Chart Class

Initializes a new instance of the Chart class.

Gets or sets the access key that allows you to quickly navigate to the Web server control.

Gets the browser-specific adapter for the control.

Gets or sets the alternate text displayed in the Chart control when the chart image is unavailable.

Gets or sets the AnnotationCollection object that is used to store chart annotations.

Gets or sets a value that determines whether anti-aliasing is used when text and graphics are drawn.

Gets or sets the application-relative virtual directory of the Page or UserControl object that contains this control.

Gets the collection of arbitrary attributes (for rendering only) that do not correspond to properties on the control.

Gets or sets the background color of the Chart object.

Gets or sets the orientation for the background gradient of a Chart control. Also determines whether a gradient is used.

Gets or sets the hatching style of the Chart control.

Gets or sets the background image of the Chart control.

Gets or sets the background image alignment used for the Unscaled drawing mode.

Gets or sets the color of the Chart control that will be displayed as transparent.

Gets or sets the drawing mode for the background image of the Chart control.

Gets or sets the secondary color of the chart background.

Gets the control that contains this control's data binding.

Gets or sets the color of the chart border.

Gets or sets the color of the entire chart image border.

Gets or sets the style of the entire chart image border line.

Gets or sets the width of the border line for the entire chart image.

Gets or sets a BorderSkin object, which provides border skin functionality for the Chart control.

Gets or sets the border style of the Chart.

Gets or sets the width of the chart border.

Gets the build number of the Chart control.

Gets a read-only ChartAreaCollection object that is used to store ChartArea objects.

Gets a value that indicates whether the server control's child controls have been created.

Gets the control ID for HTML markup that is generated by ASP.NET.

Gets or sets the algorithm that is used to generate the value of the ClientID property.

Gets a character value representing the separator character used in the ClientID property.

Gets or sets the amount of compression for the chart image.

Gets the HttpContext object associated with the server control for the current Web request.

Gets a ControlCollection object that represents the child controls for a specified server control in the UI hierarchy.

Gets the style of the Web server control. This property is used primarily by control developers.

Gets a value indicating whether a Style object has been created for the ControlStyle property. This property is primarily used by control developers.

Gets or sets the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) class rendered by the Web server control on the client.

Gets the URL of the current image into which the Chart control will be rendered.

Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming container implements IDataItemContainer.

Gets a reference to the naming container if the naming container implements IDataKeysControl.

Gets a DataManipulator object, which provides methods and properties that handle data.

Gets or sets the name of the list of data that the data-bound control binds to, in cases where the data source contains more than one distinct list of data items.

Gets or sets the data source for the Chart object.

Gets or sets the ID of the control from which the data-bound control retrieves its list of data items.

Gets an object that implements the IDataSource interface, which provides access to the object's data content.

Gets or sets the location of a detailed description of the Chart.

Gets a value indicating whether a control is being used on a design surface.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Web server control is enabled.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether themes apply to this control.

Gets or sets a flag that determines whether state management is enabled.

Gets a list of event handler delegates for the control. This property is read-only.

Gets the font properties of the control.

Gets or sets the text color of the Chart control.

Gets a value indicating whether the control has attributes set.

Gets a value indicating whether the current server control's child controls have any saved view-state settings.

Gets or sets the height of the entire chart image in pixels.

Gets or sets the programmatic identifier assigned to the server control.

Gets the character used to separate control identifiers.

Gets or sets the location where an image file is saved when ImageTag rendering is performed.

Gets a NamedImagesCollection object, which stores NamedImage objects for the chart.

Gets or sets the storage mode for the chart image rendering.

Gets or sets the type of image into which the chart is rendered if ImageTag rendering is used.

Gets a value indicating whether the data-bound control has been initialized.

Gets a value indicating whether the DataSourceID property is set.

Gets a value indicating whether controls contained within this control have control state.

Gets a value that indicates whether data binding is automatic.

Gets a value indicating whether the control is enabled.

