to create space between the start of the x axis and the y axis, use the axis margin. For splitting up the text label, I would suggest using a custom label renderer. It's much more flexible than the layout behaviors. Here's an example:

 private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
 table = new DataTable();
 table.Columns.Add("Label", typeof(string));
 table.Columns.Add("Val1", typeof(double));
 table.Columns.Add("Val2", typeof(double));
 table.Columns.Add("Val3", typeof(double));

 table.Rows.Add(new object[] { "2010 more text", 10, 15, 15 });
 table.Rows.Add(new object[] { "2011 more text", 10, 10, 10 });
 table.Rows.Add(new object[] { "2012 more text", 30, 20, 30 });

 ultraChart1.ChartType = ChartType.StackColumnChart;
 ultraChart1.ColumnChart.ColumnSpacing = 1;

 ultraChart1.Axis.X.Margin.Near.Value = 15;
 ultraChart1.Axis.X.Margin.Near.MarginType = LocationType.Pixels;

 Hashtable labelHash = new Hashtable();
 labelHash.Add("CUSTOM", new MyLabelRenderer());
 ultraChart1.LabelHash = labelHash;
 ultraChart1.Axis.X.Labels.SeriesLabels.FormatString = "<CUSTOM>";

 ultraChart1.Data.DataSource = table;
 ultraChart1.Data.DataBind();
}

public class MyLabelRenderer : IRenderLabel
{
    public string ToString(Hashtable context)
    {
        string label = (string)context["SERIES_LABEL"];
        label = label.Replace(' ', '\n');
        return label;
    }
}

ultraChart1.Axis.X.Labels.SeriesLabels.Orientation = TextOrientation.VerticalLeftFacing;

Note, that you won't be able to preserve the central alignment, unless you resort to formatting tricks, such as inserting spaces and tabs in the label string before creating a line break.

Hi Max,

Thanks for the code. It has proven to be quite helpful. I have used the same code above to show a stacked column chart for each month of the year and data corresponding to them.

 However I am not able to edit the Y Axis. How do I do this? Also can you please share the code to create a legend for this kind of composite chart. Example of my code is below:

 String myconnstring;

SqlConnection myConn = new SqlConnection(myconnstring);

myConn.Open();

DataTable table = new DataTable();

DataTable dt = new DataTable();

DataSet ds = new DataSet();

dtime = System.

DateTime.Now;

String datet = dtime.ToString("MMMM");

SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("exec dialerrep.findMonths", myConn);

da.Fill(table);

da.Fill(ds);

int mycols = table.Columns.Count;

dt.Columns.Add(

"Label", typeof(string));

for (int i = 1; i < mycols; i++)

{

"Val" + i, typeof(int));

}

int  j = 0;

foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables[0].Rows)

{

new object[] {dr[j]});

}

}

ultraChart1.ChartType =

new Rectangle(10, 10, 80, 80);

area.BoundsMeasureType =

MeasureType.Percentage;

LocationType.DataValues;

"CUSTOM", new MyLabelRenderer());

ultraChart1.LabelHash = labelHash;

"<CUSTOM>";

ultraChart1.Axis.X.Labels.SeriesLabels.Orientation =

TextOrientation.VerticalLeftFacing;

ultraChart1.Axis.Y.Labels.SeriesLabels.FormatString =

"<DATA_VALUE:##>";

ultraChart1.Axis.Y2.Labels.SeriesLabels.FormatString = "<DATA_VALUE:##>";

ultraChart1.Data.DataSource = table;

ultraChart1.Data.DataBind();

Great! that worked! thanks!

Make sure chart.Axis.Y.Labels.HorizontalAlign is set to Far

Great! Thanks that worked. The chart comes up beautifully now except for the Y Axis... the data points still seem to be merged with the X Axis itself... is there a way to move the data points a little to the left so that they dont intersect with the axis?

I think you're seeing the extra axis labels and the extra axes, because you have made them visible either somewhere else in code, or in the designer. I suggest resetting axis properties, or setting Y2 and X2 axes to not visible.

Here's a simple code example that generates a stacked column chart with a legend:

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add("Value1", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("Value2", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("Value3", typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add("Label", typeof(string));

dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1, 1, 1, "Jan" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 2, 1, 2, "Feb" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 4, 4, 2, "Mar" });
dt.Rows.Add(new object[] { 1, 3, 1, "Apr" });

ultraChart1.ChartType = ChartType.StackColumnChart;
ultraChart1.ColumnChart.ColumnSpacing = 1;

ultraChart1.Axis.X.Labels.SeriesLabels.Orientation = TextOrientation.VerticalLeftFacing;
ultraChart1.Axis.Y.Labels.ItemFormatString = "<DATA_VALUE:0>";

ultraChart1.Legend.Visible = true;

ultraChart1.Data.DataSource = dt;
ultraChart1.Data.DataBind();

Hi Max,

Please check out the attached chart. Currently the Y Axis shows decimal places which I need to remove and comes on both sides of the graph whereas I want it only on the left.

Also there seems to be several words that are coming on top of the graph by default (right above the 698). I am unsure as to why this is happening.

And I am not able to see the default legend in my chart too. I have attached the code I am using in my previous post.

Please advise. Thanks again!

Sharad