We are proud to announce that Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone
7 Beta has been released in version 1.9 of Visiblox Charts and can be downloaded for free
here (note: the prerequisite for this release is to download
and install the Silverlight Toolkit for
Windows Phone). To get started developing on the phone read our
tutorial on
getting started with Visiblox Charts for WP7.
Visiblox Charts for WP7 is the first charting library that has
support for seamingless zooming, panning, and selection - all
optimized for the phone. Similar to Visiblox Charts on other
platforms it also provides
excellent performance, can be easily customized and styled and
was built to be easy to extend. For a quick tour on the Windows
Phone version, see the following video:
Features
Some features that make Visiblox Charts for Windows Phone 7 an
ideal choice to use for developing on the phone are the
following:
- Wide range of supported series: line, column,
bar, staircase, band and pie series. Full support for all Visiblox
Charts series will be added soon.
- Exceptional performance, real-time zooming and
panning: the component was built with performance being
one of the most important factors. Performance on the phone, where
resources are precious, is even more important than on the desktop
or web. Visiblox Charts handles drawing, zooming and panning of
hundreds of on-screen points seamlessly.
- Support for point and series selection, optimized for
the phone: selecting points on the phone is different than
on a computer: a tap gesture is much less precise than a mouse
click. Visiblox Charts for WP7 has selection detection optimized
for touch events meaning that even the smallest chart point can be
selected by tapping close enough to it.
- Easy to style and customize: Visiblox Charts
for WP7 has a new default Palette and style which is consistent
with the Windows Phone 7 styles, and also respects the user's
colour preferences. However, the chart, axes and series expose
properties needed to style them in any possible way and with the
help of Palettes, styling of series can be defined at an
application level.
- Built for extensibility: at all the key points
in our API you will find a base class that makes extension easy and
an interface to implement if the base class absolutely doesn't do
what you need.
- Support for multiple X axis and multiple Y
axis: the component allows defining of unlimited X and Y
axes, allowing of plotting of high complexity charts even on your
phone
Getting Started
We've put together an article on creating basic types of series
and implementing zooming and panning on the charts:
Getting Started on Visiblox for WP7 - Basic Charts, Selection and
Zooming.
Visiblox Charts for WP7 is an evolution of Visiblox Charts for
Silverlight. Apart from the behaviours within Visiblox for WP7,
their API is nearly identical, thus the examples, tutorials and
blog posts on the Silverlight component can be used for the WP7
component as well. Some of the materials that you might find useful
are:
Why not grab this new
version and give it a spin?