Gets or sets a flag that determines whether map area attributes are encoded. The map area attributes can load data from various data sources. The Chart control does not prevent an end user from loading untrusted data from various data sources. For this reason, it is recommended that you validate the data and encode it yourself.

Gets or sets a flag that determines whether client-side image maps are enabled.

Gets or sets a flag that determines if a smooth gradient is applied when shadows are drawn.

Gets a value that indicates whether the server control is saving changes to its view state.

Gets a value that indicates whether model binding is in use.

Gets a value indicating whether view state is enabled for this control.

Gets or sets the name of the data item type for strongly typed data binding.

Gets or sets a LegendCollection object that is used to store all Legend objects used by the Chart control.

Gets a value indicating whether the control participates in loading its view state by ID instead of index.

Gets a MapAreasCollection object, which stores the map areas for the chart.

Gets a reference to the server control's naming container, which creates a unique namespace for differentiating between server controls with the same ID property value.

Gets a reference to the Page instance that contains the server control.

Gets or sets the palette for the Chart control.

Gets or sets an array of custom palette colors.

Gets a reference to the server control's parent control in the page control hierarchy.

Gets a value that specifies the ASP.NET version that rendered HTML will be compatible with.

Gets or sets the rendering method used to display a chart image.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the DataBind() method should be called.

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control should draw right-to-left for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages.

Gets a DataSourceSelectArguments object that the data-bound control uses when retrieving data from a data source control.

The name of the method to call in order to read data.

Gets a ChartSerializer object, which is used for chart serialization.

Gets a SeriesCollection object which contains Series objects.

Gets information about the container that hosts the current control when rendered on a design surface.

Gets or sets the skin to apply to the control.

Gets a collection of text attributes that will be rendered as a style attribute on the outer tag of the Web server control.

Gets a value that indicates whether the control should set the disabled attribute of the rendered HTML element to "disabled" when the control's IsEnabled property is false.

Gets or sets a flag that determines whether noncritical exceptions should be suppressed.

Gets or sets the tab index of the Web server control.

Gets the HtmlTextWriterTag value that corresponds to this Web server control. This property is used primarily by control developers.

Gets the name of the control tag. This property is used primarily by control developers.

Gets or sets a reference to the template that contains this control.

Gets the virtual directory of the Page or UserControl that contains the current server control.

Gets or sets the TextAntiAliasingQuality type to use when applying anti-aliasing to text.

Gets or sets a TitleCollection object which stores all Title objects used by the Chart control.

Gets or sets the text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the Web server control.

Gets the unique, hierarchically qualified identifier for the server control.

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control checks client input from the browser for potentially dangerous values.

Gets a dictionary of state information that allows you to save and restore the view state of a server control across multiple requests for the same page.

Gets or sets a value that determines the view state to be persisted at the client.

Gets or sets the user-defined view state of the control.

Gets a value that indicates whether the StateBag object is case-insensitive.

Gets or sets the view-state mode of this control.

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether a server control is rendered as UI on the page.

Gets or sets the width of the entire chart image in pixels.

Adds HTML attributes and styles that need to be rendered to the specified HtmlTextWriterTag. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Called after a child control is added to the Controls collection of the Control object.

Notifies the server control that an element, either XML or HTML, was parsed, and adds the element to the server control's ControlCollection object.

Aligns data points along the X axis using their axis labels. Applicable when multiple series are indexed and their X-values are strings.

Aligns data points using their axis labels. All series in the chart are aligned, using the specified sort order.

Aligns data points using their axis labels.

Aligns data points from different series along the X axis using their axis labels. The specified series in the chart are aligned using an ascending sort order.

Sets the automatically assigned series and data point colors, to allow programmatic access at run time.

Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, overwriting any existing style elements of the control. This method is primarily used by control developers.

Applies the style properties defined in the page style sheet to the control.

Begins design-time tracing of rendering data.

