Pocket Chart FX for .NET

Small Footprint

Pocket Chart FX for .NET provides a design-time experience assembly compiled against the .NET Framework that integrates seamlessly in Visual Studio .NET, allowing you to setup chart attributes and properties easily. This consistency ensures that there are no features in the design time version of the control that will not be available in the run-time version limited to work in the .NET Compact Framework and both assemblies adhere to the ¿small is good¿ principle for mobile applications.

Help & Sample Code

The Chart FX Resource Center not only provides specific samples for Pocket Chart FX for .NET but has been also provisioned with the .NET Compact Framework emulators so you can see each sample running in a virtual Pocket PC environment. To activate, simply select the Smart Devices radio button at the top of the Resource Center. The picture to the left depicts a live Pocket Chart FX for .NET sample in the Resource Center.

Additionally the Chart FX Resource Center features an API Section where all Chart FX methods and properties can be accessed. Please be aware that those objects, properties and methods supported in the .NET Compact Framework will be accompanied by the ¿Supported by the Pocket Chart FX for .NET¿.

100% Pocket PC Native

As a GDI+ intensive component, Chart FX has been developed with coding practices that can help improve draw speeds when using Graphics draw calls. This is particularly important when considering applications in a mobile platform where memory, CPU speed, and other resources are at a premium. Considering that a PocketPC screen resolution is 240x320, we made sure chart elements that usually take a lot screen space were removed from the default chart settings and that charts accommodate and display well in a ¿portrait¿ rather than a ¿landscape¿ orientation; even the Chart FX default color palette has been changed to improve end users ability to read charts in small Pocket PC screens.

Support for SQL Server CE and Pocket Access

SQL Server CE extends Microsoft SQL Server to Microsoft Windows CE-based mobile devices, while providing developers with a consistent programming model for rapid application development. Chart FX can read from native SqlCEConnections and SqlCEDataAdapters for easy chart population. The following C# code demonstrates how easy it is to populate a chart from SQL Server CE data source:

SqlCeConnection myConn = new SqlCeConnection(@'Data Source = Test.sdf');
myConn.Open();
SqlCeCommand myCommand = new SqlCeCommand(sSql, myConn);
SqlCeDataAdapter sqlCeAdapter = new SqlCeDataAdapter(myCommand);
DataSet dsChart = new DataSet();
sqlCeAdapter.Fill(dsChart);
Chart1.DataSource = dsChart.Tables[0];