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Displaying Charts in the (UltraSpreadsheet) Control

Purpose

This topic explains how to display a chart in the Spreadsheet.

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Topic Purpose

In this section you will find information that will help you to better understand the object model and the functionalities of the Infragistics Excel Engine .

This topic explains in details the features of the UltraSpreadsheet control from developer perspective.

This topic provides an overview of the visual elements of the UltraSpreadsheet control.

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Introduction

Using ChartAdapter you can display the charts in the spreadsheet.The spreadsheet chart adapters creates and initializes chart elements for the spreadsheet based on a Infragistics.Documents.Excel.WorksheetChart instance.

In order to add a WorksheetChart to a worksheet, you must use the AddChart method of the worksheet’s Shapes collection.You can find more detail of adding charts in Excel

Here are the steps by step description :

  1. Add the SpreadsheetChartAdapter assembly reference to your project

  2. Create an instance of a SpreadsheetChartAdapter class

  3. Assign the chart adapter instance created in step 2 to the Spreadsheet’s Chart Adapter property

  4. Run your app and load a worksheet containing a chart

Adding Charts to the UltraSpreadsheet

There are over 35 chart types supported by the Spreadsheet ChartAdapters including, Line, Area, Column, and Doughnut. See the full list here:

  • Column Charts

    • Clustered column

    • Stacked column

    • 100% stacked column

  • Line Charts

    • Line

    • Line with Markers

    • Stacked line

    • Stacked line with markers

    • 100% stacked line

    • 100% stacked line with markers

  • Pie Charts

  • Doughnut Charts

  • Bar Charts

    • Clustered bar

    • Stacked bar

    • 100% stacked bar

    • Area Charts

    • Area

    • Stacked area

    • 100% stacked area

  • XY (Scatter) and Bubble Charts

    • Scatter (with Marker only)

    • Scatter with smooth lines

    • Scatter with smooth lines and markers

    • Scatter with straight lines

    • Scatter with straight lines and markers

    • Bubble (without effects)

  • Stock Charts

    • High-low-close

    • Open-high-low-close

    • Volume-high-low-close

    • Volume-open-high-low-close

  • Radar Charts

    • Radar without markers

    • Radar with markers

    • Filled Radar

  • Combo Charts

    • Column and line chart sharing xAxis

    • Column and line chart and 2nd xAxis

    • Staked Area and Column

    • Custom Combination

Preview

The following is a preview of the final result of a UltraSpreadsheet with a Line, Column, Area and Pie chart displayed, along with the data used for each using the code snippets below:

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Code Snippets

Following is the code that implements this example.

In C#:

Spreadsheet1 = new UltraSpreadsheet();
Spreadsheet1.ChartAdapter = new SpreadsheetChartAdapter();

//Get the cells for the four charts that will placed in the Worksheet.
WorksheetCell cell1 = sheet.GetCell("A1");
WorksheetCell cell2 = sheet.GetCell("B1");
WorksheetCell cell3 = sheet.GetCell("C1");
WorksheetCell cell4 = sheet.GetCell("D1");

////Create Line chart.
WorksheetChart chart1 = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.Line, cell1, new Point(0, 0), cell1, new Point(100, 100));
chart1.SetSourceData("A2:D4", true);

//Create Column chart.
WorksheetChart chart2 = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.ColumnClustered, cell2, new Point(0, 0), cell2, new Point(100, 100));
chart2.SetSourceData("A2:D4", true);

//Create Area chart.
WorksheetChart chart3 = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.Area, cell3, new Point(0, 0), cell3, new Point(100, 100));
chart3.SetSourceData("A2:D4", true);

//Create Pie chart.
WorksheetChart chart4 = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.Pie, cell4, new Point(0, 0), cell4, new Point(100, 100));
chart4.SetSourceData("A2:D4", false);

this.Spreadsheet1.Workbook = workbook;

In Visual Basic:

Dim spreadsheet As UltraSpreadsheet = New UltraSpreadsheet()
spreadsheet1.ChartAdapter = New SpreadsheetChartAdapter()

' Get the cells for the four charts that will placed in the Worksheet.
Dim cell1 As WorksheetCell = sheet.GetCell("A1")
Dim cell2 As WorksheetCell = sheet.GetCell("B1")
Dim cell3 As WorksheetCell = sheet.GetCell("C1")
Dim cell4 As WorksheetCell = sheet.GetCell("D1")

' Create Line chart.
Dim chart1 As WorksheetChart = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.Line, cell1, New Point(0, 0), cell1, New Point(100, 100))
chart1.SetSourceData("A2:D4", True)

' Create Column chart.
Dim chart2 As WorksheetChart = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.ColumnClustered, cell2, New Point(0, 0), cell2, New Point(100, 100))
chart2.SetSourceData("A2:D4", True)

' Create Area chart.
Dim chart3 As WorksheetChart = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.Area, cell3, New Point(0, 0), cell3, New Point(100, 100))
chart3.SetSourceData("A2:D4", True)

' Create Pie chart.
Dim chart4 As WorksheetChart = sheet.Shapes.AddChart(Infragistics.Documents.Excel.Charts.ChartType.Pie, cell4, New Point(0, 0), cell4, New Point(100, 100))
chart4.SetSourceData("A2:D4", False)

Me.Spreadsheet1.Workbook = workbook

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