Feature Comparison / Comparing FlexCharts across Platforms
Comparing FlexCharts across Platforms

Apart from WinForms, ComponentOne provides FlexChart on all other popular platforms as well including WPF, UWP, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, and Xamarin. Although most of the features are common across all the platforms, this topic gives you a quick comparison between the FlexCharts available for desktop platforms, that is, WinForms, WPF and UWP. For easy navigation, we have broadly divided these features into different categories. Click on the corresponding category in the right-hand pane or scroll down to know more about availability of a particular feature.

Chart Types

Chart Types Win WPF UWP
Line Charts
Line
LineStacked
LineStacked100
Spline
SplineStacked
SplineStacked100
LineSymbols
StackedLineSymbols
StackedLineSymbols100
SplineSymbols
SplineSymbolsStacked
StackedSplineSymbols100
Step
StepSymbols
Area Charts
Area
StackedArea
StackedArea100
SplineArea
StackedSplineArea
StepArea
StackedSplineArea100
Bar and Column Charts
Bar
StackedBar
StackedBar100
Column
StackedColumn
StackedColumn100
Point Charts
Bubble
Scatter
Pie Charts
Pie
Doughnut
PieExploded
DoughnutExploded
Financial Charts
CandleStick
Stock/ HighLowOpenClose
Heikin-Ashi Available in Financial Chart of respective platforms:
LineBreak/ThreeLineBreak
Renko
Kagi
ColumnVolume
EquiVolume
CandleVolume
ArmsCandleVolume
Statistical Charts
Box-and-Whisker
ErrorBar
Histogram
Cumulative Histogram

Frequency Polygon

Cumulative Frequency Polygon

RangedHistogram
Gaussian Curve

Pareto

Waterfall
Specialized Charts
Floating Bar

Radar
Polar
Funnel
Heat Map

Gantt

Sunburst
TreeMap
Trendlines
2D

Data Binding

Data Binding Win WPF UWP
Objects implementing IEnumerable
Batch Updates

Look & Feel

Look & Feel Win WPF UWP
Predefined Palettes

16

16

16

Custom Palette
Background Color
Background Image
Background Gradient/ HatchStyles
Border and Border Styles
Render Modes

Native/DirectX

Native/Direct2D/Direct3D

Native/Direct3D

Chart Area

Chart Area Win WPF UWP
Header
Footer
Header/Footer Borders
Header/Footer Alignment
Rotate ChartArea
Coordinate Conversion Methods

Plot Area

Plot Area Win WPF UWP
Plot margins
Markers for PlotElements

Supported for all symbol and point chart types

Supported for all symbol and point chart types

Supported for all symbol and point chart types

Markers Size
Markers: Border and Border styling
Background Image/ Gradient/ HatchStyle for PlotElements

Data Labels

DataLabels Win WPF UWP
Offset
Connecting Lines
Borders and Border styling
Styling
Format String
Custom Content
Manage overlapping
Positions for Cartesian charts

Bottom/ Center/ Left/ None/ Right/ Top

Bottom/ Center/ Left/ None/ Right/ Top

Bottom/ Center/ Left/ None/ Right/ Top

Positions for Pie charts

Center/ Inside/ Outside/ None

Center/ Inside/ Outside/ None

Center/ Inside/ Outside/ None

Annotations

Annotations Win WPF UWP
Pre-defined Shapes
Position
Attaching Annotations
Offset
Styling
Tooltip
Connector
Customization

Axis

Axis Win WPF UWP
Axis: 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: Overlapping

Axis: Reverse
Axis Grouping
AxisLine Styling
Labels: Alignment
Labels: Angle
Labels: Overlapping
Major/ Minor GridLines
Major/ Minor TickMarks
Major/ Minor Units
Title and Title styling
Configure Origin

Any value

Any value

TickMarks Position

Cross/ Inside/ Outside/ None

Cross/ Inside/ Outside/ None

Cross/ Inside/ Outside/ None

Position

Top/ Bottom/ Left/ Right/ Auto/ None

Top/ Bottom/ Left/ Right/ Auto/ None

Top/ Bottom/ Left/ Right/ Auto/ None

Series

Series Win WPF UWP
Multiple Series
Data binding
Chart types at series level
Styling
Visibility

Plot/ Legend/ Both Plot and Legend/ Hidden

Plot/ Legend/ Both Plot and Legend/ Hidden

Plot/ Legend/ Both Plot and Legend/ Hidden

Conditional Formatting
Stacked Groups
Handle Empty/ Null Data Points

Legends

Legends Win WPF UWP
Title
Title Style
Toggle Series Visibility from legend

Orientation

Auto/ Vertical/ Horizontal

Auto/ Vertical/ Horizontal

Auto/ Vertical/ Horizontal

Position

Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom

Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom

Left/ Top/ Right/ Bottom

TextWrap
Custom Legend Icon

Marker Symbols

Marker Symbols Win WPF UWP
Box
Dot

User Interactions

User Interactions Win WPF UWP
Animation
Tooltips
Series selection
Point selection
LineMarkers aka Crosshairs
Range Selector
Zooming
Scrolling
Hit Test
Sunburst Drilldown
TreeMap Drilldown

Tooltips

Tooltips Win WPF UWP
Auto tooltips
Custom content
Show Delay
Styling

Pie Charts

Pie Charts Win WPF UWP
Exploded slices
Inner Radius
Starting Angle of first slice

Exporting/Importing & Printing

Exporting/Importing & Printing Win WPF UWP
Export to JPEG/ JPG
Export to PNG
Export to SVG
Export to BMP
Serialization Support
Printing support

Footprint

Footprint Win WPF UWP
Assembly Size

229KB

183KB

218KB

See Also