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: Financial Chart for WinForms Financial Chart for WPF Financial Chart for UWP
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