Gathers information about the server control and delivers it to the Trace property to be displayed when tracing is enabled for the page.

Sets the cached ClientID value to null.

Deletes the control-state information for the server control's child controls.

Deletes the view-state and control-state information for all the server control's child controls.

Deletes the view-state information for all the server control's child controls.

Sets the ClientIDMode property of the current control instance and of any child controls to Inherit.

Sets the initialized state of the data-bound control.

Copies the properties not encapsulated by the Style object from the specified Web server control to the Web server control that this method is called from. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Called by the ASP.NET page framework to notify server controls that use composition-based implementation to create any child controls they contain in preparation for posting back or rendering.

Creates a new ControlCollection object to hold the child controls (both literal and server) of the server control.

Creates the style object that is used internally by the WebControl class to implement all style related properties. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Creates a default DataSourceSelectArguments object used by the data-bound control if no arguments are specified.

Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child controls.

Binds a data source to the invoked server control and all its child controls with an option to raise the DataBinding event.

Binds a data source to the server control's child controls.

Data binds a chart to the table, with one series created per unique value in a given column.

Data binds a chart to the table, with one series created per unique value in a given column.

Automatically creates and binds series data to the specified data table, and optionally populates X-values.

Automatically creates and binds series data to the specified data table.

Disposes of the object, using the IDisposable interface.

Releases unmanaged and, optionally, managed resources.

Ends design-time tracing of rendering data.

Determines whether the server control contains child controls. If it does not, it creates child controls.

Calls the DataBind() method if the DataSourceID property is set and the data-bound control is marked to require binding.

Creates an identifier for controls that do not have an identifier assigned.

Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.

Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified id and an integer, specified in the pathOffset parameter, which aids in the search. You should not override this version of the FindControl method.

Searches the current naming container for a server control with the specified id parameter.

Sets input focus to a control.

Returns the chart element outline.

Retrieves a DataSourceView object that the data-bound control uses to perform data operations.

Retrieves the IDataSource interface that the data-bound control is associated with, if any.

Gets design-time data for a control.

Serves as the default hash function.

Returns the HTML image map of the currently rendered chart. One of the overloaded SaveImage methods in the Chart must be called before calling this method.

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters.

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters.

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route name.

Gets the URL that corresponds to a set of route parameters and a route name.

Returns the requested chart service.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Returns the prefixed portion of the UniqueID property of the specified control.

Determines if the server control contains any child controls.

Returns a value indicating whether events are registered for the control or any child controls.

Determines whether a chart element that is one of the specified types is located at a point defined by the given X and Y coordinates.

Determines the chart element, if any, that is located at a point defined by given X and Y coordinates. Transparent elements can optionally be ignored.

Determines whether a chart element of a given type is located at a point defined by the given X and Y coordinates.

Determines the chart element, if any, that is located at a point defined by the given X and Y coordinates.

Determines if the server control holds only literal content.

Restores control-state information from a previous page request that was saved by the SaveControlState() method.

Loads a template into the Chart control from an image stream.

Loads a template with the specified filename from the disk.

Restores view-state information from a previous page request that was saved by the SaveViewState() method.

Retrieves the physical path that a virtual path, either absolute or relative, maps to.

Sets the state of the control in view state as successfully bound to data.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Copies any nonblank elements of the specified style to the Web control, but will not overwrite any existing style elements of the control. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Determines whether the event for the server control is passed up the page's UI server control hierarchy.

Invokes delegates that were registered with the Click event.

Raises the CreatingModelDataSource event.

Occurs when all chart data is prepared to be customized before drawing.

Occurs when all chart legend data is prepared to be customized before drawing.

Occurs when map areas data is prepared to be customized before drawing.

Raises the DataBinding event.

Raises the DataBound event.

Rebinds the data-bound control to its data after one of the base data source identification properties changes.

Raises the DataSourceViewChanged event.

Occurs when converting a numeric value to a string.

Handles the Init event.

Handles the Load event.

