Nateo Time Chart Control: Tutorials

Overview

In this section you will find a set of hands on tutorials for creating applications with the Nateo Time Chart Control. Starting with very simple examples of setting up the control the right way we proceed to some useful techniques that are worth looking at.
 
For doing these exercises it is assumed that you are already familiar with the basics of developing Windows Forms applications and understand C#. These examples are created in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and some of the screen shots are taken from there, but of course you can choose any other IDE.
 
For a good understanding on how the Time Chart and its components work, please refer to the section Nateo Concepts.
 

Tutorials:

Tutorial	Description
1. Empty Time Chart	Getting started: Create a simple Windows Form application with a Time Chart Control in it. This is the simplest case possible and will work as a starting point for your application and the following tutorials.
2. Data Display	Set up display definitions for various data types, create row headers, assign data to rows, create data objects and add them to the Time Chart.
3. Data Objects	Storing more complex data structures in the Time Chart.
4. Row Headers and Flank Controls	By creating Flank Controls (one or more) in your Form you create space for Row Headers that act as legends for the data in the respective rows.
5. Huge Data Sets	This tutorial gives an example on handling a huge data set. Not only the data itself will be loaded from a file but also the configuration of the Time Chart will be automized.
6. Bitmaps and Icons	A short glance on efficient image management in huge data sets.
7. Custom Object Drawing	This tutorial explains how you do drawing of objects by your own code in order to determine how objects look like.
8. Categories	This tutorial explains the creation of categories.
9. Tooltips	This tutorial shows how to create tooltips for your data objects.
10. Time Chart Events	Beyond the events all controls support, the NtTimeChartControl also supports several specific events. This tutorial covers some of them.
11. HeaderControl Column Colors	In the Header Control you can have different colors for weekend days or holidays. This tutorial shows how.
12. Browsing the Time Axis	Besides scrolling left and right you might even want to jump to a certain date and time in one step. This small tutorial shows how you navigate through time.