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Difference Between FlexChartField and FlexChart
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FlexChart field inherits majority of properties from FlexChart. However, since FlexChart field is used in reporting scenarios, few properties and their nature are different from FlexChart. The major difference between the two controls appears in binding the controls with data as the binding properties are different in FlexChart field from that of FlexChart. The following table shows the high-level object model difference between the FlexChartField (FlexReport) and FlexChart (WinForms).

FlexChartField (FlexReport) FlexChart (WinForms)
- AccessibleDescription
- AccessibleName
- AccessibleRole
- AllowDrop
Anchor Anchor
AutoHeight -
AutoWidth AutoWidth
AxisX AxisX
AxisY AxisY
Background BackColor
- BackgroundImage
- BackgroundImageLayout
- Binding
- BindingMode
- BindingX
Bookmark -
Border -
BodersPlitHorzMode -
BordersSplitVertMode -
- CausesValidation
CategoryGroups -
ChartType ChartType
- ContextMenuStrip
- Cursor
DataLabel DataLabel
- DataMember
- DataSource
- Dock
DataSourceName -
- Enabled
Font Font
Footer Footer
- ForeColor
ForcePageBreak -
- GenerateMember
Header Header
Height -
Hyperlink -
- ImeMode
Left -
Legend Legend
- LegendToggle
- Location
- Locked
- Margin
MarginBottom -
MarginLeft -
MarginRight -
MarginTop -
- MaximumSize
- MinimumSize
- Modifiers
Options Options
OutlineLabel -
OutlineParent -
- Padding
Palette Palette
PlotMargin PlotMargin
PlotStyle PlotStyle
- RenderMode
RightToLeft RightToLeft
Rotated Rotated
- SelectedIndex
- SelectedMode
- SelectionStyle
Series Series
SeriesGroups -
- Size
- SmoothingMode
SplitHorzBehavior -
SplitVertBehavior -
Stacking Stacking
Tag -
- Text
- ToolTip
- ToolTip on ttCopy
Top -
Visible -
Width -
XLabelExpression -
- UseWaitCursor
- Visible
Zorder -

The following table shows the Series Object Model comparison.

FlexChartField FlexChart
AltStyle AltStyle
Binding
BindingMode
BindingX
ChartType ChartType
DataMember
DataSource
DataSourceName
Hyperlink
Label
Name
Style Style
SymbolMarker SymbolMarker
SymbolSize SymbolSize
SymbolStyle SymbolStyle
Visibility Visibility
XExpression
Y1Expression
Y2Expression
Y3Expression
YExpression