Rudi Grobler

The last couple of weeks I have been playing with the Silverlight Toolkit’s chart controls! These controls are incredibly powerful (and free)

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. It includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

I’ve written 2 CodeProject articles about some of the cool stuff these controls can do

Styling a Silverlight Chart

In this article I detail step by step how to restyle a line chart to look similar to the Google Analytics charts

How to create stock charts using Silverlight Toolkit

And in my latest article, I explorer how to add financial/stock data into a chart (by creating a candlestick chart)

For a more detailed list of Silverlight Toolkit resources, check out this list on David Anson’s blog