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Column Chart X Axis label displays long date/time instead of formatted short time
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Hello. I'm using NET Advantage 10.2

I have a Column chart which takes 2 funds' performance data from SQL DB.

It works fine, but the X Axis label displays long date/time instead of formatted short time. I use this Markup in ASPX file: ItemFormatString="<ITEM_LABEL:MMM-yy>"

And also in .CS file:

        this.chPerformance.Axis.X.Labels.ItemFormat = Infragistics.UltraChart.Shared.Styles.AxisItemLabelFormat.Custom;
        this.chPerformance.Axis.X.Labels.ItemFormatString = "<ITEM_LABEL:MMM-yy>";
But the labels still come out as on the attached picture.
I'm binding data to the chart like this:
DataTable perftable = new DataTable();
        perftable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Date"typeof(System.DateTime)));
        perftable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Fund1"typeof(System.Double)));
        perftable.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Fund2"typeof(System.Double)));

        foreach (DateTime dt in dates)
        {
            double p1 = fund.TimeSeries[dt] == null ? 0 : fund.TimeSeries[dt].PercentChange;

            double p2 = otherfund.TimeSeries[dt] == null ? 0 : otherfund.TimeSeries[dt].PercentChange;

            perftable.Rows.Add(new object[] { dt, p1, p2 });

        }
        this.chPerformance.Data.DataSource = perftable;
        this.chPerformance.DataBind();
Please advise on how to format the X axis labels to display MMM-YY
Thanks a lot.

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  • 17605
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    The column chart doesn’t accept DateTime values as X-values. It accepts them like strings, for that you can’t format them. In your case you can change the type of the first column to be typeof(string) and add the rows with:

    perftable.Rows.Add(new object[] { dt.ToString("MMM-yy"), p1, p2 });

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