A selection of chart types rendered with GDI+ in ProEssentials.

Version 7.0 features rewritten plotting routines to take full advantage of GdiPlus anti-aliased graphics.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both Windows client-side and server-side development. It includes WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL and DLL interfaces for five components: Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar, and Pie Chart objects. GigaSoft ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio. NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET, Delphi, Builder and others, in a variety of interfaces best suited for your needs.

Updates in V7.0

Speed Improvements

• GdiPlus renders significantly faster. For current users, if not using GdiPlus, try it with v7 and set AntiAliasGraphics=True and AntiAliasText = True.
• Built-in automatic data reduction makes handling large data sets faster. Optimization for 2D, 3D, 2D contours, and Polar/Smith charts. Optimization is per plotting method.
• New RenderEngine = PERE_GDI_TURBO, its GDI rendering but much faster and optimized for 2D scatter plots with large data sets. Data reduction of 2D linear and bar type plots can achieve pixel accuracty.

Visual Improvements

• GdiPlus is now the primary target whereas with v6 and earlier we wanted to maintain WMF support. With v7 WMF support is no longer fully supported for all features. Developers may want to set the AllowWmfExport feature to False.
• All plotting routines were rewritten to take full advantage of GdiPlus anti-aliased graphics. Be sure to use AntiAliasGraphics and AntiAliasText set to True.
• Added gradient fill features for everything, at multiple levels: per plotting method, per subset, and per annotation.
• Added bevel and lighting effects on top of gradient effects. Bars, Areas, new SplineAreas, Rect and Polygon Graph Annotations, and TableAnnotations supported.
• Bar and Candlestick charts now have a new optional glass effect.
• Pie charts add new gradient and lighting effects as well as rewritten to render best for GdiPlus and anti-aliased graphics.
• Improved datapoint and marker point sizes allowing minimum and maximum range.
• Pego and Pesgo add grid banding and more subtle grid line coloring options. This is on by default, see GridBands, GridBandsAlpha, GridLineAlpha below. To show a chart in legacy form, set new features GridBold = True and GridBands = False.

Functional Improvements

• Pego, Pesgo, and Pepco now update immediately upon using scrollbars. Also added MouseDraggingX and MouseDraggingY features where the middle mouse button grabs zoomed charts.
• Pego and Pesgo now include a full-featured zoom-window that shows all data below a zoomed chart. Annotations and hot-spots are supported. The level of robustness allows elaborate charting based user interfaces. Added new per annotation type properties GraphAnnotationZoom, HorzLineAnnotationZoom, VertLineAnnotationZoom, and XAxisAnnotationZoom. Allowing annotations to be GRAPH_ONLY, GRAPH_AND_ZOOMWINDOW, or ZOOMWINDOW_ONLY. Related are AllowGraphAnnotHotSpot and per annotation GraphAnnotationHotSpot (and other annotations types) which were expanded to provide similar control of potential hot spot locations.
• Pego and Pesgo adds Spline Area and Spline Ribbon plotting methods.
• Pesgo adds the stacked type plotting methods.
• Basic Polar/Smith charts now support more than one zoom level.
• 3D charts can now have different sized axes. See GridAspectX GridAspectZ below
• GraphAnnotations add angled text, horizontal/vertical regions, and solid arrows. Example 015 adds angled text, example 101 shows a vertical region.

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft, Inc. was founded in 1993, and released its first version of ProEssentials charting components as static libraries for C++ developers in 1995. Later, Gigasoft added VBX components for VB3, VCL components for Delphi, ActiveX components for VB4 through VB6, and now offers WinForm/WebForm charting components for Visual Studio.NET. Gigasoft has always concentrated on charting and charting at a mission-critical level. Prioritizing stability, speed, and rendering intelligence. Not just a component provider, trusted by Fortune 500, Gigasoft regularly signs non-disclosure agreements, signs proprietary licenses, and provides custom programmed charting solutions to the world's leading companies. When you need more than a generic charting tool; or want more custom services from a component vendor; Gigasoft has been the quality choice for more than 12 years. All the time, establishing an exemplary track record and amazing customer satisfaction.

