Creating Bar Graphs for Windows Forms

[Ange1ofD4rkness]

Okay so right now I am working on a program that gathers data and then displays it. For instance how many items exist and how much of them exist and what is their rank.

Well I want to display these count of how much each rank exists with a bar graph in C#, but have no clue how.

[codes4f0x0d]

For charting I use Microsoft's MSDN's "Samples Environment for Microsoft Chart Controls"
Samples Environment for .NET Framework 4 Chart Controls Released!
You can now download Visual Studio 2010 projects that contain all the samples targeting .NET Framework 4.

Download Description
The samples environment for Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET Framework contains over 200 samples for both ASP.NET and Windows Forms. The samples cover every major feature in Chart Controls for .NET Framework. They enable you to see the Chart controls in action as well as use the code as templates for your own web and windows applications. http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart
Go to Downloads:
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4418
And Download: "Windows Forms Samples"

Note: The above is for .NET Framework 4.0, there are files for other versions of .NET i think.

Alternatively you can look for third party tools and libraries, if you do a simple Google search you can find many, here's one:
http://www.softwarefx.com/sfxnetproducts/cfxlitefornet/

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When I started in programming and before I knew these I used to make my own charts using existing windows forms controls like buttons, panels and picture boxes and changing their Size properties based on the data, but in my opinion it's better to use third party tools or the samples from Microsoft as making your own takes time.

[ddanbe]

I once posted this snippet: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/csharp/code/238532
It cannot be that hard to turn that into a forms app.

[Singlem]

Can use zedgraph I found that nice and easy to work with