Chart Examples

• Jul 20, 2025
• 6 minutes to read

This section provides a list of examples, contained in this help, that are grouped by features (General, Creating Charts, Chart Elements, End-User Features and Producing Output).

General

• How to: Add a Chart to a Windows Forms Application

Creating Charts

Providing Data

• How to: Bind Individual Chart Series to Data
• How to: Bind Individual Chart Series to Data (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Bind a Chart to Data Using Series Templates
• How to: Bind a Chart to Data Using Series Templates (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Individually Change the View Type of Automatically Created Series
• How to: Change Colors of Automatically Created Series
• How to: Bind Series to Data and Display Them In Separate Panes (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Bind a Chart to an MDB Database (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Bind a Chart to an Array List
• How to: Bind a Chart to an XML Data Source
• How to: Bind a Chart to an XPO Data Source
• How to: Link a Chart to the PivotGridControl’s Data Source
• How to: Colorize Charts Using the Color Object Colorizer
• How to: Colorize Charts Using the Key-Color Colorizer
• How to: Colorize Charts Using the Range Colorizer
• How to: Plot an XY Series with a Histogram in a Chart

Data Representation

• How to: Change the Display Format for Series Labels of a Pie Chart
• How to: Change the Display Format for Axis Labels
• How to: Change the Display Format for Axis Labels (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Show Currency Values in the Legend of a Pie Chart
• How to: Filter Data
• How to: Create a Custom Summary Function
• How to: Show N Top Points as a Single Section in a Pie Chart
• How to: Use Automatic Date-Time Scale Modes of an Axis
• How to: Obtain Values Calculated for Automatic Axis Date-Time Scale Modes
• How to: Exclude Weekends and Holidays from the Axis Scale
• How to: Specify the Appearance of the Pie Chart Using Its Pattern at Runtime
• How to: Display Qualitative Scale Values Sorted in a Custom Sort Order
• How to: Use Custom Measure Units in an Automatic Date-Time Scale Mode
• How to: Use Custom Measure Units in an Automatic Numeric Scale Mode
• How to: Show a Tooltip with a Series Point’s Data

Appearance Customization

• How to: Customize a Chart’s Appearance
• How to: Customize the Appearance of a Chart’s Legend
• How to: Customize Gridlines and Tickmarks of an Axis
• How to: Customize the Appearance of a Pane’s Scroll Bar (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Custom Draw Series
• How to: Custom Draw Series Points
• How to: Conditionally Hide Series Labels
• How to: Make Series Labels Display Custom Information
• How to: Avoid Overlapping of Series Labels
• How to: Change the Names for Auto-Created Series
• How to: Custom Draw a Crosshair Cursor
• How to: Display Axis Labels Between Tickmarks

Series Views

• How to: Change the View of a Series
• How to: Create a Gantt Chart with Task Links
• How to: Explode Points of a Pie Chart

Chart Elements

Chart Titles

• How to: Add Titles to a Chart
• How to: Enable Word Wrapping for Chart Titles

Panes

• How to: Create a Multi-Pane Chart
• How to: Display a Series in an Additional Pane (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Display Automatically Created Series in Separate Panes

Axes

• How to: Add a Title to an Axis
• How to: Determine whether an Axis Title is Being Hovered by the Mouse Pointer
• How to: Add Secondary Axes to a Chart
• How to: Customize an Axis Range
• How to: Create Custom Axis Labels
• How to: Individually Customize Axis Labels
• How to: Add a Constant Line to an Axis
• How to: Add a Strip to an Axis
• How to: Enable Automatic Scale Breaks for an Axis
• How to: Manually Insert a Scale Break into an Axis
• How to: Manually Insert a Scale Break into an Axis (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Show Numerical Data Using a Logarithmic Scale

Analytical Tools

• How to: Add a Trend Line to a Chart
• How to: Show a Regression Line for a Stock Chart
• How to: Show a Regression Line for a Stock Chart (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Implement the Best Fit Function, and Apply it to a Chart’s Series
• How to: Add a Fibonacci Indicator to a Chart
• How to: Add a Fibonacci Indicator to a Chart (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Plot the Fixed Value Error Bars Indicator on a Chart
• How to: Plot the Standard Error Bars Indicator on a Chart
• How to: Plot the Percentage Error Bars Indicator on a Chart
• How to: Plot the Standard Deviation Error Bars Indicator on a Chart
• How to: Plot the Data Source Based Error Bars Indicator on a Chart

Annotations

• How to: Create a Text Annotation Anchored to a Series Point
• How to: Create an Image Annotation Anchored to a Chart or Pane
• How to: Add an Annotation at Runtime

Legends

• How to: Create Custom Legend Radio Buttons to Control Visibility of a Chart Series
• How to: Add an Additional Legend to a Chart
• How to: Add a Legend Title
• How to: Add a Custom Legend Item

End-User Features

Animation

• How to: Implement a Custom Series Animation
• How to: Implement a Custom Bar Animation
• How to: Implement a Custom Marker Animation
• How to: Implement a Custom Pie Animation
• How to: Implement a Custom Funnel Animation

Hit Testing, Hot-Tracking and Selection

• How to: Determine which Chart Element the Mouse Pointer Hovers Over
• How to: Determine which Series Point Is Under the Test Point
• How to: Use Chart Hints and Tooltips
• How to: Show Custom Information in a Crosshair Cursor Tooltip
• How to: Show Series Labels Only for Hot-tracked Points
• How to: Implement Custom Hot-Tracking and Selection
• How to: Provide a Custom Cursor for a Chart
• How to: Provide Interactive Editing for Series Points
• How to: Provide Interactive Editing for a Constant Line
• How to: Create a Drill-Down Chart
• How to: Perform an Action When Series Points are Selected
• How to: Format Values in a Crosshair Cursor via a Label’s Patterns

Scrolling and Zooming

• How to: Make a Diagram Scrollable and Limit the Visual and Whole Range of Its Axis
• How to: Individually Adjust Axes Scrolling (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Individually Adjust Axes Zooming (Runtime Sample)
• How to: Customize the Secondary Axis Range When Chart Zooming is Performed

Chart Client of the Range Control

• How to: Customize Grid Lines, Grid Snapping of the Chart Range Control Client

Chart Designer

• How to: Invoke the Chart Designer at Runtime

Producing Output

Storing Chart Definitions

• How to: Save and Restore a Layout

Printing

• How to: Print a Chart and Show Its Print Preview
• How to: Use the PrintableComponentLink to Print DevExpress Controls

Exporting

• How to: Export a Chart to PDF
• How to: Export a Chart to HTML and MHT
• How to: Export a Chart to XLS
• How to: Export a Chart to Image

Localization

• Localizing WinForms Controls via Satellite Resource Assemblies
• Localizing WinForms Controls via Localizer Objects