Comparing MVC Charts

Explore all of the features offered by FlexChart in ASP.NET MVC. You can download the comparison matrix in the PDF format.

Chart Types

* Available in FinancialChart

Data Binding

Core Features

Core Features	FlexChart	MS Chart
Handle Empty/ Null Data Points	✓	✓
HitTest	✓	✓
DirectX Rendering	✓
Trendlines	✓
Coordinate Conversion Methods	✓	✓
Serialization Support		✓
DataPoint Filtering		✓
DataPoint Sorting		✓
Grouping		✓
DataPoints Searching		✓
Copy/ Merge/ Split Series Data		✓
Export to Dataset		✓
Statistical Analysis using predefined formulas		✓

Look & Feel

Look & Feel	FlexChart	MS Chart
Themes	23	12
Custom Palette	✓	✓
Background Color	✓	✓
Background Image	✓	✓
Background Gradient/ HatchStyles		✓
Border and Border Styles		✓

Chart Area

Plot Area

Plot Area	FlexChart	MS Chart
Plot position configuration		✓
Plot margins	✓
Zones	✓
Conditional Item Formatting	✓
LineMarkers/CrossHair	✓
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

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

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

Legends

Legends	FlexChart	MS Chart
Title		✓
Title Style		✓
Toggle Series Visibility from legend	✓
Orientation	Auto/ Vertical/ Horizontal	Vertical/ Horizontal/ Table
Position	Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom/Auto/None	Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom
Custom Legend Items		✓
Items Ordering		✓
Multiple Legends		✓

Marker Symbols

User Interactions

Tooltips

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

Pie Charts

Pie Charts	FlexChart	MS Chart
Exploded slices	✓	✓
Inner Radius	✓	✓
Starting Angle of first slice	✓	✓
Selected Item Position	✓
Selected Item Offset	✓

Exporting & Importing