It's been a few months since I posted my previous collection of Silverlight/WPF Charting links. In the meantime, the April 2010 release of the Silverlight Toolkit was published with support for stacked series and significant performance improvements! And Windows Phone 7 has been steadily building momentum - it's handy that the Data Visualization assembly also works on Windows Phone! So there's lots of good stuff - here are all the links (FYI: previously published links are gray):Overviews (100 level)
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- Silverlight Toolkit Released – More controls! - Tim Heuer's during the PDC keynote overview set the stage for good Charting content.
- Silverlight Toolkit (Silverlight 2 Control Pack) - Charting - Pete Brown followed up minutes later with another good overview. (Party trivia: The styles seen in his blog offer a rare glimpse of the pre-release Charting styles.)
- Silverlight - Introducing the Chart Control - Chad Campbell was also ready with a good "zero-day" overview and code samples.
- The Weekly Source Code 36 - PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting - Scott Hanselman's post includes a BabySmash tie-in and a smidge of flattery. :)
- Graphing – Silverlight Toolkit - Jesse Liberty introduces Charting and covers some of the basics.
- Bubble chart - Jesse Liberty introduces the BubbleSeries class and describes some interesting use-cases.
- The Bubble Chart in the Silverlight Toolkit - Sparkling Client interviews Jesse Liberty in this podcast discussing the BubbleSeries.
- Day #15: Silverlight Charting - Jeff Blankenburg gives a nice overview of Charting and demonstrates how easy it is to switch series types along the way.
- Getting started with the charting controls - The Silverlight SDK team has a nice overview that walks readers through creating their first chart from start to finish.
- Silverlight On Mobile : Charting on Windows Phone 7 - Vikram Pendse gives another good overview of Charting - and he's using Windows Phone to do it!
Scenarios (200 level)
- Zooming into a chart - Ruurd Boeke did the "zooming" scenario sample for the live Charting samples page - here's how he did it.
- Silverlight - Getting Started with the Chart Control - Chad Campbell again - a thorough walkthrough of creating your first chart.
- Silverlight 2 Custom Stock Charts With Silverlight Toolkit - Peter Bromberg with his own walkthrough - creating a stock chart with plenty of code.
- Styling the Charts in the Silverlight Toolkit - Pete Brown again - this time with a good styling overview for designers.
- Designer’s Guide to Styling Silverlight Toolkit Charting Controls - Mehdi Slaoui Andaloussi goes over the top with a "soup to nuts" designer-oriented guide to styling everything. It probably helps that Mehdi works on my team and authored the shipping styles for Charting as well. :)
- Pie Chart Styling in the Silverlight Toolkit - Cross-Slice Gradients - Pete Brown takes a proof-of-concept for holistic pie chart styling and uses it to great effect.
- Bubbles – 1 Chart – three Axes - Jesse Liberty takes advantage of BubbleSeries to visualize historical data in an interesting way.
- Customizing the Labels on an Axis of the Silverlight Toolkit Chart - Kevin Dockx calls out the AxisLabelStyle property which allows designers to easily customize the labels of an axis.
- Dazzling Silverlight Toolkit Pie Charts with Overlays - Pete Brown continues working with pie charts and creates a further level of polish by adding some shiny overlays that make the visuals "pop".
- Silverlight Charting: Creating rich data point tooltips - Jeff Wilcox shows how he customized the ToolTips of a LineSeries to show a wealth of information relevant information in a very user-friendly manner.
- Pie Chart and Column Chart videos post - Jesse Liberty demonstrates the use of PieSeries and ColumnSeries in a set of "How Do I" videos.
- Styling Charts with the Silverlight Toolkit - Pete Brown's comprehensive Expression Newsletter article provides some of the best information available anywhere about Charting styling!
- Styling a Silverlight Chart - Rudi Grobler shows how to re-style a LineSeries to look just like the Google Analytics charts.
- LineChart with Markers - Lee demonstrates one way of adding markers (also known as annotations or cursors) to a Chart.
- Showing and Hiding Series in chart - Lee neatly solves the problem of hiding (and showing) individual Series by clicking on their entries in the Legend.
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