A preliminary study on the use of Microsoft Chart control MSChart

Yesterday on the Internet saw Microsoft released the. NET 3.5 framework of the chart control, the first time to grasp the look, found that the function is very strong, basically can think of charts can be used to draw out, to graph statistics and report graphic display provides a good solution, Both Web and WinForm are supported in two ways, but the disadvantages are also obvious and can only be used in the latest development environment, the. Net 3.5 Sp1 and the VS 2008 development environment.

Here is the download address:

Controls: Microsoft Chart control Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5) –

Includes English version, Chinese version. The links provided above are in the Chinese version and can be changed to English version.

Language Packs: Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5 Language Pack

The Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Chart Control Language Pack, which contains 23 languages.

Microsoft Chart Controls Add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008–

This one is only in English, but not in Chinese.

Documentation (Microsoft Chart Controls for. NET Framework documentation) –

This one is only in English, but not in Chinese.

Examples of WinForm and asp.net (Samples environment for Microsoft Chart Controls) –

This one is only in English, not found in English.

Demo Download: Http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart

After it's sample program, run a bit, very powerful, can support a variety of graphic display, common: dot, pie, histogram, graph, area, arrangement and so on, but also support the 3D-style chart display, but I think the most useful feature is to support the various points on the graphics of the property operations, It can define the points on the graph, labels, graphics, hints (Tooltip), hyperlinks, JavaScript actions, and so on, rather than just a picture of other graphics libraries, and with Microsoft's own AJAX framework, you can create an interactive graphical statistic report.

One. Installation

The control is relatively simple to install, after downloading, the first implementation of the "MSChart.exe" program, it will automatically detect your environment, installed in the system directory, if you want to use in the VS 2008 environment, then need to install the for Vs2008 plug-in, Mschart_ VisualStudioAddOn.exe, there is also a Chinese language pack mschartlp_chs.exe. After installing, open Vs2008, you can see a chart control in the toolbar when you build the project, the following figure: