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    Nevron Chart for .NET is the leading data visualization component for .NET. With it you will be able to display dynamic charts in minutes. In terms of flexibility, speed and presentation quality this component simply has no competition.

     Common Features for the WinForm and WebForm editions

    1. The only chart for .NET which can display distinct looking charts with presentation "out of the box" quality, without sacrificing speed.

    2. Ability to display the following charting types:

    • Bar - Clustered, Stacked, Stacked%, XYZ scatter stack and XYZ scatter cluster multi bar modes. Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles. Support for cluster stack combinations.
    • Line - line series can be displayed as simple lines, tape, tube or stretched ellipsoids. Overlapped, Stacked and Stacked% multi line modes are supported. XY Scatter mode.
    • Area - Stacked and Stacked% multi area modes are supported. XY Scatter mode. Supports markers.
    • Pie - Visualized as standard pies, torus segments or smooth edge pies. Several modes for the pie data labels, including non-overlapping labels that fit in the panel bounds.
    • Point - Points can be visualized as bar, cylinder , cone , inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported.
    • Bubble - Bubbles can be visualized as bar, cylinder , cone , inverted cone, pyramid, inverted pyramid, sphere, ellipse, cross, diagonal cross or star shape. XY and XYZ scatter modes are supported.
    • Stock - Stick and candle styles are supported. Open High Low and Close High Low chart subtypes are also supported. XY Scatter mode (date time stocks).
    • Floating Bar - Smooth edge and cut edge bar styles as well as the standard pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone styles.
    • Radar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers.
    • Polar - Contour and filled area styles. Supports markers. Radian and degree label formatting.
    • High Low - High low area with built-in appearance logic. Supports markers. XY scatter mode is also supported (date time range chart).
    • Grid Surface - A surface connecting data points with custom Y coordinates, ordered in a regular rectangular grid. The surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Custom color can be assigned to each data point. Several frame styles are supported: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be displayed with uniform color or synchronized with the palette. Support for flat surface (contour chart).
    • Mesh Surface - A surface connecting data points with custom X, Y, Z coordinates, ordered in a irregular grid. The surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Custom color can be assigned to each data point. Several frame styles are supported: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be displayed with uniform color or synchronized with the palette. Support for flat surface (contour chart).
    • Triangulated Surface - A surface connecting data points with custom X, Y, Z coordinates. Irregular triangular network is automatically created. The surface can be filled with an automatic or user defined palette. Smooth palette filling is supported. Custom color can be assigned to each data point. Several frame styles are supported: Mesh, Contour, Dots, Mesh - Contour. The frame can be displayed with uniform color or synchronized with the palette. Support for flat surface (contour chart).
    • Vertex Surface - A surface series connecting data points with user specified 3d primitive such as triangle, triangle fan, triangle strip, etc. The user can also specify the order in which vertices are connected to form the specified 3d primitive as well.
    • Shape - A versatile shape rendering series. The ultimate scatter plotter. Can display shapes with the following styles: Smooth edge, cut edge bar, pyramid, cylinder, ellipsoid, cone, inverted pyramid and inverted cone. The user controls the (X, Y, Z) position of the shape as well as its size along the X,Y and Z dimensions. Can also be used for complex composite object rendering.
    • Smooth Line (Spline) - 2D Smooth Line, 3D Smooth Line, XY Scatter Smooth Line, XYZ Scatter Smooth Line.
    • Smooth Area (Spline Area) - 2D Smooth Area, 3D Smooth Area, XY / Date-Time Smooth Area
    • Float bar (also called Gantt) - Date Time float bar, Date Time Clustered Float Bar.
    • Venn - 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. Venn set.
    • Step Line - 2D Step Line, 3D Step Line, DateTime Step Line
    • Error Bar - Y Error Bar, XY Error Bar, XYZ Error Bar
    • Funnel - Funnel charts are often used to represent stages in a sales process and show the amount of potential revenue for each stage. This type of chart can be useful also in identifying potential problem areas in an organization’s sales processes. A funnel chart is similar to a stacked percent bar chart.
    • Box and Whiskers - Box and whiskers plots are very helpful in interpreting the distribution of data. Each box and whiskers item represents a set of values and displays statistical information for it like minimum, maximum and median values, upper and lower quartiles, outliers and optionally a mean value.
    • Kagi - Kagi is a type of financial chart that illustrates the forces of supply and demand on a security. It is focused on price action and disregards the passage of time.
    • Renko - Renko is a type of financial chart that is very effective for traders to identify key support and resistance levels. It filters minor price movements and emphasizes on general trends.
    • Point and Figure - Point and Figure is a type of financial chart that is designed to filter non-significant price changes and to focus on the main price trends. Point and Figure charts are usually used for longer term price movements.
    • Three Line Break - Three Line Break is a price change financial chart that is similar in concept to Kagi, Renko and Point and Figure.
    • Line Studies - Line Studies are lines and various geometric figures that are plotted in price charts or in indicator charts. They are used as analytical instruments helping to define channels, support and resistance levels, trend changes and to forecast price dynamics. Line studies supported by Nevron Chart for .NET - Fibonacci Arcs, Fibonacci Fans, Fibonacci Retracements, Quadrant Lines, Speed Resistance Lines and Trendline.
    • Tree Map - Tree maps display hierarchical (tree-structured) data as a set of nested rectangles. Each branch of the tree is given a rectangle, which is then tiled with smaller rectangles representing sub-branches.
    • Heat Map - Heat map is a 2D representation of data where the individual values are contained in a matrix and are represented as colors, which are taken from an associated palette.
    • Triangulated Heat Map -Triangulated Heat map is a 2D representation of data where the individual values are arbitrary XYZ points. The interiord of the formed mesh is filled with the colors from a user specified palette.
    • Custom Series - Allows you to add custom painted graphics in a 2D chart (Cartesian, Polar or Radar).

