Yes, this can be done: On your PieSeries, set the LabelBinding property to let the series know what you want to be displayed in the label. If you are using StringDouble as your data items, you would use LabelBinding=”{Binding String}”. Or if you are using your own data point objects, you can set the binding to the appropriate property on your objects that holds the label.

Next set the PieSeries.ShowDataLabels property to true to actually allow the labels to be displayed. You can customize the positions of the labels in two ways: Either set ShowDataLabelLines to true to display the labels outside the pie chart with lines connecting the labels to the appropriate slice, or set DataLabelOffsetFactor to position the label within the pie slices. 0.5 for example will place the labels in the center of each slice.

Finally, make sure to set PieChart.LegendPosition to None to hide the legend.

Optionally, you can set the PieSeries.DataLabelStyle property to customize the look of the labels.

First of all thanks, it was too ease to work on with it.

Is there any way so that the item names can be displayed corresponding to pie chart slices rather that on right side of the chart?

Looking forward for your help.

Thanks & Regards,

I have double checked and can see the StringDouble class does exist. It is in the Mindscape.MetroElements.Charting namespace.

Thanks for your feedback. We will definitely be resolving the design time issues during the beta period. I’ll make sure my next tutorial blog is about area series and styling customizations.

Jason

First of all, congrats guys, this is really easy to use!

Although I’d like to see some posts about the AreaSeries and especially about how to style these charts.
Sadly nor VisualStudio neither Blend can display the Beta controls on my PC (because of an OutOfMemoryException). And it makes it hard to customize them. :(

thanks,
Tenshiko