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.

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.

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."

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."

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.

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