A selection of chart types rendered with GDI+ in ProEssentials.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both Windows client-side and server-side development. GigaSoft ProEssentials includeds WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL, and DLL interfaces for five components: Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar, and Pie Chart objects. GigaSoft ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio. NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET, Delphi, Builder, and others, in a variety of interfaces best suited for your needs.

Updates in v7.1

• Added Traditional Chinese as well as updated Simplified Chinese and Spanish resources
• DayLabelType now supports hiding day from this area
• Improved the Web example project PE7WebDemo
• Fixed a potential stability issue with drawing x axis when AutoScaleData = False and numbers are very large
• Improved filtering logic to better support NullDataGaps. If filtering and working with much data and many nulls, you may need to inject 20 or more nulls and set Filter2D to a slower setting to get consistent output in forcing gaps. Complex null gap effects with large quantities of data can be hard for the filtering logic to handle correctly
• Exporting Text/Data with charts with inverted axes was exporting text as negative values
• Improved grid numbers for x and y axes from showing -0 in some cases where grid line value was zero

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft, Inc. was founded in 1993, and released its first version of ProEssentials charting components as static libraries for C++ developers in 1995. Later, Gigasoft added VBX components for VB3, VCL components for Delphi, ActiveX components for VB4 through VB6, and now offers WinForm/WebForm charting components for Visual Studio.NET. Gigasoft has always concentrated on charting and charting at a mission-critical level. Prioritizing stability, speed, and rendering intelligence. Not just a component provider, trusted by Fortune 500, Gigasoft regularly signs non-disclosure agreements, signs proprietary licenses, and provides custom programmed charting solutions to the world's leading companies. When you need more than a generic charting tool; or want more custom services from a component vendor; Gigasoft has been the quality choice for more than 12 years. All the time, establishing an exemplary track record and amazing customer satisfaction.

A Chart created using ProEssentials.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both client-side and server-side development. It includes WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL and DLL interfaces for Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar and Pie Chart objects. ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio .NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET and Delphi, using a variety of interfaces.

Updates in v7.2

• Improved image details.
• Speed improvements.
• International resources.
• SVG exporting.

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft was founded in 1993, their charting products prioritize stability, speed and rendering intelligence. GigaSoft is trusted by several Fortune 500 companies and has exemplary track record for customer satisfaction.

Did You Know?

Did you know that you can also buy Microsoft Visual Studio along with an MSDN Subscription from us? Or that in Europe and Japan we also have all the Embarcadero products available to purchase, such as Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio!

Version 7.0 features rewritten plotting routines to take full advantage of GdiPlus anti-aliased graphics.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both Windows client-side and server-side development. It includes WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL and DLL interfaces for five components: Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar, and Pie Chart objects. GigaSoft ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio. NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET, Delphi, Builder and others, in a variety of interfaces best suited for your needs.

Updates in V7.0

Speed Improvements

• GdiPlus renders significantly faster. For current users, if not using GdiPlus, try it with v7 and set AntiAliasGraphics=True and AntiAliasText = True.
• Built-in automatic data reduction makes handling large data sets faster. Optimization for 2D, 3D, 2D contours, and Polar/Smith charts. Optimization is per plotting method.
• New RenderEngine = PERE_GDI_TURBO, its GDI rendering but much faster and optimized for 2D scatter plots with large data sets. Data reduction of 2D linear and bar type plots can achieve pixel accuracty.

Visual Improvements

• GdiPlus is now the primary target whereas with v6 and earlier we wanted to maintain WMF support. With v7 WMF support is no longer fully supported for all features. Developers may want to set the AllowWmfExport feature to False.
• All plotting routines were rewritten to take full advantage of GdiPlus anti-aliased graphics. Be sure to use AntiAliasGraphics and AntiAliasText set to True.
• Added gradient fill features for everything, at multiple levels: per plotting method, per subset, and per annotation.
• Added bevel and lighting effects on top of gradient effects. Bars, Areas, new SplineAreas, Rect and Polygon Graph Annotations, and TableAnnotations supported.
• Bar and Candlestick charts now have a new optional glass effect.
• Pie charts add new gradient and lighting effects as well as rewritten to render best for GdiPlus and anti-aliased graphics.
• Improved datapoint and marker point sizes allowing minimum and maximum range.
• Pego and Pesgo add grid banding and more subtle grid line coloring options. This is on by default, see GridBands, GridBandsAlpha, GridLineAlpha below. To show a chart in legacy form, set new features GridBold = True and GridBands = False.

