usable.
Spline
AreaSpline
Column
Cylinder
Same as Column.
Bar
Bubble
Pyramid
Cone
Same as Pyramid.
BubbleShape
BarSegmented
 - Sub Values
 - Empty Element Handling
 - Element Hotspots (Interactivity)
Series Types Financial
CandleStick
Bar
Open
Close
High
Low
HighLowArea

Axis Features

Axis Features Server Chart Support Silverlight Chart Support
Per Series Multiple Axes
Angled X Axis Labels
XAxis Intervals
X Axis intervals are always dynamic.
Scale Breaks
Scale breaks are available on the x axis.
Label Markup
Axis Orientation
The x axis can only be on bottom.
Range Axis Ticks
Available on the Y Axis
Tick Label Styling
Axis Markers
Axis Marker Labels on CA
Scales
Normal
Range
Logarithmic
Time
Stacked
FullStacked
Logarithmic Stacked
Inverted (reversed)

 

See Also