As you may know from following this blog, we’ve been releasing parts of our Silverlight Charting controls on a nightly basis with Silverlight Elements. Last week I talked about the initial charts – Line, Bar, Pie and Doughnut. Keeping up with almost live-blogging the changes as they’re being released, today I’m pleased to announce some of the new chart types that are available immediately to Silverlight Elements users.
Some of the new features include:
And of course the new charts which, I think, are best described with visuals…
Bubble charts:
Multiple bubble series:
Stacked line area charts:
Stacked bar series:
Stacked bar series with a custom bar style:
Stacked bar series in horizontal orientation:
Scatter charts:
Multiple scatter charts:
Stacked line charts:
Spline charts (Smooths the line):
Stacked spline charts:
Stacked spine area charts:
Phew – not bad for a weekly update I don’t think! :-) We have been asked if using the charting is currently supported – absolutely. They’re not completely finished, but if you do use them and have feedback or find bugs then we’ll be there to help you out so please – dig in :-)
You can try the charts with the trial of Silverlight Elements or if you’re a customer, grab your nightly build from the store here.
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Nice.
Will the splines chart reticulate?
Splines are pre-reticulated for performance reasons ;-)
I was wondering how long before somebody referenced Sim City 2000. What was that – five minutes? :-D
Will the Silverlight controls be completely finished before they are ported to WPF Elements?
Are you able to discuss timelines?
Multi scatter is nice.
Thanks
Hello Joe
Indeed we plan to finish off the Silverlight version of the charting before porting it to WPF. We aim to finish the Silverlight version in about 2 weeks. No promises, but you can expect to see WPF charts within 3 or 4 weeks from now.
Regards
– Jason
Jason,
Thanks. I will start giving John a hard time in 3 weeks if it isn’t ready. :)
Seriously, The time frame sounds great. I will be looking forward to seeing it.
You crack that whip Joe ;-)
hope to see some speedometer-like controls
Hey David
Speedometers and other gauges are on our list of things to do. We do not yet have an estimated release date though.
– Jason
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