ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Customizing the Background and Plotting Area

The Chart control provides many properties to customize almost every aspect of the background and plotting area, including the background color, border colors and widths, gradients, and data point colors. Some of the properties you can use to customize a chart’s appearance follow:

• BackColor— The color of the chart’s background.

• BackGradientStyle— Specifies how a gradient should be applied to the background.

• BackSecondaryColor— The secondary color used for background gradients.

• Palette— Specifies the color palette to use for chart’s data points.

• BorderSkin-SkinStyle— Provides a number of built-in styles to render a shaded, three-dimensional border around the entire chart.

Most of these properties ...