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XtraCharts - Online Tutorials

The following is a list of online video tutorials designed to help you familiarize yourself with the XtraCharts. Additional training content and information can be obtained from our Knowledge Base and the DevExpress Channel.

DevExpress Channel Videos - XtraCharts
ASP.NET Charts and Pivot Grid Integration (08 min 10 sec)
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ASP.NET Charts and Pivot Grid Integration (08 min 10 sec)
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This video shows you how to bind a web chart control from the XtraCharts to a pivot grid. Also used are the Ajax UpdatePanel and UpdateProgress control to enable dynamic updates. Sample Source and Project: http://tv.devexpress.com/Content/ASPxPivotGrid/PivotChartDemo/PivotGridChartDemo.zip
Windows and Web Chart Basics: The Series (08 min 07 sec)
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Windows and Web Chart Basics: The Series (08 min 07 sec)
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Juilan is back and this time he talks about series and series templates in XtraCharts. For a change he creates a chart for ASP.NET.
WinForms Charting Basics: Taking Stock (03 min 56 sec)
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WinForms Charting Basics: Taking Stock (03 min 56 sec)
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Julian is back and ready to take on Wall Street with his stock charts. Learn how to create stock charts with XtraCharts for WinForms.
WinForms Charting Basics: The Beginning (10 min 16 sec)
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WinForms Charting Basics: The Beginning (10 min 16 sec)
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Julian sits down to discuss the basic operations for XtraCharts available for both WinForms and ASP.NET
WinForms Charting Basics: The Gantt Rant (05 min 47 sec)
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WinForms Charting Basics: The Gantt Rant (05 min 47 sec)
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In this video Julian demonstrates how to use a Gantt chart for displaying events in a timeline
WinForms Charting Basics: The Radar Plot (04 min 04 sec)
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WinForms Charting Basics: The Radar Plot (04 min 04 sec)
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In this video, Julian demonstrates the basic operations for creating a circular radar chart. These radar charts are best used when displaying information with many different axes.
WinForms Charts - Change Chart Types Dynamically at Runtime (04 min 32 sec)
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WinForms Charts - Change Chart Types Dynamically at Runtime (04 min 32 sec)
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While the XtraCharts component gives you numerous design-time features to customize a chart, there may be undoubtedly cases where you may need to allow the user to change the chart view at runtime. You can simply invoke the same Chart Wizard that you use at design time, or to make things simpler, you can add your own buttons to limit the types of charts that the end-user can select from. In this video, we’ll start with a 2D bar chart and add two buttons to the form to change the chart view to 3D Bars and 3D Line.
WinForms Charts - How to Change the Page Order in a Wizard (03 min 38 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Change the Page Order in a Wizard (03 min 38 sec)
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In this video, you'll learn how to identify the chart element that is clicked and display the series points data in a tooltip.
WinForms Charts - How to Conditonally Hide Series Labels (02 min 23 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Conditonally Hide Series Labels (02 min 23 sec)
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You can display and hide the series point labels at design-time simply by using the Chart Wizard and setting the corresponding property. But let’s say you want to conditionally hide some series labels at runtime. In this video, you’ll learn how to handle the XtraChart’s CustomDrawSeriesPoint event to hide series labels conditionally.
WinForms Charts - How to Custom Paint Series (02 min 28 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Custom Paint Series (02 min 28 sec)
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The XtraCharts provides you with the flexibility of changing the color of the chart series at runtime with only a few lines of code. In this video, you will learn how to handle the CustomDrawSeries event of the XtraCharts control to implement custom painting for the chart's series.
WinForms Charts - How to Custom Paint Series Points (04 min 21 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Custom Paint Series Points (04 min 21 sec)
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The XtraCharts provides you with the flexibility of changing the color of the chart series at runtime with only a few lines of code. In this video, you will learn how to handle the CustomDrawSeriesPoints event of the XtraCharts control to implement custom painting for the chart's series.
WinForms Charts - How to Determine Chart Element and Series Point Under Mouse Cursor (04 min 08 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Determine Chart Element and Series Point Under Mouse Cursor (04 min 08 sec)
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In this video, you’ll learn how to identify the chart element located under the mouse cursor and also display the series point’s data in a tooltip.
