Chart ModelKit is a legacy .NET data visualization component developed by Perpetuum Software LLC. It was designed to help developers build and integrate 2D charts, graphs, and corporate dashboards directly into Windows Forms and Web Forms applications. Key Features
WYSIWYG Designer: It featured a standalone “What You See Is What You Get” visual editor that allowed developers to customize axes, labels, legends, and titles using a mouse—completely at design time or run time without writing code.
Open Object Architecture: Developers could combine independent visual objects arbitrarily to build complex, non-standard chart configurations.
Flexible Data Binding: It natively supported standard .NET data sources, including ADO.NET, IList, and IListSource.
Extensive Chart Types: The suite included multiple 2D options like Pie, Bar, Stacked Bar, Spline, Line, Bubble, Area, Stock, and Candle Stick charts. Product Ecosystem
Chart ModelKit was commonly distributed as part of a larger suite called the .NET ModelKit Suite (and later rebranded or packaged with SharpShooter Charts). It was built to seamlessly bind to OLAP ModelKit. This allowed businesses to process multi-dimensional data cubing and dynamically update visual charts based on active pivot table filtering.
Note: As this is a legacy framework originally targeting older ecosystems like .NET Framework 2.0/3.5, it is primarily referenced today in the maintenance of legacy enterprise software.
If you are looking to work with Chart ModelKit,NET Core/.NET 8+.
Joint use of Chart ModelKit and OLAP ModelKit in version 3.6
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