Essential Studio® Chart SDK
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Overview
The Essential Studio® Chart SDK provides a powerful collection of high-performance, feature-rich chart and data visualization controls. These controls enable developers to create stunning, interactive visualizations with exceptional performance and cross-platform capabilities. The SDK offers a comprehensive suite of chart types including Cartesian charts, circular charts, funnel charts, pyramid charts, polar charts, radar chart, stock charts, bullet charts, sunburst charts, smith chart, sparkline, range navigator, gauges, barcodes, tree maps, maps and olap tools. Each control is highly customizable with support for various styling options, animations, interactive features, and data binding capabilities, making it ideal for building professional-grade data visualizations for any industry.
Key Features
  • Rich Data Binding — Supports binding to any IEnumerable data source including ObservableCollection and dynamic data updates with live chart rendering.
  • Multiple Series Support — Render multiple series simultaneously within a single chart for layered comparisons.
  • Flexible Axis Types — Supports multiple axis types including Numeric, Category, DateTime, and Logarithmic, enabling accurate representation of diverse data scenarios.
  • Interactive Tooltip — Built-in customizable tooltip that appears on hover or tap, displaying relevant data point information.
  • Legend Support — Configurable legend with custom templates, positioning (top, bottom, left, right), and toggle visibility per series.
  • Data Labels — Display values directly on data points with configurable position, format, rotation, and connector lines.
  • Animations — Smooth load and update animations for series rendering with configurable duration and easing.
  • Custom Appearance — Full control over colors, gradients, palettes, stroke, and fill for every visual element.
  • Trackball / Crosshair — Interactive trackball and crosshair cursor for precise data point tracking across series.
  • Selection Support — Built-in support for selecting data points, segments, or series with customizable selection modes and visual highlighting for enhanced interactivity.
  • Export Support — Export chart as image (PNG/JPEG) for reporting and sharing.
  • Theming & Styling — Supports system themes (light/dark) and custom style overrides via resource dictionaries or style properties.
  • RTL (Right-to-Left) Support — Enables full right-to-left layout rendering for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, ensuring proper alignment of text, axes, legends, and UI elements.
  • Segment Explode — Allows individual segments to be visually separated (exploded) for emphasis (applicable to circular, funnel, pyramid).
  • Zooming & Panning — Interactive zoom and pan for exploring dense datasets with pinch, mouse wheel, and button-based controls.
  • Plot Area Customization — Configure plot area background, border, margin, and corner radius for consistent branding.
  • Localization — Localize chart UI elements (such as tooltip labels) into different languages and cultures by adding culture-specific `.resx` resource files with `EmbeddedResource` build action and setting `CurrentUICulture` in the application.
Platform-Specific Key Features
The chart component offers a rich set of common features across all platforms, as outlined above. In addition, each platform provides unique capabilities tailored to its environment.
Web Platforms
  • Annotations — Highlight specific data points or regions using text, shapes, or custom templates for better data interpretation.
  • Touch Support — Supports touch interactions such as tap, swipe, and pinch gestures for mobile and tablet devices.
  • Strip Lines — Highlight or emphasize specific ranges or thresholds on chart axes.
  • Technical Indicators — Built-in support for financial indicators to analyze stock and trend data.
  • Trendlines — Visualize data trends with various trendline types for better forecasting and analysis.
  • Markers — Display markers on data points with customizable shapes, sizes, and styles.
  • Multiple Panes — Organize and display multiple chart panes within a single view for complex data scenarios.
  • Error Bars — Represent data variability or uncertainty using configurable error bars.
  • Export Options — Export charts in multiple formats including SVG, PNG, JPEG, PDF, CSV, and Excel.
  • Events — Comprehensive event support for user interactions such as click, hover, zoom, and selection.
  • Accessibility — Built with accessibility standards including ARIA support for inclusive applications.
  • Keyboard Navigation — Enables full keyboard interaction for improved usability and accessibility.
  • Sankey Diagram — Visualize flow and relationships between entities using Sankey diagrams.
  • Chart Wizard (Blazor Only) — Interactive chart configuration wizard available exclusively in Blazor for quick setup and customization.
MAUI
  • Cross-Platform Native Rendering — Charts render natively on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared codebase.
  • Touch Gesture Support — Native touch interactions including pinch-to-zoom, swipe-to-pan, and tap selection optimized for mobile and tablet.
  • Trendlines — Visualize data trends in Cartesian charts using 6 trendline types (Linear, Exponential, Logarithmic, Power, Polynomial, Moving Average) with forward/backward forecasting, markers, tooltip, and trackball label support.
  • Annotations — Mark specific areas of interest in Cartesian charts using text, shape (rectangle, ellipse, line, horizontal/vertical line), and custom view annotations positioned by axis value or pixel coordinates; supports multi-axis targeting.
  • Liquid Glass Effect — Apply a modern glassy UI to Cartesian chart tooltips, trackball labels, and chart background via SfGlassEffectView with blurred/clear glass styles and rounded corners (supported on iOS and macOS 26+ with .NET 10).
WPF
  • Technical Indicators — Includes 10 built-in technical indicators (e.g., RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands) for financial and stock trend analysis.
  • Touch-Enabled Zooming — Interactive zooming with touch mode support to explore dense data regions with excellent performance.
  • Multiple Axes & Panes — Supports multiple axes that can be stacked and spanned across multiple chart panes.
  • High-Volume Rendering — Capable of rendering large amounts of data within milliseconds for real-time dashboards.
  • Striplines — Shade specific regions or ranges in the plot area at regular or custom intervals on any axis.
  • Watermark — Add text or image overlays to the chart area background for branding or copyright purposes.
WinForms
  • Statistical Formula Support — Built-in statistical formulas including Mean, Standard Deviation, Variance, T-test, F-test, Z-test, and Distributions.
  • Export to PDF, Excel & Doc — Export chart to PDF, Excel, and Word document formats; import functionality also supported.
  • Multiple Titles & Legends — Supports multiple chart titles and multiple legends with formatted title text.
  • Striplines — Shade specific regions or ranges in the plot area at regular or custom intervals on any axis.
  • Chart Breaks — Chart break support for series with large value differences for better visual clarity.
UWP
  • Technical Indicators — Supports 10 types of technical indicators for financial, stock, and economic trend analysis.
  • Striplines — Shade specific regions or ranges in the plot area at regular or custom intervals on any axis.
  • Watermark — Add text or image overlays to the chart area background for branding or copyright purposes.
Sample Browser
Online Sample Browser
Explore interactive demos showcasing the capabilities of Chart control:
Platform Sample Link
JavaScript View Demos
JavaScript ES5 View Demos
React View Demos
Angular View Demos
Vue View Demos
Blazor View Demos
ASP.NET Core View Demos
ASP.NET MVC View Demos
GitHub Sample Repositories
Access platform-specific sample projects on GitHub:
Platform Sample Repository
MAUI View Samples
WinForms View Samples
UWP View Samples
WPF View Samples
WinUi View Samples
Software Requirements
Ensure your development environment meets platform-specific requirements. For detailed and up-to-date information, refer to the official Syncfusion documentation for each platform:
Web Platforms
Desktop Platforms
Learning
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