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'Telerik.WinControls.UI.RadChart' is obsolete: 'RadChart is obsolete.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.

Learn about the new chart features in Q1 2013 SP1.

It’s been a while since we had our official Q1 2013 release and what a better way to show you what we've been working on than a Service Pack. Q1 2013 SP1 comes as a milestone in the development of our Chart control as it introduces a ton of new functionality (multiple axes, empty values, annotations etc.). In addition, Calendar now supports different date formats and can display the date in different calendars such as Hebrew, Hijri and many others. And finally, we've improved the integration between the DataBoundListBox and the Expander even further.

This is the first blog of a series where we will introduce the new Telerik Reporting Graph item powerful features. Let’s dig into its integral parts and powerful features, which will allow you to create amazing OLAP (and not only) charts quicker than ever

The modern perception of a chart’s behavior, performance, and visualization abilities are changing rapidly. New, easier to interpret charts, maps and geo visualizations are finding their way into becoming a standard for every business application. Rendering performance is becoming a key aspect. End-users are demanding new ways of interaction, such as interactive filtering and drilling of data. The change is happening now and Telerik Reporting will help you stay on top of the latest technology with its new OLAP charting engine.

With Q2 2012 release we shipped the first version of the RadHtmlChart control and, like any fledgling control, it did not have all the features you wanted to see, so we started working on them as soon as we got your feedback. We have promised we will add some of them in the Q3 2012 release (see our Roadmap), and I am glad to announce that we pushed hard and quite a lot of them are already available, far before the promised date :-) Let’s take a quick look around:

Client-side Events

This chart operates primarily on the client and it was inevitable that...

It’s yet another super exciting moment here at Telerik. We are once again ready to present you the next version of Windows Forms, now available for immediate download with the powerful Q2 2012 release of RadControls for WinForms. The second major edition of our toolbox for 2012 is packed with three brand-new controls, a slew of essential enhancements to the theming mechanism performance and memory usage, as well as various accessibility improvements.

Top new features across the Telerik’s WinForms suite include:

RadChartView - New lively chart control

The brand new ChartView control coming out-of-the-box facilitates data visualization, achieving stunning visual effects. On the...

With Q3 2011 release of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, a new data visualization control becomes part of the suite – RadOrgChart.

As the name suggests, RadOrgChart’s purpose is to visualize hierarchical structures of organizations in a nice graphical chart.

Here is a quick peek in the First Look demo (It’s pretty nice with the Transparent skin, isn’t it?):

Main Features

Let us see what is under the hood – what are the major features this control brings with its first version.

Data Binding

All the standard Data Sources, used with other RadControls (or WebForms server controls in general) are available for RadOrgChart as well.

Supported are:

• Declarative DataSources;
• Entity DataSource;
• Linq ...

With the release of Q2 2011 we here at Telerik are proud to announce the Chart Extension for ASP.NET MVC. This component has been designed from the ground up with a high focus on performance and cross-browser compatibility and is based off of SVG and VML (for browsers that do not support SVG). Many of you are probably interested in how you can start working with the chart and this blog post should help guide you along the first couple of steps.

Server Binding

Out-of-the-box the chart component can very easily bind to any supplied model on the server. If the view...

RadChart supported point mark visual indicators for chart series like Line, Area, Spline, etc. from version one, however, customization of these indicators was hard and certainly not for the faint-hearted. With the latest version of the control released this week (Q1 2009 SP1) we introduced two major improvements that significantly simplify the interaction with the point mark indicators.

 

Option 1: Customizing the appearance of the point marks through the PointMark API and predefined point mark shapes

RadChart supports 8 predefined shapes that you can use for the point marks (members of the Telerik.Windows.Controls.Charting.MarkerShape enumeration):

• Circle (default)
• Diamond
• Hexagon
• Triangle
• Square
• SquareRounded
• StarFiveRay
• StarEightRay

 

Here is a sample code snippet that demonstrates...