Chart Control
Updated: July 2008
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The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office. Document-level projects
Application-level projects
For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type. |
The Chart control is a chart object that exposes events and can be bound to data. When you add a chart to a worksheet, Visual Studio Tools for Office creates a Chart object that you can program against directly without having to traverse the Microsoft Office Excel object model.
You can add Chart controls to a Microsoft Office Excel worksheet at design time or at run time in a document-level project.
Starting in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you can add Chart controls to a worksheet at run time in an application-level add-in. For more information, see How to: Add Chart Controls to Worksheets.
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Dynamically created chart objects are not persisted in the worksheet as host controls when the worksheet is closed. For more information, see Adding Controls to Office Documents at Run Time. |
A Chart control only supports simple data binding. The Chart control should be bound to a data source using the DataBindings properties. If the data in the bound dataset is updated through any mechanism, the Chart control reflects the changes.
All formatting that can be applied to a Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Chart can also be applied to a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart control. This includes borders, fonts, chart type, gridlines, legend, and data labels.
The following events are available for the Chart control:
