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NOV Chart for .NET is an advanced charting control, which can display a myriad of charting types including cartesian, funnel, pie, polar and tree map. The main features of the control are:
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Series - support for an unlimited number of series from the following types:
- Area - standard area, scatter area, stacked area, stacked percent area.
- Bar - standard bar, scatter bar, stacked bar, stacked percent bar, cluster bar.
- Box And Whiskers
- Bubble - standard bubble, xy scatter bubble.
- Error Bar
- Funnel - standard funnel, scatter funnel.
- High Low - standard high low, scatter high low with many appearance options.
- Heat Map - heat map with contour option.
- Line - standard line, smooth line, step line, xy scatter line, stacked line, stacked percent line.
- Pie - standard pie, exploded pie.
- Doughnut Pie
- Point - standard point, xy scatter point.
- Polar Area
- Polar Line
- Polar Range
- Polar Vector
- Radar Area
- Radar Line
- Range
- Stock - candle stock, stick stock, scatter stock
- TreeMap
- Vector
All series support annotations via data labels. The control provides automatic data label layout which ensures that data labels do not overlap.
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Axes - support for an unlimited number of axes with the following features:
- Axis Position - Cartesian and polar axes can be docked or crossed to the plot area, with different settings.
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Scales - each axis can have a different scale type including:
- Ordinal - suitable for display of categorical data.
- Linear - suitable for display of numeric data.
- Logarithmic - suitable for display of numeric data.
- Date Time - suitable for display of date time data.
- Value Timeline - suitable for display of date time data.
- Range Timeline - suitable for display of date time data.
- Hierarchical - suitable for display of categorical data.
All scales also support the Calendar. Scale Breaks and Sections features.
- Attributes - each axis can have associated reference lines and strips.
- Scrollbar - each cartesian axis has an associated scrollbar allowing the user the scroll the axis at runtime.
- Serialization - the control state can be persisted to file or stream in XML or Binary format.
- Image Export - the control can generate all vector (PDF) and raster images (PNG, JPEG, BMP etc.) to a file or memory stream.
- Styling support - all chart elements can be styled with CSS.
- Printing support
- WYSIWYG - the control is resolution independent and renders with the same quality in print or image export mode with high resolution.