Nevron Chart for .NET version 4.0 - Officially Released

Nevron Chart for .NET is the World's leading .NET charting component. It is powerful, flexible, extensible and user-friendly. It aims to provide your applications with data visualization capabilities, which will significantly improve the looks and penetration of your product. Nevron Chart for .NET is a unique component, since it combines the power of raster and vector graphics and employs state of art 2D and 3D rendering technologies.
Nevron Chart has been significantly redesigned in order to be more flexible, powerful and extensible. Following is a list of the new features introduced in version 4.0

Support for different Measurement Units
All sizes (chart, font, label, frame etc.) can scale in more than 20 different measurement units (pixel, inch, millimeter, display etc.). This unique features allows you build scalable charting images with ease.

Layout Manager
Layout for all chart elements similar to the WinForms layouts. Each chart element is represented as a panel having child panels. The layout supports the following features:
- Docking style (Left, Top, Right, Bottom and Fill).
- Docking margins specified in measurement units.
- Anchoring - this feature allows you to attach a panel (label, annotation etc.) to another panel. Several anchor types are available including Data Point, Legend Data Item, Panel and Axis anchor.
- Nesting - each panel can contain child panels. For example you can have an annotation containing a chart.

New charting types:
- Bar - XY / XYZ scatter bar, XY / XYZ scatter stack, XY / XYZ scatter cluster.
- Smooth Line (Spline) - 2D / 3D Smooth Line, XY Scatter Smooth Line, XYZ Scatter Smooth Line.
- Bubble - XYZ Scatter Bubble.
- Float bar (also called Gantt) - Date Time float bar, Date Time Clustered Float Bar, XY / XYZ scatter float bar.
- Venn - 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. set Venn diagram.

Improved Chart Rendering
The rendering of the component has been optimized.
- Added support for drawing in correct back to front order allowing for better appearance of transparent chart elements.
- Optimized painting. Each panel can cache the rendered content - this is useful for real time applications demanding high performance.

Improved Data Points Model
You can now work with chart data points as objects or as a collection of tables.

Improved Interactivity Features
The interactivity features of the control have been redesigned. Added selection and controller abstractions.
- Axis scrolling with controllable scrollbar appearance and lots of events.
- Data point dragging with snapping to axis ticks, timers and lots of events.
- Hierarchical selection (drill down).
- Each tool supports the Cancel button as well as shortcut keys.

Improved Styles Support
All appearance related features are grouped into styles. Data points in the chart can have their own style or inherit the style of series they belong to.
- Each style has it's own visual editor which can be used in client applications.
- Each appearance style has preview support.

Improved Data Binding and Integrated Database Wizard.

Improved Legend
The legend is now based on a custom range based grid developed specially for Nevron Chart.
- The series can output data to the legend. The user can now control the order and whether to append or prepend data to the existing one.
- Legends support horizontal and vertical interlace styles.

Annotation Support
- Arrow, Rectangular Callout, Rounded Rectangular callout, Cut edge rectangular callout, Oval callout.
- Annotations can be attached to any chart element.

Optimized painting.
Each panel can cache the rendered content - this is useful for real time applications demanding high performance.

Custom Painting
Each panel has BeforePaint and AfterPaint event which you can intercept and paint in the panel canvas. You can use either the standard GDI+ Graphics object or Nevron Graphics object allowing for painting with fill styles, image filters, shadows etc.

Serialization Improvements
- XML, SOAP and Binary support.
- Custom XML and Binary support.
- Support for serialization filters.

Visual Interface Improvements
- All visual interface is based on Nevron UI Controls allowing for themes and skinning support.
- The chart toolbar is now implemented as a command bar.
- Improved style editors (fill, stroke). Each style editor has preview.
- Improved Chart Data Grid.

Master / Slave Axes
The Master / Slave axis feature allowing you to synchronize axes in different charts.

Range Selections
Fast overlay paintable objects suitable for selection purposes.

Master / Slave Range Selections
The Master / Slave range selections feature allows you to synchronize range selections in different charts.

Axis Cursors
Fast overlay paintable objects suitable for marking or tracking axis values dynamically.

Master/Slave Axis Cursors
The Master / Slave axis cursors features allows you to synchronize axis cursors in different charts.

Redesigned and Improved Printing
The improved printing allowing for custom printing, multi page printing and the creation printer friendly charts.

Chart Attribute Converter
Chart attribute converter is allowing you to change the appearance styles of the chart with ease. One example where this can come handy is when creating printer friendly charts (where each color should be replaced by a BW hatch style).

Chart attribute converter is allowing you to change the appearance styles of the chart with ease. One example where this can come handy is when creating printer friendly charts (where each color should be replaced by a BW hatch style).

Full Coordinate Transformation Support

Chart Services
Chart services are allowing you to turn on and off certain features (like master / slave axes or automatic legends data feed).

Tag property for each chart element.

Improved Examples Improved examples - added search and navigation, faster source code browsing.

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