Histogram Control

Edit Cells/Bins Appearance

This page describes how to change the appearance of the cells/bins of a histogram series. The histogram control of the .Net Analytics package is of the following type:

Histogram (HistogramChart)

The series class of the histogram chart is:

HistogramSeries

and the following properties are responsible for the cells/bins appearance:

CellFillColor: the color of the cells/bins
CellFillWithPattern: if true, the following two properties will also be used
CellFillPattern: the pattern for the cells/bins
CellBackColor: this is used with CellFillColor to create the pattern

The first step is to include the necessary namespaces for the controls and add a new series.

Change Cells/Bins Appearance

Below, we will change the appearance of the cells/bins for a Histogram series (named hsSeries in the examples below):

[Visual Basic]

' Change the color of the cells/bins

                  hsSeries.CellFillColor = Color.Green

                  

                  ' The following also adds a pattern to the cells/bins

                  hsSeries.CellFillWithPattern = True

                  hsSeries.CellFillPattern = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.HatchStyle.DottedDiamond

                  hsSeries.CellBackColor = Color.Gold

[Visual C#]

// Change the color of the cells/bins

                  hsSeries.CellFillColor = Color.Green;

                  

                  // The following also adds a pattern to the cells/bins

                  hsSeries.CellFillWithPattern = true;

                  hsSeries.CellFillPattern = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.HatchStyle.DottedDiamond;

                  hsSeries.CellBackColor = Color.Gold;

Charts showing before and after the cells/bins appearance has been edited:

Histogram chart without cell appearance edited

Histogram chart with cell appearance edited