A variety of Chart Engines using GDI+ in VB.NET

The original code came from Scott Guthrie's chart engine example. The differences from original code are:

• Some of chart's attributes are exposed as properties.
   
  • ChartGenerator.ChartLine.Color
  • ChartGenerator.ChartLine.Style
  • ChartGenerator.ChartLine.Width
     
• The above are used for setting the properties of each line from chart.
   
  • ChartGenerator.Engine.ImageBackgroundColor
  • ChartGenerator.Engine.ImageHeight
  • ChartGenerator.Engine.ImageWidth
  • ChartGenerator.Engine.IsScaled - determines when the chart will be scaled or not.
     
• The minimum and maximum points are calculated inside using Array methods. We copied the Y values of each line into an array, sorted the array and using the first and the last member of array determined the maximum and the minimum.

Testing code:
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Imports ChartEngine.ChartGenerator
.....
'initing the chart's data
Dim myChartData As New ChartData
Dim XValues As Long() = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}
myChartData.XValues = XValues
'line 1
Dim Line1 As New ChartLine
Dim YValues1 As Long() = {1280, 1280, 1280, 1270, 1270, 1280, 1270, 1260, 1260}
Line1.ChartLine.LinesValues = YValues1
myChartData.Lines.Add(Line1)
'line 2
Dim Line2 As New ChartLine
Dim YValues2 As Long() = {1200, 1180, 1296, 1370, 1257, 1120, 1270, 1230, 1290}
Line2.ChartLine.LinesValues = YValues2
Line2.Color = Color.Yellow
Line2.Width = 2
Line2.Style = Drawing.Drawing2D.DashStyle.Dash
myChartData.Lines.Add(Line2)
'calling the engine
Dim oEngine As New ChartEngine.ChartGenerator.Engine
oEngine.ImageHeight = 200
oEngine.ImageWidth = 300
oEngine.IsScaled = True
oEngine.ImageBackgroundColor = color.LightGray
' Render BitMap Stream Back To Client
Dim StockBitMap As Bitmap = oEngine.DrawChart(myChartData)
StockBitMap.Save(Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.JPEG)
.....

and the testing code for C# version of engine:
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using ChartGenerator;
.....
ChartData myChartData = new ChartData() ;
float[] XValues = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
myChartData.XValues = XValues;
//line 1
ChartLine Line1 = new ChartLine ();
float[] YValues1 = {1280, 1280, 1280, 1270, 1270, 1280, 1270, 1260, 1260};
Line1.Values = YValues1;
Line1.Color = Color.Black ;
myChartData.Lines.Add(Line1);
//line 2
ChartLine Line2 = new ChartLine ();
float[] YValues2 ={1200, 1180, 1296, 1370, 1257, 1120, 1270, 1230, 1290};
Line2.Values = YValues2;
Line2.Color = Color.Yellow ;
Line2.Width = 2;
Line2.Style = DashStyle.Dash;
myChartData.Lines.Add(Line2);
//calling the engine
ChartGenerator.Engine oEngine = new Engine();
oEngine.ImageHeight = 200;
oEngine.ImageWidth = 300;
oEngine.ImageBackgroundColor = Color.LightGray ;
oEngine.IsScaled = true ;
// Render BitMap Stream Back To Client
Bitmap StockBitMap = oEngine.DrawChart(myChartData);
StockBitMap.Save(Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.JPEG);

and the result is:



You can easily add the code for grid and axis to have a ready-for-production engine.