Implementing cool charts in Silverlight 2

Introduction

Silverlight has been a great support for graphic image processing since the 1.0 era, so we can achieve a great variety of statistical charts in Silverlight, but now there are some open source projects that make this work simpler.

Simple chart

First we need to download the Visifire Project Silverlight development Package, add the namespaces to the Visifire.Charts.dll and Visifire.Commons.dll assembly references after the project is created:

Create a chart, where the LayoutRoot is the control where we place the chart, which enables controls such as grid, StackPanel, or canvas.

To add data, here, for simplicity, randomly created six sets of data, noting that we need to add datapoint data to the Children property of the Dataseries object and not add to the DataPoints property:

Add chart to container above: