Creating Bar Charts

• Create a new BarChart by dragging the BarChart control at the top.
• Set the BarType to Clustered3D and BarSeriesLayout to BarSeriesLayout.InColumn. That will draw cluster bars in columns.

Adding Data

• Add the Data for the chart using the SeriesCollection editor. The sample uses 4 data arrays with three members each. The data is: 18,28,39;10,15,22;6,9,14;2,5,9
• Sort the data by setting the SortOrder to Ascending.

Setting labels

• Set the TopLabelType to LabelType.Data to show the number of each bar as top label.
• Set the LabelType property of the XAxisSettings object to AxisLabelType.CustomText to show custom labels at the X-axis.
• Add the X-labels as values for the ClusterLabels property. Write them separated by comma: "1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter, 4th quarter".
• Set the LabelType property of the YAxisSettings object to AxisLabelType.AutoScale.
• Set the format of the scale divisions for the Y-axis to Fixed_point_0Digits using the NumberFormat property of the YAxisSettings object.
• Set YAxisSettings.DrawZero to true to show the zero label.
• Set the font for the labels on both axes with LabelFont. The zero label uses the same format as the labels Fixed_point_0Digits.
• Add the title for the Y-axis: Write "in thousands" as TitleLabel in the YAxisSettings object.
• Set the orientation of the axis label for the Y-axis with YAxisSettings.TitleLabelOrientation. The sample uses TopToBottom.
• Set the font for the axis label at the Y-axis to Verdana, 12pt.
• Add labels for the legend - write "avg.  28.33,avg. 15.66,avg. 9.66,avg. 5.66 " in the LegendLabels field in the property browser.
• Set the LegendWidth to 500 so that all labels could fit in.
• Place the legend at the "Top" with LegendPosition. Align it with LegendAlignment to Center.
• Choose the font for the legend labels - "Verdana, 9pt."

Adding title

• Add the title of the chart with TitleText. Write in the property field "Sales for Year 2006".
• Choose font for the title with TitleFont - "Verdana, 14pt."

Setting brushes

• Add four brushes to the ChartBrushes property.
• Choose background for the plot area with PlotAreaBrush. Use the same brush for the background of the legend.
• Set the brush for the 3D axes with AxisShadowBrush.
• Set the background of the whole chart with BackgroundBrush.

See Also

Creating Line Charts
Creating Radar Charts
Creating Scatter Charts