Chart Borders
Adding a border to part of the chart can help highlight
important information, or simply make the chart look more attractive. The border
style, color, rounding, and width can be set using the respective properties: BorderStyle,
Color,
Rounding,
and Thickness.
Using these properties you can create customized borders for any of the
following chart elements:
•
Header and Footer titles
•
Legend
•
ChartArea
•
The entire chart
The following table defines and illustrates the effect of
each value in the BorderStyleEnum:
| | |
NotSet | Border style is not set and is inherited from
C1Chart class. | |
None | No border. | |
Empty | Empty border. | |
Solid | Solid line border. | 
|
Raised | Raised 3D border, drawn using system colors. | 
|
Inset | Inset 3D border with bevel. | 
|
RaisedBevel | Raised 3D border with bevel. | 
|
InsetBevel | Inset 3D border with bevel. | 
|
Groove | Compound border (inset+raised). | 
|
Fillet | Compound border (raised+inset). | 
|
Double | Double solid line border. | 
|
Dashed | Dashed line border. | 
|
Opaque | The opaque border style ensures that anti-aliasing
is turned off when drawing the border. Opaque borders ignore
Rounding settings. This border style can be useful for
generating chart images to be use with transparent backgrounds. | |
The border properties can be modified at design time using
the Chart Properties
designer, Properties window, or Chart Smart Designer. These properties are
located under the Style nodes in the Visual Studio Properties window,
which can be found on the Control, ChartArea, Titles, Legend, and ChartLabels
objects.
To change the border style of the ChartArea at design
time
To change the border style of the ChartArea element at
design time using the Visual Studio Properties window, complete the
following:
1. Expand the
ChartArea node in the c1Chart1 properties window.
2. Expand the
Style->Border property.
3. Click on the
dropdown arrow next to the BorderStyle property and select a border
style, for example Dashed.
To change the border style of the ChartArea
programatically
•
Visual Basic
C1Chart1.ChartArea.Style.Border.BorderStyle =
BorderStyleEnum.Dashed
•
C#
C1Chart1.ChartArea.Style.Border.BorderStyle =
BorderStyleEnum.Dashed;
The dashed border appears around the ChartArea element like
the following:
