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    Explore all of the features offered by FlexChart and WPF Toolkit Chart. You can download the matrix in PDF.

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    Chart Types

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Area ✓ ✓
    StackedArea ✓
    StackedArea100 ✓
    SplineArea ✓
    StackedSplineArea ✓
    StackedSplineArea100 ✓
    StepArea ✓
    Bar ✓ ✓
    StackedBar ✓
    Floating Bar ✓
    StackedBar100 ✓
    Bubble ✓ ✓
    CandleStick ✓
    Column ✓ ✓
    Combination charts ✓ ✓
    StackedColumn ✓
    StackedColumn100 ✓
    Stock/ HighLowOpenClose ✓
    Histogram ✓
    Pareto ✓
    Ranged Histogram ✓
    Line ✓
    LineStacked ✓
    LineStacked100 ✓
    Spline ✓
    SplineStacked ✓
    SplineStacked100 ✓
    Step ✓ ✓
    StepSymbols ✓ ✓
    LineSymbols ✓ ✓
    StackedLineSymbols ✓
    StackedLineSymbols100 ✓
    SplineSymbols ✓
    SplineSymbolsStacked ✓
    StackedSplineSymbols100 ✓
    Pie ✓ ✓
    Doughnut ✓
    PieExploded ✓
    DoughnutExploded ✓
    Point/ Scatter ✓ ✓
    Radar ✓ ✓
    Polar ✓ ✓
    Box-and-whisker ✓ ✓
    ErrorBar ✓ ✓
    Funnel ✓ ✓
    Sunburst ✓
    Waterfall ✓
    2D ✓ ✓
    Heikin-Ashi *
    LineBreak/ThreeLineBreak *
    Renko *
    Kagi *
    ColumnVolume *
    EquiVolume *
    CandleVolume *
    ArmsCandleVolume *

    Data Binding

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Objects implementing IEnumerable ✓ ✓

    Core Features

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Handle Empty/ Null Data Points ✓
    HitTest ✓ ✓
    Trendlines ✓
    Coordinate Conversion Methods ✓
    Annotations ✓
    Render Modes Default/Direct2D/Direct3D
    Batch Updates ✓
    Moving Average ✓
    Chart Optimization
    Load Animation ✓
    Transition Animation
    Grouping and Aggregation
    LineMarkers ✓ ✓
    Multiple axes ✓
    Multiple plot areas ✓

    Chart Features

    Features FlexChart MS Chart
    Annotations ✓ ✓
    Axis binding ✓ ✓
    Customizable data labels ✓ ✓
    Customizable headers and footers ✓ ✓

    Data Manipulations

    Features FlexChart MS Chart
    Aggregation With custom code ✓
    Sorting With custom code ✓
    TopN With custom code ✓

    Look & Feel

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Themes
    Predefined Palettes 16
    Custom Palette ✓
    Background Color ✓ ✓
    Background Image ✓ ✓
    Background Gradient ✓ ✓
    Border and Border Styles ✓ ✓

    Chart Area

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Header ✓ ✓
    Footer ✓
    Multiple Headers
    Header/ Footer Borders ✓ ✓
    Header/ Footer Alignment ✓
    Rotate ChartArea ✓
    Multiple Chart Areas
    Toggle Visibility
    PlotArea Collection

    Plot Area

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Plot margins ✓
    Markers for PlotElements Supported on FlexChart with LineSymbols/ SplineSymbols and Scatter chart types
    Markers Size ✓
    Plot Areas: Multiple
    Plot Elements: Background Image/ Gradient/Color ✓ ✓
    Plot Elements: Border and Border styling ✓
    LineMarkers/CrossHair

    Data Labels

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Offset ✓
    ConnectingLines ✓
    Borders and Border styling ✓
    Styling ✓
    Format String ✓
    Custom Content ✓
    Positions for Cartesian charts Bottom/ Center/ Left/ None/ Right/ Top
    Manage Overlapping ✓
    Positions for Pie charts Center/ Inside/ Outside/ None

    Axis

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Axes: Primary X/Y ✓ ✓
    Axes: Secondary X/Y ✓ ✓
    Axes: Multiple Secondary X/Y ✓ ✓
    Axis Label: Format strings ✓ ✓
    Axis Label: Hide ✓
    Axis Label: styling ✓
    Axis Range (Min/Max) values ✓ ✓
    Axis: Hide ✓ ✓
    Axis: Logarithmic ✓
    Axis: Reverse ✓
    AxisLine Styling ✓
    Labels: Angle ✓
    Labels: Manage overlapping ✓
    Major/ Minor GridLines ✓ ✓
    Major/ Minor TickMarks ✓ ✓
    Major/ Minor Units ✓ Only MajorUnit
    TickMarks Thickness
    TickMarks Styling ✓
    Title and Title Styling ✓ ✓
    Configure Origin Any value
    TickMarks Position Cross/ Inside/ Outside/ None
    Position Top/ Bottom/ Left/ Right/ Auto/ None Auto/Bottom/Left/Right/Top
    Axis Label: Custom
    ArrowHead styling
    Axis Label: Staggered
    ScaleBreaks
    Predefined DateTime Interval Types ✓
    Sort Order for CategoryAxis ✓

    Series

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Multiple Series ✓ ✓
    Data binding ✓ ✓
    Chart types at series level ✓
    Styling ✓ ✓
    Visibility Plot/ Legend/ Both Plot and Legend/ Hidden ✓
    Conditional Formatting ✓
    X and Y value functions
    RoundedRadius for Bar Charts
    Stacked charts ✓

    Legends

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Title ✓ ✓
    Title Style ✓
    Toggle Series Visibility from legend ✓
    Orientation Auto/ Vertical/ Horizontal
    Position Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom
    Custom Legend Items ✓
    Items Ordering
    Multiple Legends

    Marker Symbols

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Box ✓
    Cross ✓
    DiagonalCross
    Dot
    Diamond
    Triangle
    Star4
    Star8

    User Interactions

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Tooltips ✓ ✓
    Series selection ✓
    Point selection ✓ ✓
    Zooming ✓
    Scrolling ✓
    Drilldown With custom code With custom code
    Axis Scrollbar ✓
    Range Selector ✓
    Draggable Markers
    3D Chart Rotations

    Tooltips

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Auto tooltips ✓ ✓
    Custom content ✓
    Show Delay ✓
    Styling ✓
    Tooltips for different chart elements

    Pie Charts

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Exploded slices ✓
    Inner Radius ✓
    Starting Angle of first slice ✓

    Exporting, Importing & Printing

    Features FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Export to JPEG/ JPG ✓
    Export to PNG ✓
    Export to BMP ✓
    Export to GIF
    Export to TIFF
    Export to PDF
    Export to SVG
    Export to EMF
    Export to EMfDual
    Export to EMfPlus
    Export to WMP
    Save/ Load to Binary files
    Save/ Load to memory streams
    Save/ Load to XML
    Printing ✓ ✓

    Footprint

    Feature FlexChart WPF Toolkit Chart
    Assembly Size 144KB 276KB

    Pricing

    Feature FlexChart MS Chart
    Pricing $ $