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Radar Series of Chart 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.

The radar chart can display more than three numerical data on axis in a 2D chart and the different data always start from the same point. The Radar Series are only valid when it is in the context of Pie AreaType, because the radar series is a derivative of Polar Series. There are three radar series implementations are support by the Chart, including RadarPiontSeries, RadarLineSeries and RadarAreaSeries.

How to Set the Radar Series in C#

The following are the C# code that shows how to customizing the three radar series.


this.chart1.AreaType = ChartAreaType.Polar;
RadarAreaSeries radarAreaSeries = new RadarAreaSeries();
radarAreaSeries.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(121, 155, 187, 58);
radarAreaSeries.BorderColor = Color.FromArgb(121, 155, 187, 58);
radarAreaSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(22, "Screen"));
radarAreaSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(3, "Mouse"));
radarAreaSeries.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(5, "Keyboard"));
this.chart1.Series.Add(radarAreaSeries);

RadarAreaSeries radarAreaSeries2 = new RadarAreaSeries();
radarAreaSeries2.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(121, 155, 187, 58);
radarAreaSeries2.BorderColor = Color.FromArgb(121, 155, 187, 58);
radarAreaSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(22, "Screen"));
radarAreaSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(3, "Mouse"));
radarAreaSeries2.DataPoints.Add(new CategoricalDataPoint(5, "Keyboard"));
this.chart1.Series.Add(radarAreaSeries2);

Customizing Properties of Polar Series for Chart

CategoryMember, this is a property used for naming the property in the data source that stores data of the category
ValueMember, this is a property used for naming the property in the data source that stores information of the radius
PointSize, this is a property used for customizing the size of the drawn points in all polar series
BorderWidth, this is a property used for customizing the width of the lines in RadarLineSeries and RadarAreaSeries.

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