Sets the initialized state of the data-bound control before the control is loaded.

Occurs after a chart element is painted.

Occurs after the chart element background is painted.

Handles the PreRender event.

Raises the Unload event.

Gets a Stream used to read a file.

Draws the chart image in the graphics.

Data binds the specified data source to the Chart control.

Retrieves data from the associated data source.

Assigns any sources of the event and its information to the control's parent.

Raises events for the Chart control when a form is posted back to the server.

Called after a child control is removed from the Controls collection of the Control object.

Renders the Chart control to the output parameter specified.

Renders the HTML opening tag of the control to the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Outputs the content of a server control's children to a provided HtmlTextWriter object, which writes the content to be rendered on the client.

Renders the contents of the control to the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object using a provided ControlAdapter object.

Outputs server control content to a provided HtmlTextWriter object and stores tracing information about the control if tracing is enabled.

Renders the HTML closing tag of the control into the specified writer. This method is used primarily by control developers.

Resets automatically calculated chart property values to "Auto".

Gets the control adapter responsible for rendering the specified control.

Gets a URL that can be used by the browser.

Converts a URL into one that is usable on the requesting client.

Saves any server control state changes that have occurred since the time the page was posted back to the server.

Saves the chart image to the specified stream.

Saves the chart image to the specified stream. The properties ImageType, Compression and other Chart control properties are used.

Saves a chart image to the file.

Saves the chart image to the specified file. The properties ImageType, Compression and other Chart control properties are used.

Saves any server control view-state changes that have occurred since the time the page was posted back to the server.

Saves the current state of the chart to an XML file. This method is mainly used for support purposes. The executing thread must have file write permission.

Sets design-time data for a control.

Assigns an event handler delegate to render the server control and its content into its parent control.

Sets trace data for design-time tracing of rendering data, using the traced object, the trace data key, and the trace data value.

Sets trace data for design-time tracing of rendering data, using the trace data key and the trace data value.

Returns a string that represents the current object.

Causes view-state changes to the control to be tracked so they can be stored in the control's StateBag object.

Verifies that a data-bound control can work with the object it will bind to.

Occurs when data methods are being called.

Occurs when the active image map area defined by PostBackValue on the Chart control is clicked.

Occurs when the ModelDataSource object is being created.

Occurs just before the chart image is drawn. All chart data is available and all chart properties have been set.

Occurs just before the chart legend is drawn. Use this event to customize the chart legend items.

Occurs just before the chart image map is rendered. Use this event to customize the map areas items.

Occurs when the server control binds to a data source.

Occurs after the server control binds to a data source.

Occurs when a server control is released from memory, which is the last stage of the server control lifecycle when an ASP.NET page is requested.

Called when a numeric value has to be converted to a string.

Occurs when the server control is initialized, which is the first step in its lifecycle.

Occurs when the server control is loaded into the Page object.

Occurs after chart element was drawn. This event is raised for elements such as ChartArea and Legend.

Occurs after the chart element background is drawn. This event is raised for elements such as ChartArea and Legend.

Occurs after the Control object is loaded but prior to rendering.

Occurs when the server control is unloaded from memory.

Gets an attribute of the Web control with the specified name.

Sets an attribute of the Web control to the specified name and value.

For a description of this member, see ControlBuilder.

For a description of this member, see GetDesignModeState().

For a description of this member, see SetDesignModeState(IDictionary).

For a description of this member, see SetOwnerControl(Control).

For a description of this member, see UserData.

For a description of this member, see DataBindings.

For a description of this member, see HasDataBindings.

For a description of this member, see Expressions.

For a description of this member, see HasExpressions.

For a description of this member, see AddParsedSubObject(Object).

Raises events for the Chart control when a form is posted back to the server.

Enables selection to be persisted in data controls that support selection and paging.

Returns the data source that is associated with the data control for the specified control.

Returns the field template for the specified column in the specified control's naming container.

Returns the metatable object for the containing data control.