MindFusion.Charting for WPF Programmer's Guide
Building a 3D Pie Chart

This tutorial will walk you through the steps to create a 3D pie chart with two data series. Pie data is read through data binding.

1. Create the pie chart

You can create the chart in the XAML editor by dragging the icon for the 3D pie chart and dropping it at your work area. Alternatively, you can create the chart through code:

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PieChart3D pChart = new PieChart3D();
Grid.SetRow(pChart, 0);
Grid.SetColumn(pChart, 0);
myGrid.Children.Add(pChart);

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Dim pChart As PieChart3D = New PieChart3D
Grid.SetRow(pChart, 0)
Grid.SetColumn(pChart, 0)
myGrid.Children.Add(pChart)

2. Create the PieSeries

Each chart has initially a default series - we clear it and create our two pie series from scratch:

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pieChart3D1.Series.Clear();

PieSeries series1 = new PieSeries();
pieChart3D1.Series.Add(series1);

PieSeries series2 = new PieSeries();
pieChart3D1.Series.Add(series2);

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pieChart3D1.Series.Clear

Dim series1 As PieSeries = New PieSeries
pieChart3D1.Series.Add(series1)

Dim series2 As PieSeries = New PieSeries
pieChart3D1.Series.Add(series2)

The data for the pie chart is taken from an ObservableCollection called sales. It has two fields - Profit and Turnover that will provide data for the pie series:

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pieChart3D1.DataSource = "sales";

series1.DataPath = "Profit";
series2.DataPath = "Turnover";

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pieChart3D1.DataSource = "sales"

series1.DataPath = "Profit"
series2.DataPath = "Turnover"

3. Set the labels

We want to show the percent value for each slice inside it. For this we use the InnerLabelType property. We adjust the location of the labels with InnerLabelLocation. The font is bold.

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series1.InnerLabelLocation = 0.7;
series1.InnerLabelType = LabelType.Percents;
series1.LabelFontWeight = FontWeights.Bold;

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series1.InnerLabelLocation = 0.7
series1.InnerLabelType = LabelType.Percents
series1.LabelFontWeight = FontWeights.Bold

4. Customizing the appearance

We increase the thickness of the doughnut series with DoughnutThickness and create a set of brushes for the slices:

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pieChart3D1.DoughnutThickness = 2;

List<Brush> brushes = new List<Brush>();
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightBlue);
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightGreen);
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightPink);
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightYellow);
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightSalmon);
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightCyan);

series1.Fills = brushes;
series2.Fills = brushes;

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pieChart3D1.DoughnutThickness = 2

Dim brushes As List(Of Brush) = New List(Of Brush)
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightBlue)
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightGreen)
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightPink)
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightYellow)
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightSalmon)
brushes.Add(Brushes.LightCyan)

series1.Fills = brushes
series2.Fills = brushes

Here is the final chart:

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