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Closed 10 years ago.
I am in need of a component for drawing financial charts with the following features for my application:
Live plotting.
OHLC Chart, candlestick chart and previous day close chart.
Various Analysis studies.
Easy distribution with designing tools.
Thank you.
If you are developing Windows Forms or web applications, the open-source Zedgraph is a good solution. You can see examples of OHLC and candlestick charts here. There is also sufficient designer support for incorporating Zedgraph graph controls into your forms.
.NET Framework 4.0 also contains Windows Forms charting out-of-the-box, although Zedgraph is more powerful.
WPF charting is available in the WPF Toolkit on Codeplex. It is even less complete than its Windows Forms correspondent, but on WPF it should at least be a decent open-source alternative.
Highcharts or Highstock - http://www.highcharts.com/
Highcharts or Highstock are used for web development though. Is that what you're after?
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Closed 9 years ago.
I'm looking for a Docking library for using in the C# application. It can be designed for WPF, but I prefer WinForms applications. Of course, it should provide standart docking opportunities.
I'm going to use it in an application where user can control a huge amount of different processes which can appear and disappear dynamically during the application lifetime. Thus, the main criteria is the following: I should have opportunity to create docking windows and controls located on it dynamically and save the information about all docking windows positions in some file (content I can save using other way). After the application was relaunched it should restore all the docking windows in their states before the application close (and all of their content, but I can load it manually).
Unfortunately, I have found the only docking components library that contains all the required features - it's Telerik WinControls. But it's too slow for my purposes.
Please advise me a good docking library!
AvalonDock
It provides binding mechanisms for easy manipulation and MVVM and good serialization mechanics. It is the docking library used in SharpDevelop. Plus its free.
Actipro makes one
Actipro Docking Library
I have used the WPF version (not WinForms) of their docking library and it is pretty good. I'm not sure why you said the Telerik docking library was too slow.
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Closed 10 years ago.
Currently, I am looking for a (commercial or free) .NET/C# image processing library for a WinForms project to apply customizable effects like Instagram or Microsoft Office Word does, e.g.:
I found plenty of image libraries like:
ImageMagick
Lead Tools
Free Image
DotImage
...
Unfortunately, all these libraries seem to provide a rather low-level way of manipulating images. When it comes to high-level effects like borders, rotation, vintage filters like Instagram, etc., I found zero libraries.
(Ironically, for JavaScript, there are quite a few libraries out there)
Maybe there is no market for such a library, still I would love to have this function in my application without doing everything on my own.
Therefore my question is:
Is there a .NET library available to have a customizable and extendable way of applying various high-level filters to images?
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Closed 11 years ago.
Is WPF include all the feature of Windows Form + Additional Feature? Because I found some of features of WinForms are not available in WPF.
update me! The importance of Windows Form than WPF.
WPF is a completely different approach to user interfaces than Windows Forms.
It has a much more flexible design, which allows you to do a lot more things, often with cleaner code. This is especially true when you fully take advantage of the data binding support in WPF.
However, Windows Forms is very mature - as such, there is a huge, mature ecosystem built around it. This does include some tooling and features that don't exist in WPF.
That being said, most new development within the .NET Framework related to user interfaces is XAML based. I would strongly suggest using WPF or Silverlight over Windows Forms for any new development. I wrote a detailed series on migrating to WPF from Windows Forms which discusses many of the benefits and advantages of WPF.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I would like to create an application that shows the history of disk usage.
I have already create a backend for geting data and now I would like to show this data in a line chart like this:
As you can see, I get date (DateTime) and usage (int) foreach disk.
My question:
Which silverlight component/tools should I use, to show the charts?
I'm looking for a free solution that is easy to understand/use.
There are a few options:
Visiblox, fast, high performance chart
Silverlight Toolkit a Microsoft chart, but a bit slow
Visifire, high performance chart with great looks and interactivity
My recommendations is to use Visifire. Its easy to use and has simple XAML structure. Visifire does most of the work automatically like placing AxisXLabels in multiple rows, AxisLabels in angled form, and auto skipping of those labels if there is an overlap. Apart from it there are other great exciting features provided by Visifire like Indicator, Zooming etc.
Last but not the least, it is the high performance charting component.
http://www.visifire.com/high_performance_silverlight_examples.php
For more info, please check out the exhaustive documentation.
http://www.visifire.com/visifire_charts_gauges_documentation.php
I would recommend you Silverlight Toolkit
see this and this for more details, sample code and sample charts
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I am looking out for a good open source Reporting tool/framework for windows based application (WPF).
The database I am using is sql server 2005.
The typical reports format which I am interested is for e.g. Trial balance, balance sheet, etc (typical banking / finance reporting application).
There should be good support for charting as well.
If anyone has any experience with reporting for WPF application, your inputs will be highly appreciated.
Take a look at http://wpfreports.codeplex.com/
Since this may form part of the answer, I thought of putting this in the answer section.
I just found this series of article
WPF multipage reports (note: original link dead, replaced with Wayback Machine link).
Thought of putting this here as this may benefit some other learner. This article walks through creating a reporting framework for LOB Apps.
As the saying goes "A Bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush", I will have a deep look at this until something else comes up with something better :)
PdfReport is a code first reporting engine, which is built on top of the iTextSharp and EPPlus libraries. It's compatible with both .NET 3.5+ Web and Windows applications.
As open source, this doesn't exist, at least not yet.
It probably doesn't exist commerical offering either. The WPF component market is just getting started.