Nevron Chart for .NET Q3_2008

Nevron Chart for .NET Q3_2008 is a powerful software which includes extensible, efficient and rich feature. It wraps a vast amount of features in an intuitive and straightforward programming model. The component can display virtually any 2D or 3D chart including: Bar, Line, Step Line, Area, Pie, Point, Bubble, Stock, Floating Bar, Radar, Polar, High Low, Mesh Surface, Grid Surface, Shape, Smooth Line, Float Bar, Venn and Error with many variations (like Scatter XY and XYZ Line, Stacked Bars etc.).

Other charting features include scrollable axes, integrated legend, chart annotations, watermarks and very extensible chart layout manager.

The component features fullAJAX support, Visual Studio design time support with many advanced features like style editors allowing you to quickly modify the chart with the visual interface only.

The control also includes a custom toolbar and an integrated data grid components that can come handy in advanced charting applications requiring high degrees of interactivity features.

Major Features:

1. Common Features for the WinForm and WebForm editions
   • The only chart for .NET which can display distinct looking charts with presentation "out of the box" quality, without sacrificing speed.
   • Ability to display the following charting types:
   • • Bar - Clustered, Stacked, Stacked%, XYZ scatter stack and XYZ scatter cluster multi bar modes. Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles. Support for cluster stack combinations.
     • Line - line series can be displayed as simple lines, tape, tube or stretched ellipsoids. Overlapped, Stacked and Stacked% multi line modes are supported. XY Scatter mode.
     • Area - Stacked and Stacked% multi area modes are supported. XY Scatter mode. Supports markers.
     • Pie - Visualized as standard pies, torus segments or smooth edge pies. Rim, center or spider modes for pie data labels.
     • Point - Points can be visualized as bar, cylinder , cone , inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported.
     • Bubble - Bubbles can be visualized as bar, cylinder , cone , inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported.
     • Stock - Stick and candle styles are supported. Open High Low and Close High Low chart subtypes are also supported. XY Scatter mode (date time stocks).
     • Floating Bar - Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles.
     • Radar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers.
     • Polar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers. Radian and degree label formatting.
     • High Low - High low area with built-in appearance logic. Supports markers. XY scatter mode is also supported (date time range chart).
     • Grid Surface - A surface connecting data points with custom Y coordinates, ordered in a regular rectangular grid. The surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Several frame styles are supported: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be displayed with uniform color or synchronized with the palette. Support for flat surface (contour chart).
     • Mesh Surface - A surface connecting data points with custom X, Y, Z coordinates, ordered in a irregular grid. The surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Several frame styles are supported: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be displayed with uniform color or synchronized with the palette. Support for flat surface (contour chart).
     • Triangulated Surface - A surface connecting data points with custom X, Y, Z coordinates. Irregular triangular network is automatically created. The surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Custom color can be assigned to each data point. Several frame styles are supported: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be displayed with uniform color or synchronized with the palette. Support for flat surface (contour chart).
     • Shape - A versatile shape rendering series. The ultimate scatter plotter. Can display shapes with the following styles: Smooth edge, cut edge bar, pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone. The user controls the (X, Y, Z) position of the shape as well as its size along the X,Y and Z dimensions. Can also be used for complex composite object rendering.
     • Smooth Line (Spline) - 2D Smooth Line, 3D Smooth Line, XY Scatter Smooth Line, XYZ Scatter Smooth Line.
     • Smooth Area (Spline Area) - 2D Smooth Area, 3D Smooth Area, XY / Date-Time Smooth Area
     • Float bar (also called Gantt) - Date Time float bar, Date Time Clustered Float Bar.
     • Venn - 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. Venn set.
     • Step Line - 2D Step Line, 3D Step Line, DateTime Step Line
     • Error Bar - Y Error Bar, XY Error Bar, XYZ Error Bar
     • Funnel - Funnel charts are often used to represent stages in a sales process and show the amount of potential revenue for each stage. This type of chart can be useful also in identifying potential problem areas in an organization’s sales processes. A funnel chart is similar to a stacked percent bar chart.
     • Box and Whiskers - Box and whiskers plots are very helpful in interpreting the distribution of data. Each box and whiskers item represents a set of values and displays statistical information for it like minimum, maximum and median values, upper and lower quartiles, outliers and optionally a mean value.
     • Kagi - Kagi is a type of financial chart that illustrates the forces of supply and demand on a security. It is focused on price action and disregards the passage of time.
     • Renko - Renko is a type of financial chart that is very effective for traders to identify key support and resistance levels. It filters minor price movements and emphasizes on general trends.
     • Point and Figure - Point and Figure is a type of financial chart that is designed to filter non-significant price changes and to focus on the main price trends. Point and Figure charts are usually used for longer term price movements.
     • Three Line Break - Three Line Break is a price change financial chart that is similar in concept to Kagi, Renko and Point and Figure.
     • Line Studies - Line Studies are lines and various geometric figures that are plotted in price charts or in indicator charts. They are used as analytical instruments helping to define channels, support and resistance levels, trend changes and to forecast price dynamics. Line studies supported by Nevron Chart for .NET - Fibonacci Arcs, Fibonacci Fans, Fibonacci Retracements, Quadrant Lines, Speed Resistance Lines and Trendline.
