In order to continuously evolve Dundas components - making them the best they can be - we're offering a line of fully commented add-ons to provide you with additional features and functionality.
With a team dedicated to developing powerful add-on modules, we're constantly updating this page, so check back every month to see what's new. Do you have an idea for a custom add-on - or have you already created one? If so, tell us about it and we'll see how you and others can benefit from it.
Last updated: Apr 24th, 2008
Six Sigma for Chart
Chart Data Table Helper
Range Midpoint for Gauge
Chart Data Table Helper *NEW* (updated 04/21/08) The ChartDataTableHelper add-on lets you add a small table containing your chart's data to the chart area. In Windows Forms, you can also connect a chart area to a DataGridView so that the grid's data comes from the chart, and changes to the grid modify the chart's data directly.
Six Sigma *NEW* (updated 04/21/08) The SixSigma add-on lets you add Six Sigma charts to your Dundas Chart project. C-Chart, P-Chart, NP-Chart, U-Chart, S-Chart, R-Chart, Run Chart, XBAR Chart and Individuals Chart are all supported.
Note: The SixSigma add-on requires Dundas Chart Enterprise. The annotation features it uses are not available in Dundas Chart Professional.
Axis Aligner Getting multiple axes aligned properly can be a headache, due to the need to calculate the interval with different scales. The built-in zooming and scrolling features work only on the primary axis, so the secondary axis isn't updated at the same time. A disjointed primary and secondary axes can make the chart difficult to read or even incorrect. This add-on aligns the tickmarks, gridlines and axis labels when using secondary axes in a chart area (if zooming and scrolling are enabled).
Mouse Move Helper Mouse-Move Helper makes it easy and efficient to handle mouse movement over a chart area without bogging down your system. This lets you add callouts and labels that follow the mouse as it moves through your data.
Pareto Chart Pareto Chart makes it simple (with two lines of code!) to add a Pareto series to a chart with an existing column series.
Step Column StepColumn converts a simple column chart into a step column chart, which is an efficient way to see the breakdown of criteria (and those elements which make it up). This add-on makes the change with just a single method call.
Variable Width Column Most chart types in Dundas Chart are plotted so that the X value determines where each point should be plotted along the X axis. The variable-width column plots columns with the width determined by its X value. This makes each column "stacked" against each other along the X axis. This add-on is a static utility class that converts a data series into a special form that plots according to width.
Series Dimmer The Series Dimmer class, based on the Series Marker class, lets you dim and undim a series or data point, based on the user's mouse position or mouse clicks. This lets you highlight an important or selected series without hiding any data. The Series Marker class supports responding to two types of user interactivity - mouse clicks and mouse hovers. For example, if the mouse cursor hovers over a data point, this data point (or its series) can be highlighted. When the mouse pointer leaves the data point, it will return to normal.
Spike Removal Spike Removal modifies an input series so its values lie within a specified range and tolerance. This makes it easy to adjust errant data points without destroying the original data (it remains on the chart as a label and/or tooltip).
PowerPoint Export for Chart The ChartPPTExport add-on lets you easily create PowerPoint files from a Dundas Chart object. You can also insert a chart into a specially-constructed PowerPoint template.
Range Polygon for Chart The RangePolygon add-on implements the RangePolygonControl class. Use RangePolygonControl to transform two intersecting line graphs into a difference line graph, with the areas between the lines colored to indicate areas of interest.
Band Pass Filters for Chart The BandPass add-on implements Finite-duration Impulse Response (FIR) filters in the FIRFilters class. Specifically, a low pass filter (which removes high frequency signals or noise; the Simple Moving Average financial formula is a low poss filter), high pass filter (to remove low frequency components, making it useful for tracking market turns) and a band pass filter, which combines the two.
Pivot Stage for Chart PivotStage lets you compare two or more series by selecting a pivot point in each series. The chart's X axis is adjusted so the selected points become the origin of each series. For example, these two series could represent sales for different products. The selected points mark the start of marketing initiatives for each product. Because the marketing initiatives started at different times, it's difficult to compare the effectiveness of each.
