I would like to create a chart that looks similar to the ColumnSeries example found at this link.

http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/WPF/2012.2/CLR4.0/html/xamDataChart_Category_Bar_Series.html

The problem is that I don’t think my data is in the correct structure, but before I change the data structure or try to create some kind of data adapter I wanted to ask the forum. I have a web service that returns data in a format similar to the table below. The idea is similar to an index, where the user is searching for something and the web service will return how many records (COUNT) were found in which table (DATASET). There is a DATASET column/property that contains values of table name where data was found.

...but I think the data needs to be in this format for the XamDataChart to work like the ColumnSeries.

I don’t think we can get the web service to return columns/properties that are the names of the tables. If the data has to be in this format to get the chart to display correctly then my only choice is to create some kind of adapter that alters the structure. I was thinking of using a System.Data.DataTable or an ObservableCollection of dynamic .NET objects using DynamicObject or ExpandoObject in the System.Dynamic namespace. I figure I need something like to this to create object properties on the fly.

So my question is can I display my data using the XamDataChart like its shown in the example or do I have to alter my data into a format that the XamDataChart can use?

Thanks,

   -eric