Chart FX for WPF
Styling/XAML Support
Producing eye-catching charts and layouts is especially important to captivate users
and draw them in to explore the data within an application. For the first time ever,
both developers and designers will be able to fully "style" chart elements and tightly
couple Chart FX for WPF to their application and user interface guidelines.
Chart FX for WPF exploits the openness of XAML, a descriptive markup language for
describing managed objects. In practical terms, XAML enables other development roles,
such as graphics designers and usability experts to contribute to the application
development process. For example, a designer opens and edits a Visual Studio project
in Microsoft's Expression Blend to gain access to drawings and animations without
its associated confusing code and callbacks. On the other hand, a developer need
not be concerned with how these drawings or animations work or how they were constructed.
Also, Chart FX exploits the WPF layout engine to allow chart elements to flow naturally
in the chart area; no chart element is absolutely positioned, allowing for more
flexible and intelligent resizing within the application.
Although XAML is used throughout Chart FX for WPF, you don't need specific XAML
knowledge to use Chart FX for WPF or to customize the Chart FX presentation or UI
layer. Much of this functionality has already been integrated or will be integrated
into the product. Nevertheless, XAML is going to become a factor that should at
least be familiar when developing WPF applications.
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Chart FX for WPF Beta 2
Chart FX for WPF Beta 2 offers greater stability, a forward-compatible Chart FX for WPF API, new visual features, 2 new chart types and a Go Live License that will allow early adopters to start embedding and deploying Chart FX for WPF in their applications.
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Silverlight Products
The Chart FX Silverlight Add-On extends Chart FX 7 and allows developers to add Chart FX functionality to their Silverlight web applications.
Chart FX for WPF Beta Resources
Click here to download the Chart FX for WPF Demo Application used in Tim Huckaby's presentation at TechEd 2008.
Download the latest .NET Framework which supports WPF development.
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