Chart FX: Tight integration into Visual Studio for effortless programmability and superb end-user experience.

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Samples and Resource Center

Whether you are just starting with Chart FX 7 or you are an experienced Chart FX developer, here you will find a wealth of documentation and samples that will help you benefit from Chart FX 7.

Powerful API

With Chart FX 7 it is easier to access complex functionality and quicker to integrate to your C# or VB.NET applications as objects and classes are more recognizable and easier to code.

DHTML/AJAX Rendering Engine

Chart FX 7 adds a new rendering engine that uses AJAX to produce chart images that automatically update without a complete page refresh, only updating the area of the chart that changed.

Default Chart Settings

Carefully selected cosmetics such as gradients and color palettes as well as other important chart elements such as toolbars, legends and output format will be customized automatically based on the chart size and platform selection.

Smart Tag Wizard

Chart FX 7 makes full use of Visual Studio Smart Tags and their infrastructure to build a fully functional Wizard that allows developers to quickly access Chart FX 7's main features.

Revolutionary Visuals and Smarts

Chart FX for .NET provides over 40 chart types, customizable legends, ready-to-use color palettes, multiple and customizable axes, per-marker attributes, gridlines, background images and border objects, among many other exciting features.

Superb Design Time Experience

Chart FX boosts developer productivity and aids programmability by providing a fully-graphical wizard within the development environment's design surface. This allows developers to take advantage of the visual programming paradigm Visual Studio 2003 provides.

Samples and Resource Center

The Chart FX for .NET Resource Center provides an immediate link to the Chart FX API Reference, Programmer's Guide and Samples as well as online Technical Articles, Knowledgebase and Community.

Pleasurable User Experience

Chart FX for Visual Studio 2008 continues its long tradition of enjoyable design-time experience by integrating seamlessly into its development environment and an array of graphical wizards ensure access to key parameters are only a few clicks away.

Expression Blend Integration

Expression Blend eases collaboration between designers and programmers. Chart FX for Visual Studio 2008 will integrate seamlessly within this exciting new tool and will allow for charts to be generated in pure XAML code.

Visual Studio Integration

Create charts with Chart FX as you would any web forms application using Visual Studio. The Chart FX Silverlight Add-On server component will allow you to export the XAML code needed by the Chart FX Silverlight Add-On client component.

Expression Blend 2 Integration

Expression Blend eases collaboration between designers and programmers. The Chart FX Silverlight Add-On client component can be imported into Blend and then edited or animated like any other object in a Silverlight application.

Chart FX 7

Chart FX 7 integrates seamlessly into Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005, providing developers with unprecedented data visualization capabilities. Chart FX 7 takes full advantage of the .NET Framework and cutting-edge technologies such as AJAX to create visually-rich, lightweight and secure charts that will enhance your enterprise application's display layer.

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Chart FX is also available for Java, ASP, Client Server & SQL Reporting applications.

Chart FX for .NET

We know many developers still use Visual Studio 2003 as their primary IDE. If you haven't yet upgraded to Visual Studio 2005/2008, we have a special Chart FX version for you. Chart FX for .NET combines maturity and an array of features such as a fully-graphical wizard within the development environment's design surface that will allow you to plug in functionality rather than wasting time writing it from scratch.

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Chart FX is also available for Java, ASP, Client Server & SQL Reporting applications.

Chart FX for WPF

Chart FX for WPF takes advantage of 2D vector shapes, 2D animation, images, 3D geometries, 3D animation and text to provide more than just cosmetic innovations. Chart FX for Visual Studio 2008 makes the experience more intuitive to the user and our WPF smarts, visuals and user interface innovations unleash new ways of exploring and analyzing enterprise data.

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Chart FX is also available for Java, ASP, Client Server & SQL Reporting applications.

Chart FX Silverlight^™ Add-On

The Chart FX Silverlight Add-On takes full advantage of Microsoft's cross-platform plug-in to deliver rich interactive experiences over the web. The Chart FX Silverlight Add-On is a free download for Chart FX 7 users and allows developers to add Chart FX functionality to their Silverlight-based web applications.

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Chart FX is also available for Java, ASP, Client Server & SQL Reporting applications.

Each year, Fortune 500 corporations and thousands of developers worldwide trust Chart FX as their enterprise data visualization solution. Here's why:

Superb Design Time Experience

Chart FX boosts developer productivity and aids programmability by providing fully-graphical wizards within the development environment's design surface. This allows developers to take advantage of the visual programming paradigm Visual Studio provides.

DHTML/AJAX Rendering Engine

Chart FX 7 adds a new DHTML rendering engine that uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to produce chart images that allow full interactivity and support state in web applications.

Synergistic Partner Products

Software FX also offers other products to help you with advanced data visualization needs.

• Grid FX provides developers with a truly unique and highly integrated data visualization platform to display graphical and tabular data in enterprise applications.
• Chart FX Gauges provides graphical representations of gauge types including radial, linear and digital panels for single-variable real-time analysis.
• In addition, the Chart FX Extensions Pack will handle specific data like multi-dimensional cubes, maps, statistical or stock market information.

Fully Object-Oriented API

Chart FX provides an extremely flexible and powerful API, with full support for Microsoft's Intellisense technology. Chart FX allows for customization of virtually any chart element or behavior via C# or VB.NET code.

Centralized Resource and Customer Assistance

Immediate help and assistance are important when adopting third-party .NET tools. The Chart FX Resource Center provides an immediate link to the Chart FX API Reference, Programmer's Guide and Samples as well as online Technical Articles, Knowledgebase and Community.

Fully-Automated Installation Process

Chart FX takes advantage of the Visual Studio automation model to properly setup your development environment. Immediately after installation you can drop a chart object on the Visual Studio's design surface or access the Chart FX documentation and help directly from the development environment.

Interactive Samples and Demos

Featured Chart FX Customers

Featured Partner Product

Grid FX features seamless Visual Studio 2005/2008 integration, ground-breaking design-time experience, powerful run-time features and Chart FX capabilities right out of the box.

Chart FX Resources

Chart FX Gallery

View a collection of charts created with Chart FX technology.

Chart FX 7 Sellsheet PDF

Download a brief overview of the new features available in Chart FX 7.

Chart FX 7 Quick Start Guide PDF

A guide to get you up and running in no time with Chart FX 7.