When you want me to get a reference to the series found in the chart.CompositeChart.Series collection...would that be found in the image1.gif sent earlier? The reference would therefore be 'series1' and 'series2'? Also 'yourDataTable' would be sqlDataSource? Or would that be the actual table name. I am working in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 which has a data source to the view i am using. Thanks.

You can either get the series by index or by key. If your series collection has a series with key "series1" then use
ultraChart1.CompositeChart.Series.FromKey("series1") or ultraChart1.CompositeChart.Series[0]

The data table  would have to be a table in your sqlDataSource, not a table name.

Hope this helps.

Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

End Sub

Dim series As New Infragistics.UltraChart.Resources.Appearance.NumericSeries()

series.Label = "Series A"

' this code populates the series from an external data source

'Dim table As Data.DataTable = Me.GetData()

series.Data.LabelColumn = "Label Column"

series.Data.ValueColumn = "Value Column"

End Function

End Class

Currently, the chart series object can only be bound to a data table, so you will need to extract the table from the data source. Assuming you have columns 'column1'  as string and 'column2' as float or anything numeric in your datasource, this should work.

Dim series As New NumericSeries
UltraChart1.CompositeChart.Series.Add(series)
Dim dv As New DataView
dv = Me.SqlDataSource1.Select(Web.UI.DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty)
series.Data.DataSource = dv.Table
series.Data.LabelColumn = "column1"
series.Data.ValueColumn = "column2"
UltraChart1.CompositeChart.ChartLayers(0).Series.Add(series)

I am having a problem to databind to my Composite Graph - i have the following:

DAL with DataTable with  Column called Fiscal_Month, 2007, 2008, 2009

TableAdapter FillBy CustomerID and ProductID

Not sure how to bind them to the series

Thanks Max, you blokes have been such a great help gettiing my head around charting.

Thanks so much!

For Item Labels:
seriesColumn1.Label = "2007";
seriesColumn2.Label = "2008";
seriesColumn3.Label = "2009";
xAxisColumn.Labels.Orientation = TextOrientation.VerticalLeftFacing;

For Series Labels:
xAxisColumn.Labels.SeriesLabels.Layout.Behavior = AxisLabelLayoutBehaviors.UseCollection;
AxisLabelLayoutBehavior behavior = new WrapTextAxisLabelLayoutBehavior();
behavior.Enabled = true;
behavior.EnableRollback=false;
behavior.UseOnlyToPreventCollisions=false;
xAxisColumn.Labels.SeriesLabels.Layout.BehaviorCollection.Add(behavior);

That worked great!! Thanks so much !

1. The best way is to set
yAxis.TickmarkStyle = AxisTickStyle.Smart;

This setting automatically picks a round interval, along with start and end values.

2. This is something that requires a little bit of trial and error. You can set a margin on the x axis that you use for the line layer in order to make the line points appear in the center of the column points. A value of 3 or 4 percent seems to work well.

xAxisLine.Margin.Near.MarginType =

LocationType.Percentage;
xAxisLine.Margin.Near.Value = 3;
xAxisLine.Margin.Far.MarginType = LocationType.Percentage;
xAxisLine.Margin.Far.Value = 3;