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Line Series of Chart for WinForms C# Tutorial

The Series Types of Chart View is a collection of Chart Series, including Area, Spline Area, 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.

The Line Series is able to position the data points of the Categorical on Cartesian Area. The Line Series position the data points by using one categorical and one numerical axis. The Positioned points can be connected with the straight lines or large smooth curves.

How to Customize Line Series

The following C# code shows how to customize the line series


LineSeries lineSeries = new LineSeries();
lineSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(15, "Mar"));
lineSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(28, "May"));
lineSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(11, "Aug"));
lineSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(29, "Nov"));
this.chart1.Series.Add(lineSeries);

LineSeries lineSeries2 = new LineSeries();
lineSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(28, "Feb"));
lineSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(25, "Jun"));
lineSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(12, "Oct"));
lineSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(29, "Dec"));
this.chart1.Series.Add(lineSeries2);

Properties of Line Series for Chart

BorderWidth, the property is used for setting the thickness of the lines
PointSize, the property is used for setting the point size
DisplayLabels, a Boolean property, used for determining the labels above each point will be visible
Spline, the property is used for drawing straight lines or smooth curves for the series
SplineTension, the property is used for setting the tension of the spline. The value of Spline should be true when customizing the SplineTension property
CombineMode, this is a common property used for all categorical series, which introduces a mechanism for combining data points that reside in different series without the same category. The available valid value contains None, Cluster, Stack and Stack100.
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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