📈 WPF Chart Controls 📊

A WPF control library for responsive column, line, and pie charts.

🖥️ Demo

Kareem has a video demoing and explaining functionality or you can download and check out the charts in the Example project.

📊 2D Column Chart

Usage

1. Import the namespace

xmlns:wpfChartControls="clr-namespace:WPFChartControls;assembly=WPFChartControls"

2. Add chart

<wpfChartControls:_2DColumnChart />

3. Bind data to Items property
   • using code-behind

   <wpfChartControls:_2DColumnChart x:Name="ColumnChart" />

   ColumnChart.Items = TestColumnItems.Case4;

   • using attribute binding

   <wpfChartControls:_2DColumnChart Items="{Binding Items}" />

Properties

• Items - collection of ColumnItem items to be displayed in the chart
• ColumnBrush - brush used for the ColumnItem items
• Stroke - brush used to draw the axis and lines
• StrokeThickness - thickness of the axis and lines
• IntervalCount - number of intervals to be displayed on the Y-axis
• InnerPadding - inner padding of the chart area

Related Objects

• ColumnItem - an item in the column chart with a Header and Value
• TestColumnItems - provides test case collections of ColumnItem instances

🥧 2D Pie Chart

Usage

1. Import the namespace

xmlns:wpfChartControls="clr-namespace:WPFChartControls;assembly=WPFChartControls"

2. Add chart

<wpfChartControls:_2DPieChart />

3. Bind data to Items property
   • using code-behind

   <wpfChartControls:_2DPieChart x:Name="PieChart" />

   PieChart.Categories = TestPieCategories.Case6;

   • using attribute binding

   <wpfChartControls:_2DPieChart Categories="{Binding Categories}" />

Properties

• Categories - collection of PieCategory items to be displayed in the chart
• StrokeBrush - brush used to draw the strokes of the pie slices
• StrokeThickness - thickness of the strokes of the pie slices
• LegendPosition - position of the legend relative to the chart

Related Objects

• PieCategory - a category in a pie chart with a Percentage, Title, and ColorBrush
• LegendPosition - position of the legend (values: Top, Left, Right, Bottom)
• TestPieCategories - provides test case collections of PieCategory instances

📈 Line Chart

Usage

1. Import the namespace

xmlns:wpfChartControls="clr-namespace:WPFChartControls;assembly=WPFChartControls"

2. Add chart

<wpfChartControls:LineChart />

3. Bind data to Items property
   • using code-behind

   <wpfChartControls:LineChart x:Name="LineChart" />

   LineChart.Values = TestLineValues.Case3;

   • using attribute binding

   <wpfChartControls:LineChart Values="{Binding Values}" />

Properties

• Values - collection of LineValue items to be displayed in the chart
• AxisStrokeBrush - brush used to draw the axis strokes
• AxisStrokeThickness - thickness of the axis strokes
• GridLineStrokeBrush - brush used to draw the grid lines
• GridLineStrokeThickness - thickness of the grid lines
• GridLineOpacity - opacity of the grid lines
• InnerPadding - inner padding of the chart area
• ValueLineStrokeBrush - brush used to draw the value line
• ValueLineStrokeThickness - thickness of the value line
• XIntervalCount - number of intervals to be displayed on the X-axis
• YIntervalCount - number of intervals to be displayed on the Y-axis

Related Objects

• LineValue - a value in a line chart with X and Y coordinates
• TestLineValues - provides test case collections of LineValue instances

💪🏾 Credits

Thank you to Kareem Sulthan, who shared the code that became the foundation of WPF Chart Controls.

From there I did lots of refactoring, made each chart adjust sizing when the window height/width is changed, and added documentation comments to increase reusability.

📃 License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2024 Kareem Sulthan, Justin M Heartley