WinForms Charts - How to Determine Which Series Point is Clicked (02 min 58 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Determine Which Series Point is Clicked (02 min 58 sec)
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In this video, you’ll learn how to identify the chart element that is clicked and display the series point’s data in a tooltip.
WinForms Charts - How to Export To PDF (03 min 14 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Export To PDF (03 min 14 sec)
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The XtraCharts Control for WinForms provides you with built-in methods to easily export the chart’s content to a PDF, HTML or MHT, Excel Spreadsheet and a standard image. In this video, you will learn how to create a new series using code and how to export the whole chart to a PDF file.
WinForms Charts - How to Hide Certain Tabs on a Wizard's Page (02 min 57 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Hide Certain Tabs on a Wizard's Page (02 min 57 sec)
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While the built-in XtraCharts Wizard provides the user with numerous customization options at runtime, there may of course be cases where you do not want the end-user to modify critical settings such as the data source. In this video, you will learn how to display the XtraCharts Wizard while hiding some of the data-related tabs.
WinForms Charts - How to Invoke the Chart Wizard at Runtime (03 min 49 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Invoke the Chart Wizard at Runtime (03 min 49 sec)
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The XtraCharts control for WinForms enables you to offer your end-users the same powerful design-time customization options that you have come to enjoy and expect from our products. In this video, you will learn how to invoke the Chart Wizard to customize and create a new data bound chart at runtime.
WinForms Charts - How to Print a Chart and Show Its Print Preview (04 min 00 sec)
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WinForms Charts - How to Print a Chart and Show Its Print Preview (04 min 00 sec)
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Our charting component provides built-in functionality to utilize the DevExpress XtraPrinting Library to generate previews and print charts exactly the same way as you see them on the screen. You don’t even need to know how to handle and configure printing! XtraCharts takes care of everything for you via a single method. In this video, you will learn how to display a print preview of a sample chart as well as how to provide the functionality to print the chart.
XtraCharts - Creating a Web Chart at Run-time (07 min 19 sec)
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XtraCharts - Creating a Web Chart at Run-time (07 min 19 sec)
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Normally you create charts at design-time, dropping a ChartControl onto the form and perhaps using the Chart Wizard. This video shows how to write the code that creates a chart for ASP.NET at run-time instead.
XtraCharts - Creating a WinForms Chart at Run-time (08 min 51 sec)
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XtraCharts - Creating a WinForms Chart at Run-time (08 min 51 sec)
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Normally you create charts at design-time, dropping a ChartControl onto the form and perhaps using the Chart Wizard. This video shows how to write the code that creates a WinForms chart at run-time instead.
XtraCharts - Lesson #1 (04 min 46 sec)
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XtraCharts - Lesson #1 (04 min 46 sec)
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The first lesson demonstrates how to create a simple chart. You will get acquainted with its visual elements, and add a series of points to it. This tutorial is very helpful as a general visual introduction to our charting component.
XtraCharts - Lesson #2 (03 min 44 sec)
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XtraCharts - Lesson #2 (03 min 44 sec)
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This lesson shows you how to bind a ChartControl to data. We will use an MS Access sample database as the datasource. The data display customization will be done through series templates.
XtraCharts - Lesson #3 (05 min 21 sec)
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XtraCharts - Lesson #3 (05 min 21 sec)
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The purpose of this lesson is to show you how to bind a ChartControl to data, so that each data series is bound individually to a particular datasource.
XtraCharts - Lesson #4 (04 min 47 sec)
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XtraCharts - Lesson #4 (04 min 47 sec)
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In this lesson we will create a simple Web application that uses a WebChartControl. The chart will be bound to a MS Access sample database, with chart data filters used to select series data.
XtraCharts - Lesson #5 (05 min 23 sec)
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XtraCharts - Lesson #5 (05 min 23 sec)
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This lesson is intended to explain the purpose of secondary axes in XtraCharts. It shows you how to create secondary axes, and also several tips on how to improve a chart's visual appearance.
XtraCharts - Visual Elements (07 min 16 sec)
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XtraCharts - Visual Elements (07 min 16 sec)
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This video introduces the various visual elements of a chart, whether the chart is for WinForms or the web.
XtraCharts: New features in v2008 vol 2 (08 min 29 sec)
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Julian sits down to show us three new features for v2008 vol.2. They are label layout, trendlines and financial charts, and multiple panes.