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Chart Series Types for WinForms C# Tutorial

The Series Types of Chart View is a collection of Chart Series, including Area, SplineArea, Bar, Line, Spline, Scatter point, Combined series. The Chart control provides two primary functions to Chart series. One is a collection used to stand for the specific data and the other is to visualize the data by using a predefined model. The following are the series types that the Chart support, including Bar, Pie, Line, Area, Donut, Scatter, Polar, Stock, Radar, Categorical or Polar.

Supported Series Type by Each Area

The below part illustrates the series type supported by the area.

The Cartesian Area provides the support to Area, Bar, Ohlc, Candlestick, Line, and Scatter series. This Cartesian area is a standard system for the Cartesian coordination and developers can control the position of each point on the plane via a pair of values. In Chartâs Cartesian area, there are in two groups of series, scatter and categorical, are supported. The scatter set the position of its point with two numeric values that is two numerical axes. The categorical plot the data points with one numerical and one categorical value. The Categorical contain series like Bar, Line, Area, Ohlc, Candlestick that can be used with Chart.

The Pie Area offers the support of series to Pie and Donut. The Pie Area supports Pie and Donut series and it is different from any other areas, because axes are not necessary for the Pie Area. The Pie Area displays each data point as slices with arc size directly proportional to the magnitude of the raw data pointâs value.

The Polar Area offers the support of series to Polar and Radar, the Polar series contains Point, Line, and Area and the Radar series contains the Point, Line, and Area. This Polar area provides a system of polar coordination and developers can control the value with changing a value couple. In addition, the Polar area renders Radar series that splits the polar area into equal-size category sectors.

Properties of the Series Type for Chart

DataPoints, a collection contains specific data points in each series type
Scatter and Pie series, however, operate only with ScatterDataPoints and PieDataPoints respectively.
Bar, Line and Area, the series works with CategoricalDataPoints.
DataSource, data binding properties supported by all series. Chart series support both bound and unbound mode.
AngleMember, additional data binding properties, related to the specific of the contained data
ValueMember, the property is used to resolve the property of the data records visualized by the data points
XValueMember, additional data binding properties, related to the specific of the contained data
YValueMember, additional data binding properties, related to the specific of the contained data
CombineMode, a mechanism for combining data points that reside in different series but have the same category for chart series. Available value incldudes None, Cluster and Stack
DataPoints, populate categorical series with data manually in unbound mode.
None, a value of the CombineMode, used for plotting the series independent from each other
Cluster, a value of the CombineMode, used for displaying data points in the same category
Stack, a value of the CombineMode, used for plotting plots the points on top of each other
Stack100, a value of the CombineMode, used for displaying the percentage value

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