The following message prompts when you run your RadChart for WinForms-enabled project against the latest version of Telerik's WinForms toolkit:

'Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadChart' is obsolete: 'RadChart is obsolete. Please use RadChartView instead.'

I know that a lot of questions come to your mind at this very moment. “What happens now? What does RadChartView supports? How do I upgrade to RadChartView? Can my current RadChart implementation stay in my project?”. Read more to find out what the present and future hold for RadChart and RadChartView.

Here comes another dose of our “What’s new in Q1 2013” series. After we showed you how to get the most out of our PDF Viewer, we’ll present to you top three new features you’ll love about RadChartView.

If you have read our blog post from earlier this week, waiting for the Q1 2013 bits with high anticipation, then the wait is over! Q1 2013 is alive and kicking ready to energize your applications with a wide range of new functionality and improvements.

Just a few days remain until the official unveiling of our 2013 Q1 release. Be the first, to take a glimpse into the pack of hot stuff we baked for you.

One of the coolest features packed in RadPivotGrid is its seamless integration with RadChartView. It enables you to provide your end-users with an intuitive and easy way to graph their Pivot Tables data. The following tutorial explores some basic scenarios of pivot grid with charts integration, showing you how to apply various customizations so you can meet any customer requirement. Click to continue

It is only a few days since the 2012 Q3 release of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF and we have something new to show you. Here in Telerik we really appreciate feedback from you, the customer. Following this feedback we revamped our ChartDataSource to include the most desired features and we also significantly improved performance.

Let’s start with a few words on the ChartDataSource itself. If you are familiar with it you can safely skip this section and move directly to the goodies. The ChartDataSource is a companion control, designed to work together with our new charting solution –...

The third major release of RadControls for WinForms for 2012 features a brand-new control that adds advanced data analysis capabilities to your applications and enriched chart control enabling you to easily deliver real-time actionable insights to your end-users. You also get many new features that provide you with an easy path to Visual Studio 2012 productivity with Telerik’s WinForms. We also packed all levels of coded UI test support, including code generation and intent aware actions to help you build strong and safe applications more quickly. Continue reading through the highlights below to take a glimpse into the latest additions...

Financial Charts

Do you develop financial applications for WinForms? Do they need a visual boost in terms of financial charts and indicators? If the answers to these two questions are ‘yes’, then you will be definitely eager to meet the improvements in RadChartView coming in the soon-to-be-released Q3 2012. For this release we developed two types of financial series – Candlestick series and OHLC stick series. In addition, to aid the raw stick data, we have added a bunch of financial indicators that will allow end-users to easily visualize the trends exactly the way they want.

Touch Support

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I guess you are following us closely, so you are aware of the great RadChartView control introduced in Q2 2012 which aims to replace the old RadChart implementation. Today, I would like to introduce two cool RadChartView features and demonstrate how you can engage them. Namely, these features are Trackball and Selection.

Trackball

So, what is Trackball? Trackball displays a vertical line across the chart plot area and also displays little visual indicators (circles by default) at points where the trackball line crosses the visualization of a series object. For example when the trackball line crosses a line series line segment, a...