    3. Integrated gauges.
    The component supports radial and linear gauges with lots of extensions like border, markers, needles and range indicators.

    4. Flexible integrated legend.
    Lots of predefined styles, positions and data layout strategies. Header and Footer.

    5. Built in functions and formula support.
    The component has extensive custom formula support with 50+ predefined functions including commonly used financial indicators like: Relative Strength Index, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Momentum, Stochastic Oscillator, Directional Movement System, Moving Averages, etc.

    6. Full Visual Studio design time support.
    State of art editors. Improved wizard. Creating a chart based on template and modifying its data and other settings takes not more than a few minutes.

    7. Editors available at runtime.
    All design time editors are available at runtime including the Wizard.

    8. Excel-like fill effect editors.
    You can not only specify any filling you can specify in Excel but you can also visually create any custom gradient with the built-in advanced gradient editor.

    9. Advanced control over the axis scaling and position.
    Static and dynamic axis positioning strategies and settings. Lots of predefined text layout schemes. 4 scaling modes - DateTime, Numeric, Logarithmic and Dimension scale. Paging with lots of customizations.

    10. Advanced axis labeling and decoration abilities.
    Stripes, constant lines as planes or simple lines, custom axis labels, axis cursors, range selections.

    11. Ability to display several different charting types simultaneously.
    Advanced chart margins and fit strategy control.

    12. Ability to display multiple series simultaneously.
    Making a chart type combination chart has never been easier and more flexible.

    13. Ability to display multiple charts and legends in the component canvas.
    Charts can be described on one or more legends. Legends can describe multiple charts.

    14. Image borders.
    Fancy skin effects which add this such important final touch to your chart image.

    15. Watermarks.
    Ideal for company logos and trademarks - can be displayed on top or behind the chart image with user controlled transparency.

    16. Labels.
    Headers, footers and custom positioned labels.

    17. Numeric display.
    Displays numeric information in LED fashion with several predefined styles. Allows for full control over the appearance and formatting of the displayed value.

    18. Interactivity.
    Trackball, zoom, offset, mouse cursor change, mouse tooltips and more.

    19. Drill down capabilities.
    Extensive drill down support. Lots of events for both WinForms and WebForms.

    20. Advanced 3D view control.
    360 degrees rotation, viewer rotation, orthogonal and perspective projections, offset, zoom as well as a lot of predefined projection schemes.

    21. Advanced control over the scene lighting.
    Lots of predefined lighting schemes. Multiple light sources. Spot and Directional light.