   • Integrated Gauges
   • • The component supports radial and linear gauges with lots of extensions like border, markers, needles and range indicators.
   • Flexible integrated legend
   • • Lots of predefined styles, positions and data layout strategies. Header and Footer.
   • Built in Functions and Formula support
   • • The component has extensive custom formula support with 50+ predefined functions including commonly used financial indicators like:Relative Strength Index, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Momentum, Stochastic Oscillator, Directional Movement System, Moving Averages, etc.
   • Full Visual Studio design time support
   • • State of art editors. Improved wizard. Creating a chart based on template and modifying its data and other settings takes not more than a few minutes.
   • Editors available at runtime
   • • All design time editors are available at runtime including the Wizard.
   • Excel like fill effect editors
   • • You can not only specify any filling you can specify in Excel but you can also visually create any custom gradient with the built-in advanced gradient editor.
   • Advanced control over the axis scaling and position
   • • Static and dynamic axis positioning strategies and settings. Lots of predefined text layout schemes. 4 scaling modes - DateTime, Numeric, Logarithmic and Dimension scale. Paging with lots of customizations.
   • Axis labeling abilities
   • • Stripes, constant lines as planes or simple lines, custom axis labels, axis cursors, range selections.
   • Ability to display several charting types simultaneously
   • • Advanced chart margins and fit strategy control.
   • Ability to display several series simultaneously
   • • Making a chart type combination chart has never been easier and more flexible.
   • Ability to display multiple charts and legends in the component canvas
   • • Charts can be described on one or more legends. Legends can describe multiple charts.
   • Image borders
   • • Fancy skin effects which add this such important final touch to your chart image.
   • Watermarks
   • • Ideal for company logos and trademarks - can be displayed on top or behind the chart image with user controlled transparency.
   • Labels
   • • Headers, footers as well as custom positioned labels.
   • Numeric Display
   • • Displays numeric information in LED fashion with several predefined styles. Allows for full control over the appearance and formatting of the displayed value.
   • Interactivity
   • • Trackball, zoom, offset, mouse cursor change, mouse tooltips and more.
   • Drill Down capabilities
   • • Extensive drill down support. Lots of events for both WinForms and WebForms.
   • Advanced 3D view control
   • • 360 degrees rotation, viewer rotation, orthogonal and perspective projections, offset, zoom as well as a lot of predefined projection schemes.
   • Advanced control over the scene lighting
   • • Lots of predefined lighting schemes. Up to 9 light sources. Spot and Directional light.
   • 21. Integrated layout manager
   • • Support for docking, nesting and anchoring of panels. AutoSize and custom size, bounds mode and more makes the creation of complex, scaleable layouts easy and comprehensible.
   • Measurement Unit support
   • • All styles and lengths are specified as a pair of value and measurement unit. More than 20 different measurement units (pixel, inch, millimeter, display etc.).
   • Annotation support
   • • Annotation support that also allows nesting of panels and anchoring panels to key elements of the chart like data points or legend data items. Arrow, Rectangular Callout, Rounded Rectangular callout, Cut edge rectangular callout and Oval callout.
   • Advanced logic features and services.
   • • Master slave axes, master slave range selections and master slave cursors
   • Modular design.
   • • Build on top of the Nevron Presentation Framework and Nevron DOM (Document Object Model) Framework. Custom binary and XML structured serialization.
   • SVG support
   • • Nevron chart can export images with interactive features in SVG format.
   • Data Binding
   • • Support for data binging to DataSet, DataTable, DataAdapter, DataView and custom data sources that implement the IBingingList interface and (optionally) the ITypedList interface.
2. Windows Forms specific features
   • Built in UI components
   • • Grid and Toolbar components for WinForms. The grid is data aware and supports true date time editing as well as fill effect, line style and cursor type editing. The most frequently used commands are exposed by the Toolbar, which also supports custom buttons and runtime visual configuration.
   • Ability to leverage the video board hardware acceleration
   • • This feature is very useful for real time applications because it frees your CPU from drawing the chart and transfers all the rendering to the CPU of the video board.
   • Print Manager
   • • Advanced built-in printing and print - preview support.
3. ShowWeb Forms specific features
   • ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 support (VS 2005 Specific)
   • • Nevron web controls allow AJAX callback handling of the following mouse events: click, double click, move, down and up. Also, the web controls can be forcibly refreshed at client-side and auto-refresh feature is available. For more details on AJAX in Nevron web controls refer the AJAX topic.
   • Server side events (postback) and HTML image maps
   • • The image maps generated by the component can display tooltips, redirect the client browser to a specified URL or change the mouse cursor.
   • Server side persistency
   • • The component can preserve its state across roundtrips.
   • Ability to inject custom client side script
   • • With the help of this feature you can seamlessly integrate the image maps generated from the component with any type of client side VBScript or JScript.
   • Ability to directly stream an image to the client browser
   • • This is an indispensable feature when building scalable and secure server side applications.
   • Built-in temporary file clean up
   • • The component automatically detects when a temporary file is expired and deletes it from the server. You can also assign disk space usage quota for the directory holding the temporary files in order to ensure that you cannot exceed the space used by your web server application.
   • Built-in browser detection
   • • By leveraging the power of the .NET regular expressions you can instruct the component to generate different responses depending on the browser accessing the page.

