# Comparing MVC Charts ## Content Explore all of the features offered by FlexChart in ASP.NET MVC. You can download the comparison matrix in the [PDF format](http://prerelease.componentone.com/help/MVC/FeatureComparisonMatrix_MVCFlexChart.pdf). DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Chart Types DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Chart Types** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Area | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedArea | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedArea100 | ✓ | ✓ | | SplineArea | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedSplineArea | ✓ | | | StackedSplineArea100 | ✓ | | | Bar | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedBar | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedBar100 | ✓ | ✓ | | Bubble | ✓ | ✓ | | CandleStick | ✓ | ✓ | | Column | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedColumn | ✓ | ✓ | | StackedColumn100 | ✓ | ✓ | | Stock/ HighLowOpenClose | ✓ | ✓ | | Sunburst | ✓ | ✓ | | Line | ✓ | ✓ | | LineStacked | ✓ | | | LineStacked100 | ✓ | | | Spline | ✓ | ✓ | | SplineStacked | ✓ | | | SplineStacked100 | ✓ | | | LineSymbols | ✓ | | | StackedLineSymbols | ✓ | | | StackedLineSymbols100 | ✓ | | | SplineSymbols | ✓ | | | SplineSymbolsStacked | ✓ | | | StackedSplineSymbols100 | ✓ | | | Pie | ✓ | ✓ | | Doughnut | ✓ | ✓ | | PieExploded | ✓ | ✓ | | DoughnutExploded | ✓ | ✓ | | Point/ Scatter | ✓ | ✓ | | 2D | ✓ | ✓ | | Heikin-Ashi | \* | | | LineBreak/ThreeLineBreak | \* | ✓ | | Renko | \* | ✓ | | Kagi | \* | ✓ | | ColumnVolume | \* | | | EquiVolume | \* | | | CandleVolume | \* | | | ArmsCandleVolume | \* | | | FastLine | | ✓ | | FastPoint | | ✓ | | StepLine | ✓ | ✓ | | RangeBar | ✓ | ✓ | | RangeColumn | ✓ | ✓ | | SplineRange | ✓ | ✓ | | RangeArea | ✓ | ✓ | | PointAndFigure | \* | ✓ | | Polar | ✓ | ✓ | | Radar | ✓ | ✓ | | BoxPlot | ✓ | ✓ | | ErrorBar | ✓ | ✓ | | Funnel | ✓ | ✓ | | Pyramid | | ✓ | | 3D | | ✓ | | BreakEven | ✓ | | | TreeMap | ✓ | | | Waterfall | ✓ | | | Box & Whisker | ✓ | | \* Available in FinancialChart DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Data Binding DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Data Binding** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | MS SQL Server | ✓ | ✓ | | OLEDB | ✓ | ✓ | | ODBC | ✓ | ✓ | | Object Data Source | ✓ | ✓ | | Oracle | ✓ | ✓ | | SharePoint Objects | ✓ | ✓ | | Unbound Data | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Core Features DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **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 | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Look & Feel DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Look & Feel** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Themes | 23 | 12 | | Custom Palette | ✓ | ✓ | | Background Color | ✓ | ✓ | | Background Image | ✓ | ✓ | | Background Gradient/ HatchStyles | | ✓ | | Border and Border Styles | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Chart Area DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Chart Area** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Header | ✓ | ✓ | | Footer | ✓ | | | Multiple Headers | | ✓ | | Header/ Footer Borders | ✓ | ✓ | | Header/ Footer Alignment | ✓ | ✓ | | Rotate ChartArea | ✓ | | | Multiple Chart Areas | | ✓ | | Toggle Visibility | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Plot Area DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **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 | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Data Labels DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **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 | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Axes DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **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 | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Series DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Series** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Multiple Series | ✓ | ✓ | | Data binding | ✓ | ✓ | | Chart types at series level | ✓ | ✓ | | Styling | ✓ | ✓ | | X and Y value Functions
| ✓ | | | Visibility | X and Y value Functions | Plot/ Plot and Legend/ Hidden | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Legends DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **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 | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Marker Symbols DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Marker Symbols** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Box | ✓ | ✓ | | Dot | ✓ | ✓ | | Diamond | | ✓ | | Triangle | | ✓ | | Cross | | ✓ | | Star4 | | ✓ | | Star5 | | ✓ | | Star6 | | ✓ | | Star10 | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN User Interactions DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **User Interactions** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Tooltips | ✓ | | | Series selection | ✓ | | | Point selection | ✓ | | | Zooming | ✓ | | | Scrolling | ✓ | | | Draggable Annotations | | | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Tooltips DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Tooltips** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Auto tooltips | ✓ | | | Custom content | ✓ | String type only | | Show Delay | ✓ | | | Styling | ✓ | | | Tooltips for different chart elements | | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Pie Charts DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Pie Charts** | **FlexChart** | **MS Chart** | | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Exploded slices | ✓ | ✓ | | Inner Radius | ✓ | ✓ | | Starting Angle of first slice | ✓ | ✓ | | Selected Item Position | ✓ | | | Selected Item Offset | ✓ | | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE DOC-DETAILS-TAG-OPEN DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-OPEN Exporting & Importing DOC-SUMMARY-TAG-CLOSE | **Exporting & Importing** | **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 | ✓ | ✓ | DOC-DETAILS-TAG-CLOSE