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VisiFire: Open Source Graph designer for WPF and Silverlight

I once was designing a program to draw charts in my WPF applications. I finally managed to build a Canvas in which I drawed all my coordinates to finally render a line graph. But to completely build that Canvas and made it auto-scale to my available space, it costed me days to build that. But those are over, thanks to Visifire.

Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft Silverlight and WPF. Visifire is a multi-targeting control which can be used in both WPF & Silverlight applications. Using the same API, charts in both Silverlight & WPF environments can be created within minutes.




Full Feature List:

• Visually Stunning Animated Charts
• Creates cool Silverlight™ & WPF Charts within minutes.
• Single API for both Silverlight™ & WPF
• Visifire is multi-targeting control.
• Knowing a single API will suffice to draw charts in both Silverlight™ & WPF.
• Embed into Desktop or Web Applications
• Visifire can be used in Desktop Applications(WPF) as well as in Web Applications(Silverlight™ or WPF Browser Apps).
• Compatible with Microsoft^® Expression^® Blend™
• All Visifire charts are editable in Blend™. Hence, users are free to design charts of their choice with adeptness of Blend™.
• Real time Charts / Live Update
• All properties of Visifire Charts can be updated in real time using Managed Code or Javascript.
• Dual License - Open Source & Commercial
• Open Source ensures that everyone has free access to the source code.
• Commercial License enables one to embed "Industrial Strength Community Tested Code" into commercial applications.
• Commercial Licenses are perpetual. Perpetual licensing model eliminates the need for periodic renewals.
• Independent of server side technology
• Visifire can be used with ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, Coldfusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML.
• Enterprise grade features for Commercial Licensees
• Ticket based priority support (24 hrs Maximum Turn Around Time Guaranteed)
• Custom Development
  
• Hotfixes / Emergency Patches
• Power Features
• Supports Interactivity
• Has Elegant Animations
• Scrollable Charts
• Supports Global Styles
• Supports Wide Range of Charts
• Column Charts
• Line Charts
• Area Charts
• Pie Charts
• Bar Charts
• Area Charts
• Doughnut Charts
• Stacked Charts
• Bubble Charts
• Scatter Charts
• Combination Charts

very simple ObservableCollection tutorial

an ObservableCollection is a dynamic collection where items can be added, removed or be updated with an automatic notification of actions.
I will demonstrate how this works in a very simple example:
All i have is a window with a Button a TextBox and a ListView and each time you click the Button the text of the Textfield is added to the collection and the ListView gets updated automatically.




Code file:

public partial class Window1 : Window
    {
        private ObservableCollection<String> names = new ObservableCollection<String>();

        public Window1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            listView1.ItemsSource = names;
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            names.Add(textBox1.Text);
        }
    }

All you need to do is set the ItemsSource of you ListView to the ObservableCollection with
listView1.ItemsSource = names;
and then add your text with the Add() Method of the ObservableCollection.
names.Add(textBox1.Text);

XAML File:

<Window x:Class="Observablecolection.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
    <Grid>
        <ListView Margin="138,6,10,8" Name="listView1"/>
        <Button Height="53" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="14,17,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="113" Click="button1_Click">Button</Button>
        <TextBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,118,0,110" Name="textBox1" Width="123" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

Welcome to my WPF blog

Welcome to this new blog about WPF.I know there are already a lot of blogs about WPF but I stumble upon specific problem now and then when I design WPF applications. and therefore I will try to post as many solution to my problems as I can. And hopefully help people that stumbled upon the same problem as I did.