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The Visiblox team is delighted to announce the availability of Visiblox Charts v2.2! You can get a copy of the free edition now right here. If you are a Premium customer with a valid support license, contact support to arrange your free upgrade to the new version. Not yet a Premium customer? Head on over to get access to our excellent support along with updates and bug fix releases and get access to the premium features.

We've been busy over the last few months putting some great new improvements into our charts.

Visiblox Charts has a good reputation for its performance and flexibility - we think it's a reputation well deserved. What's more our customers consistently give us excellent feedback about the quality of the support we provide - which we're absolutely delighted about. Rest assured that we're not standing still though. We're continuing to develop the product and extend its capabilities, so we thought we'd take a minute or two and give you an idea of what we've been working on that you can expect in the next release.

The Visiblox team is delighted to announce the availability of Visiblox Charts v2.1!

New Features

• Discontinuous line series - This new series type allows the plotting of lines with gaps or alternately styled segments. There are some examples of these in our examples gallery: Discontinous Line Example and Projection Example.

• Data labels - A number of chart series (line, bar, column and band series) now support data labels. These are labels placed next to the data points showing the value for that point. This is demonstrated by the example found here.

• Reverse Axes - All axis types now support reversing, which allows them to be plotted in the reverse direction with the larger values at the bottom or left and the smaller values at the top or right for Y and X respectively. See this in action in our reversed axis example.

• Theme support and styling changes - We’ve introduced themes in Visiblox Charts 2.1 which with the simple switch of a resource file restyle the visuals of the chart. To support themes the styling code in Visiblox Charts has been reviewed and improved. In addition some pre-defined themes are included in the premium distribution which can be used as is or modified to suit. The previously mentioned example shows off the packaged themes.

• Expression Blend support - To complement the new styling improvements, the premium edition of Visiblox Charts 2.1 now comes with design time support for Expression Blend.

• Improved MVVM support - One of the missing jigsaw pieces to our MVVM support was to make the BindableDataSeries' ItemSource property bindable. This has now been implemented, making the use of Visiblox Charts in an MVVM context even easier.

• New per-point styling on bar and column series - When you're only plotting one column or bar series on the chart, it can be desirable to have each bar or column rendered in a different colour. In previous versions of Visiblox Charts this wouldn't have been easily possible, but we've now introduced a per-point styling mode on bar and column series to support this. The Series will render each bar or column in a different colour, based on the Chart's palette.

Introduction

We get a lot of great feedback from our customers on what features they would like to see and we try and use that feedback to inform our product roadmap. In the months since the last release the product team have been beavering away in the back room preparing a new release with some really exciting new features, so I thought it might be a nice idea to give you an idea of what's in the pipeline.

The main focus areas for this release have been implementing a number of features our customers have been asking for and working on the visuals of Visiblox Charts.