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WinForms: highlighting X and Y axes

I'm making a program to graph parabolas, and I want to make the X and Y axes (the ones from (0,0)) a different color. I haven't found any options to do so, and the only solution I've found is to make a large grid and set its increment to half the graph's size. Is there an alternative?
I used the default chart control. I'd expect something like:

You can set Crossing for axis to move the axis to center of chart. Also you can set LineWidth for axis to make it thicker. Also you can set ArrowStyle to have an arrow at the end of axis.
For example, to have a chart like this:
Use such code:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Set Chart Margins
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].Position.Auto = false;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].Position.X = 10;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].Position.Y = 10;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].Position.Width = 80;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].Position.Height = 80;
//Configure X Axis
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.Crossing = 0;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.Interval = 1;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LabelStyle.Enabled = false;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineWidth = 2;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ArrowStyle =
System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.AxisArrowStyle.Lines;
//Configure Y Axis
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.Crossing = 0;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.Interval = 5;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.LineWidth = 2;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.LabelStyle.Enabled = false;
this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.ArrowStyle =
System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.AxisArrowStyle.Lines;
//Set Chart Type
this.chart1.Series[0].ChartType =
System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Spline;
//Set Data
var p = new List<PointF>();
for (int i = -5; i <= 5; i++)
{
p.Add(new PointF(i, i * Math.Abs(i)));
}
this.chart1.DataSource = p;
this.chart1.Series[0].XValueMember = "X";
this.chart1.Series[0].YValueMembers = "Y";
this.chart1.Series[0].IsVisibleInLegend = false;
}

how to update values on axes of point chart in c#

In my project im having a point chart .For each and every 1 second time interval im updating the values in the points chart that's works fine.But while updating the values it is automatically splitting 4 values on x axis like 1,2,3,4 (1,2,3,4 are x axis values).But i want 10 fixed values to be plot on x axis.How to do it?
Please refer my code below ,
series.Name = "Series";
series.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
series.IsVisibleInLegend = false;
series.IsXValueIndexed = true;
series.YAxisType=AxisType.Primary;
series.ChartType = SeriesChartType.Point;
this.chart.Series.Add(series);
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorGrid.LineWidth = 0;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorGrid.LineWidth = 0;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY2.MajorGrid.LineWidth = 0;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.Title = "X Axis value";
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.Title = "Y Axis value1";
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY2.Title = "Y Axis value2";
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScrollBar.Size = 15;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScrollBar.ButtonStyle = ScrollBarButtonStyles.All;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScrollBar.IsPositionedInside = false;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScrollBar.Enabled = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScaleView.Zoom(2,3);
chart.ChartAreas[0].CursorX.IsUserEnabled = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].CursorY.IsUserEnabled = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScaleView.Zoomable = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.ScaleView.Zoomable = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisY2.ScaleView.Zoomable = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].CursorX.IsUserSelectionEnabled = true;
chart.ChartAreas[0].CursorY.IsUserSelectionEnabled = true;

I am assuming you want your x axis shows 0-10 range:
Try add follow code：
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.Maximum = 10;
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.Minimum = 0;

If you use horizontal scroll bar for your chart,use the following code to display 10 intervals on x-axis.
chart.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.ScaleView.Zoom(2, 9);

Asp.net chart, how can I set the X axis label position to left aligned instead of centered?

I've spent hours trying to solve this silly problem. I create an histogram with asp chart control. All I want to do is have the xaxis label on the left of the column instead of centered on it. Xaxis lable doesn't seem to have a position property like series do, so I can't figure it out and it's frustrating.
Here's a sample code of the type of graphic I'm talking about to show you what I get approximately:
private void Graphique()
{
// Creating the series
Series series2 = new Series("Series2");
// Setting the Chart Types
series2.ChartType = SeriesChartType.Column;
// Adding some points
series2.Points.AddXY(1492, 12);
series2.Points.AddXY(2984, 0);
series2.Points.AddXY(4476, 1);
series2.Points.AddXY(5968, 2);
series2.Points.AddXY(7460, 2);
series2.Points.AddXY(8952, 12);
series2.Points.AddXY(10444, 4);
series2.Points.AddXY(11936, 3);
series2.Points.AddXY(13428, 3);
series2.Points.AddXY(14920, 5);
series2.Points.AddXY(16412, 1);
Chart3.Series.Add(series2);
Chart3.Width = 600;
Chart3.Height = 600;
// Series visual
series2.YValueMembers = "Frequency";
series2.XValueMember = "RoundedValue";
series2.BorderWidth = 1;
series2.ShadowOffset = 0;
series2.IsXValueIndexed = true;
// Setting the X Axis
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisX.IsMarginVisible = true;
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisX.Interval = 1;
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisX.Maximum = Double.NaN;
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisX.Title = "kbps";
// Setting the Y Axis
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisY.Interval = 2;
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisY.Maximum = Double.NaN;
Chart3.ChartAreas["ChartArea1"].AxisY.Title = "Frequency";
}
Now my real chart looks like this, Actual result
I would like something similar to this website :
Desired layout chart
You see, the x label is on the left, which makes way more sense considering that each column of an histogram represents the frequency of a range of values.....
Any help would be appreciated...

