Comparing WinForms Charts

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Explore all of the features offered by FlexChart and MS Chart. You can download the matrix in PDF.

Chart Types

Data Binding

Chart Features

Data Manipulations

Core Features

Look & Feel

Chart Area

Plot Area

Data Labels

Axes

Series

Legends

Marker Symbols

User Interactions

Tooltips

Financial Chart Features

Pie Charts

Exporting, Importing & Printing

Footprint

Pricing

Data Binding	FlexChart	MS Chart
Annotations	✓	✓
Axis binding	✓	✓
Customizable data labels	✓	✓
Customizable headers and footers	✓	✓

Core Features	FlexChart	MS Chart
Handle Empty/ Null Data Points	✓	✓
HitTest	✓	✓
DirectX Rendering, GDI+, SVG Rendering	✓
Trendlines	✓
Coordinate Conversion Methods	✓	✓
Serialization Support	✓	✓
Annotations	✓	✓
Financial Analysis using predefined Indicators and Overlays	✓	✓
DataPoint Filtering		✓
DataPoint Sorting		✓
Grouping		✓
DataPoints Searching		✓
Copy/ Merge/ Split Series Data		✓
Export to Dataset		✓
Statistical Analysis using predefined formulas		✓
LineMarkers	✓	✓
Multiple axes	✓
Multiple plot areas	✓

Look & Feel	FlexChart	MS Chart
Predefined Palettes	16	12
Custom Palette	✓	✓
Background Color	✓	✓
Background Image	✓	✓
Background Gradient/ HatchStyles		✓
Border and Border Styles		✓
Themes	16 themes	12 themes

Plot Area	FlexChart	MS Chart
Plot position configuration		✓
Plot margins	✓
Markers for PlotElements	Supported on FlexChart with LineSymbols/ SplineSymbols and Scatter chart types	✓
Markers Size	✓	✓
Markers as Images		✓
Markers: Border and Border styling		✓
Background Image/ Gradient/ HatchStyle for PlotElements		✓
Border and Border styling for Plot Elements		✓
Empty Points Styling		✓

Data Labels	FlexChart	MS Chart
Offset	✓
ConnectingLines	✓	✓
Borders and Border styling	✓	✓
Styling	✓	✓
Format String	✓	✓
Custom Content	✓
Positions for Cartesian charts	Bottom/ Center/ Left/ None/ Right/ Top	Only applies to bar charts. Outside/ Left/ Right/ Center
Positions for Pie charts	Center/ Inside/ Outside/ None	Inside/ Outside/ None

Axes	FlexChart	MS Chart
Axes: Primary X/Y	✓	✓
Axes: Secondary X/Y	✓	✓
Axes: Multiple Secondary X/Y	✓
Axis Label: Format strings	✓
Axis Label: Hide	✓	✓
Axis Label: styling	✓	✓
Axis Range (Min/Max) values	✓
Axis: Hide	✓	✓
Axis: Logarithmic	✓	✓
Axis: Reverse	✓	✓
AxisLine Styling	✓	✓
Labels: Alignment	✓
Labels: Angle	✓	✓
Labels: Hide overlapping	✓
Major/ Minor GridLines	✓	✓
Major/ Minor TickMarks	✓	✓
Major/ Minor Units	✓	✓
TickMarks Length	✓
TickMarks Styling	✓	✓
Title and Title Styling	✓	✓
Configure Origin	Any value	Auto/ Min/ Max
TickMarks Position	Cross/ Inside/ Outside/ None	Cross/ Inside/ Outside/ None
Position	Top/ Bottom/ Left/ Right/ Auto/ None
ArrowHead styling		✓
Axis Label: Custom		✓
Axis Label: Staggered		✓
ScaleBreaks		✓

Series	FlexChart	MS Chart
Multiple Series	✓	✓
Data binding	✓	✓
Chart types at series level	✓	✓
Styling	✓	✓
Visibility	Plot/ Legend/ Both Plot and Legend/ Hidden	Plot/ Plot and Legend/ Hidden
Conditional Formatting	✓
Stacked charts	✓

Legends	FlexChart	MS Chart
Title	✓	✓
Title Style	✓	✓
TextWrap	✓
Toggle Series Visibility from legend	✓
Orientation	Auto/ Vertical/ Horizontal	Vertical/ Horizontal/ Table
Position	Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom	Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom
Custom Legend Items		✓
Items Ordering		✓
Multiple Legends		✓

Tooltips	FlexChart	MS Chart
Auto tooltips	✓
Custom content	✓	String type only
Show Delay	✓
Styling	✓
String type only		✓
Tooltips for different chart elements		✓

Financial Chart Features	FinancialChart	MS Chart
Bollinger bands overlays	*
Envelope overlay	*
Fibonacci tools	*
Indicators	*
MACD Indicator	*
Moving averages	*
Overlays	*
Stochastic Oscillator Indicator	*
Fibonacci tools	*

Footprint	FlexChart	MS Chart
Assembly Size	330KB	904KB

Pie Charts	FlexChart	MS Chart
Exploded slices	✓	✓
Inner Radius	✓	✓
Starting Angle of first slice	✓	✓

Exporting, Importing & Printing	FlexChart	MS Chart
Export to JPEG/ JPG	✓	✓
Export to PNG	✓	✓
Export to SVG	✓
Export to BMP		✓
Export to EMF		✓
Export to EMfDual		✓
Export to EMfPlus		✓
Export to GIF		✓
Export to TIFF		✓
Save/ Load to Binary files		✓
Save/ Load to memory streams		✓
Save/ Load to XML		✓
Printing	✓	✓
Print Support	✓	✓