    22. Integrated Layout Manager
    Support for docking, nesting and anchoring of panels. AutoSize and custom size, bounds mode and more makes the creation of complex, scaleable layouts easy and comprehensible.

    23. Measurement Unit Support
    All styles and lengths are specified as a pair of value and measurement unit. More than 20 different measurement units (pixel, inch, millimeter, display etc.).

    24. Annotation support.
    Annotation support that also allows nesting of panels and anchoring panels to key elements of the chart like data points or legend data items. Arrow, Rectangular Callout, Rounded Rectangular callout, Cut edge rectangular callout and Oval callout.

    25. Advanced logic features and services.
    Master slave axes, master slave range selections and master slave cursors

    26. Modular design.
    Build on top of the Nevron Presentation Framework and Nevron DOM (Document Object Model) Framework. Custom binary and XML structured serialization.

    27. Vector image export for 2D charts.
    The control supports vector export of 2D charts to PDF, Flash, Silverlight and EMF. Nevron chart can export images with interactive features in SVG format.

    28. Data binding.
    Support for data binging to DataSet, DataTable, DataAdapter, DataView and custom data sources that implement the IBingingList interface and (optionally) the ITypedList interface.

    29. Automatic Data Label Layout.
    Data point labels can be automatically rearranged in order to avoid overlaps and ensure maximum visibility for the chart elements.

     Windows Forms specific features

    1. Built in UI components
    Grid and Toolbar components for WinForms. The grid is data aware and supports true date time editing as well as fill effect, line style and cursor type editing. The most frequently used commands are exposed by the Toolbar, which also supports custom buttons and runtime visual configuration.

    2. Ability to leverage the video board hardware acceleration
    This feature is very useful for real time applications because it frees your CPU from drawing the chart and transfers all the rendering to the CPU of the video board.

    3. Print Manager
    Advanced built-in printing and print - preview support.

     ThinWeb (Web Forms and MVC) specific features

    1. Client Side Tools

    • Data Zoom Tool - allows the user to zoom in / out by dragging a selection range over the chart.
    • Data Pan Tool - allows the user to move the current selection.
    • Trackball Tool - allows the user to change the current chart rotation and elevation by dragging the mouse.
    • Gauge Indicator Dragging Tool - allows the user to change gauge indicator values.
    • Tooltips, Cursor Change and Browser Redirection Tool - allows for tooltips, cursor change and browser redirection on the client.
    • Client Side Events Tool - allows you to intercept mouse events per chart element on the client.
    • Server Side Events Tool - allows you to intercept mouse events per chart element on the server.
    • Postback Tool - Allows you to refresh the contents of the page by performing a postback to the server.

    2. Custom Commands and Requests
    Allows you to integrate the control with the rest of the page using AJAX.

    3. CSS Customization
    Allows you to customize the appearance of different chart elements such as scrollbars, toolbar, range selection etc.

    4. Automatic Update
    Allows you to create a chart that is automatically updated on a specified time interval.

    5. Tiled Chart Rendering
    Allows chart images to be rendered in tiles (used for smooth Zooming, Scrolling and Panning).

    6. Toolbar
    Integrated client side toolbar.

     Web Forms specific features

    1. ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 support
    Nevron web controls allow AJAX callback handling of the following mouse events: click, double click, move, down and up. Also, the web controls can be forcibly refreshed at client-side and auto-refresh feature is available. For more details on AJAX in Nevron web controls refer the AJAX topic.

    2. Server side events (postback) and HTML image maps
    The image maps generated by the component can display tooltips, redirect the client browser to a specified URL or change the mouse cursor.

    3. Server side persistency
    The component can preserve its state across roundtrips.

    4. Ability to inject custom client side script
    With the help of this feature you can seamlessly integrate the image maps generated from the component with any type of client side VBScript or JScript.

    5. Ability to directly stream an image to the client browser
    This is an indispensable feature when building scalable and secure server side applications.

    6. Built-in temporary file clean up
    The component automatically detects when a temporary file is expired and deletes it from the server. You can also assign disk space usage quota for the directory holding the temporary files in order to ensure that you cannot exceed the space used by your web server application.

    7. Built-in browser detection
    By leveraging the power of the .NET regular expressions you can instruct the component to generate different responses depending on the browser accessing the page.