Did you try to add CustomLabels to replace the default ones? For example:
for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {
area.AxisX.CustomLabels.Add(i + 0.5, i + 1.5, i, 0, LabelMarkStyle.None);
}
The first two are for positioning and the third would be the text value of the label.

C# Excel Chart can't set serie scale

I'm trying to draw a threshold (1 line from left to right). To do so I add the threshold value twice and the value 0 and 1 for xValues then set the scale of X to be from 0 to 1.
public static void AddThreshold(Chart xlChart, double value, string name, int color, bool secondary)
{
Series series = xlChart.SeriesCollection().NewSeries();
series.Name = name;
series.XValues = new List<int>() { 0, 1 }.ToArray();
series.Values = new List<double>() { value, value }.ToArray();
Axis xAxis, yAxis;
if (secondary)
{
series.AxisGroup = XlAxisGroup.xlSecondary;
xAxis = (Axis)xlChart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, XlAxisGroup.xlSecondary);
yAxis = (Axis)xlChart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, XlAxisGroup.xlSecondary);
}
else
{
xAxis = (Axis)xlChart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlCategory, XlAxisGroup.xlPrimary);
yAxis = (Axis)xlChart.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, XlAxisGroup.xlPrimary);
}
xAxis.MinimumScale = 0;//getting COM error here
xAxis.MaximumScale = 1;
yAxis.Delete();
series.ChartType = XlChartType.xlXYScatterLinesNoMarkers;
series.MarkerSize = 3;
series.Border.LineStyle = XlMarkerStyle.xlMarkerStyleDash;
series.Border.Color = color;
}
But I'm always getting a COM error and can't figure out the problem. To make things more annoying the exact method was working in a different project (don't ask about it because the code there was partially deleted by mistake and I am not rewriting it).

You can't set min and max of an axis if it's not a value type of axis, and only XY Scatter charts have an X axis that is a value axis. You need to specify the chart type of the added series as XY Scatter before setting the axis scale.
So move this:
series.ChartType = XlChartType.xlXYScatterLinesNoMarkers;
above this:
xAxis.MinimumScale = 0;

Draw date on X axis and time on Y axis using ZedGraph and C#

In ZedGraph, how do I draw a time (like 00:00, 02:00, 04:00, etc.) on the Y axis and date (like 12-Apr-11, 13-Apr-11, 14-Apr-11, etc.) on the X axis?
The bar settings has been set to BarType.Stack.
Sample code will be very helpful.

Here is a sample that I constructed. I was not sure what sort of data you would plot along the Y Axis using a time format except for something like an accrued amount of time (such as number of hours employees worked).
ZedGraph uses an XDate format for time along the axes, which are doubles converted from datetimes. However in a stacked bar, I am not sure if ZedGraph can aggregate the times properly (I couldn't get it to work). Thus, in my example I used a Linear type for the Y Axis and changed the format so that it displays as hours and minutes.
Note that the min and max of both axes' scales have been set. This is especially important along the X axis, as the auto setting gets it wrong. Some of the other settings I specify clean up the minor tic marks, etc.
Here's an example showing a stacked bar graph for number of hours worked by three employees during each day:
const int NumberOfBars = 5;
GraphPane myPane = zedGraphControl1.GraphPane;
myPane.Title.Text = "Employee Hours";
myPane.BarSettings.Type = BarType.Stack;
myPane.BarSettings.ClusterScaleWidth = 1D;
// X AXIS SETTINGS
myPane.XAxis.Title.Text = "Date";
myPane.XAxis.Type = AxisType.Date;
myPane.XAxis.Scale.Format = "dd-MMM-yy";
myPane.XAxis.Scale.MajorUnit = DateUnit.Day;
myPane.XAxis.Scale.MajorStep = 1;
myPane.XAxis.Scale.Min = new XDate(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-NumberOfBars));
myPane.XAxis.Scale.Max = new XDate(DateTime.Now);
myPane.XAxis.MajorTic.IsBetweenLabels = true;
myPane.XAxis.MinorTic.Size = 0;
myPane.XAxis.MajorTic.IsInside = false;
myPane.XAxis.MajorTic.IsOutside = true;
// Y AXIS SETTINGS
myPane.YAxis.Title.Text = "Hours Worked";
myPane.YAxis.Type = AxisType.Linear;
myPane.YAxis.Scale.Format = #"00:\0\0";
myPane.YAxis.Scale.Min = 0;
myPane.YAxis.Scale.Max = 24;
myPane.YAxis.Scale.MajorStep = 1;
myPane.YAxis.MinorTic.Size = 0;
// Construct some sample data
Random r = new Random();
List<double> DatesX = new List<double>();
double[] JohnHours = new double[NumberOfBars];
double[] JoanHours = new double[NumberOfBars];
double[] JaneHours = new double[NumberOfBars];
for (int i = 0; i < NumberOfBars; i++)
{
DatesX.Add(new XDate(DateTime.Today.AddDays(-i)));
JohnHours[i] = r.Next(1, 9);
JoanHours[i] = r.Next(1, 9);
JaneHours[i] = r.Next(1, 9);
}
myPane.AddBar("John", DatesX.ToArray(), JohnHours, Color.Red);
myPane.AddBar("Joan", DatesX.ToArray(), JoanHours, Color.Blue);
myPane.AddBar("Jane", DatesX.ToArray(), JaneHours, Color.Green);