Enhancements:

• Mixing 2D and 3D charting types in one chart control
• Each chart panel now supports the Enable3D property allowing you to dynamically switch the chart rendering from 2D to 3D and vice versa. This feature allows mixing of 2D and 3D charts in a single chart control.
• Axis Ruler Caps
  Axis rulers can now be decorated with begin and end cap style allowing the visualization of scientifically looking charts. Additional features include the ability to break the ruler painting if it crosses a scale break, increasing chart readability.
  
• Custom Value and Range Labels
  You can now add custom value or range labels. This feature can be very useful when you have to explicitly denote values or ranges on the scale. Value and range labels come up with a variety of customization options including controllable visibility and tick style as well as the ability to mix the automatic labels with the custom ones in one scale level.
  
• Hierarchical Scales
  This is a new type of scale configurator utilizing the range labels feature in order to create scales with hierarchical (tree) structure. This type of scale is widely used when you have to display grouped categorical data.
  
• Value and Range Timeline Scales
  Timeline configurators allow you to configure a scale to display date/time information by decorating the scale using several date/time units. By doing this the scale becomes more informative to the end user as it allows him/her to view important date/time events that happen inside the date/time range displayed by the scale.
  
• XML Formatted Text Improvements
  The XML formatted text specification has been extended to support the shape tags allowing you to insert shapes with controllable fill, stroke and shadow in any text displayed by the component.
  
• Automatic Walls Visibility
  The walls of the chart when working in 3D mode can dynamically change their visibility depending on the user viewpoint so that they do not obscure the chart content. This feature is very useful when you want to give the user the ability to look at a chart from a different angle and want to ensure that the chart content remains completely visible.
  
• Automatic Axis Position
  The axes of the chart when working in 3D mode can dynamically choose a dock zone depending on the user viewpoint so that they do not obscure the chart content.
  
• Pie Chart Improvements
  The pie chart series can now render pies with the following new shapes Ring, Smooth Edge Ring and Cut Edge Ring.
  
• Range Sliders
  The axis scrollbar is extended to support range sliders thus allowing the user to change the visible axis range with the mouse.
  
• Polar Chart Improvements
  The Polar chart has been improved to support docking of angle axis on the outer rim of the polar chart as well as docking of value axes to the sides of the polar. Value axis support reflection painting, which allows for better readability of polar charts. A new scale configurator has been added to address the specifics of dynamic angle step calculation and decoration. In addition polar charts now support line, area and point series.
  
• Radar Chart Improvements
  The Radar chart has been extended to support scaling of multi dimensional data.
  
• Light Model Improvements
  The light model now allows for easier configuration of point, spot and directional light sources. The position of each light source can be in model or camera space. Several new lighting schemes are added to the predefined light schemes supported by the component.
  
• Compatible with IIS7
  Nevron Chart now meets the new requirements of IIS7 and can be safely deployed to IIS7 servers.
  
• Dynamic Image Size
  In AJAX mode the Nevron web controls can be resized dynamically through asynchronous requests.
  
• Image map with Instant Callback
  Because the Nevron Instant Callback cannot read result data from the server when a request completes, the client side image map cannot be update dynamically. There are cases, though, such as toolbars or other navigation elements, when an image map is required but it does not change over time. Now the Nevron web controls generate an initial image map also when using Instant Callbacks, extending the range of cases, when Instant Callbacks can be used to optimize the application performance.
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Optimization
  The JavaScript files that are loaded by the Nevron web controls at the client are extensively optimized in size, which speeds up the initial parsing of the code, saves traffic and reduces the file transfer time.
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Documentation
  Full code reference is available for the client side JavaScript library that is used to enable AJAX for the Nevron web controls. The reference allows Nevron clients to extend the Nevron JavaScript Library and to empower their scripts by the rich functionality that this library offers.
  
• Nevron JavaScript Library Extensibility
  The Nevron JavaScript Library comes with full code reference and can be used for custom JavaScript development. Custom commands and tools can be implemented to extend the built-in functionality.
  
• Extended JavaScript Diagnostics Capabilities
• The Nevron JavaScript Library provides a rich set of diagnostic utilities for developers.

Requirements:.NET Framework 2.0 / 3.x

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