I know that in many of the sample chart I see in the demos as well as the documentation the chart has a drop shadow and looks really nice, however even with follow a complete example in the documentation my charts look really flat and pretty ugly. Would someone please explain how to render a nice looking chart.
thanks
the drop shadow in that image is just an effect our documentation team puts on most of the pictures in our docs. see another example of this effect: http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.1/CLR2.0/html/Web_WebCombo_Binding_WebCombo_to_Data_Using_LINQ_to_SQL.html
sorry if that's a bit confusing, but our intent was not to deceive.
so although the chart is capable of displaying drop shadows within its bounds, the drop shadow effect for the entire image is not a feature of the chart. you can request a feature here: http://devcenter.infragistics.com/protected/requestfeature.aspx
for the time being, if you want to do something like this, you can wrap the chart in a div and set a background image for the div to simulate a shadow. one such technique is described here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssdropshadows/
I believe when you reply there is an options tab that lets you add an attachment. You can alternatively just paste the code you use to render your chart.
how can I send you an image of how my chart is rendering?
oh it might help for you to know that I am not using a control on a from the control is being created dynamically at run time and then being rendered to an HTMLWriter.
thanks that changed the look of the bars on the chart, but did not get me the shadow I see behind the graph. Is there a way to get that shadow?