Functional Improvements

• Pego, Pesgo, and Pepco now update immediately upon using scrollbars. Also added MouseDraggingX and MouseDraggingY features where the middle mouse button grabs zoomed charts.
• Pego and Pesgo now include a full-featured zoom-window that shows all data below a zoomed chart. Annotations and hot-spots are supported. The level of robustness allows elaborate charting based user interfaces. Added new per annotation type properties GraphAnnotationZoom, HorzLineAnnotationZoom, VertLineAnnotationZoom, and XAxisAnnotationZoom. Allowing annotations to be GRAPH_ONLY, GRAPH_AND_ZOOMWINDOW, or ZOOMWINDOW_ONLY. Related are AllowGraphAnnotHotSpot and per annotation GraphAnnotationHotSpot (and other annotations types) which were expanded to provide similar control of potential hot spot locations.
• Pego and Pesgo adds Spline Area and Spline Ribbon plotting methods.
• Pesgo adds the stacked type plotting methods.
• Basic Polar/Smith charts now support more than one zoom level.
• 3D charts can now have different sized axes. See GridAspectX GridAspectZ below
• GraphAnnotations add angled text, horizontal/vertical regions, and solid arrows. Example 015 adds angled text, example 101 shows a vertical region.

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft, Inc. was founded in 1993, and released its first version of ProEssentials charting components as static libraries for C++ developers in 1995. Later, Gigasoft added VBX components for VB3, VCL components for Delphi, ActiveX components for VB4 through VB6, and now offers WinForm/WebForm charting components for Visual Studio.NET. Gigasoft has always concentrated on charting and charting at a mission-critical level. Prioritizing stability, speed, and rendering intelligence. Not just a component provider, trusted by Fortune 500, Gigasoft regularly signs non-disclosure agreements, signs proprietary licenses, and provides custom programmed charting solutions to the world's leading companies. When you need more than a generic charting tool; or want more custom services from a component vendor; Gigasoft has been the quality choice for more than 12 years. All the time, establishing an exemplary track record and amazing customer satisfaction.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both Windows client-side and server-side development. GigaSoft ProEssentials includeds WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL, and DLL interfaces for five components: Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar, and Pie Chart objects. GigaSoft ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio. NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET, Delphi, Builder, and others, in a variety of interfaces best suited for your needs.

Updates in v7.1

• Added Traditional Chinese as well as updated Simplified Chinese and Spanish resources
• DayLabelType now supports hiding day from this area
• Improved the Web example project PE7WebDemo
• Fixed a potential stability issue with drawing x axis when AutoScaleData = False and numbers are very large
• Improved filtering logic to better support NullDataGaps. If filtering and working with much data and many nulls, you may need to inject 20 or more nulls and set Filter2D to a slower setting to get consistent output in forcing gaps. Complex null gap effects with large quantities of data can be hard for the filtering logic to handle correctly
• Exporting Text/Data with charts with inverted axes was exporting text as negative values
• Improved grid numbers for x and y axes from showing -0 in some cases where grid line value was zero

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft, Inc. was founded in 1993, and released its first version of ProEssentials charting components as static libraries for C++ developers in 1995. Later, Gigasoft added VBX components for VB3, VCL components for Delphi, ActiveX components for VB4 through VB6, and now offers WinForm/WebForm charting components for Visual Studio.NET. Gigasoft has always concentrated on charting and charting at a mission-critical level. Prioritizing stability, speed, and rendering intelligence. Not just a component provider, trusted by Fortune 500, Gigasoft regularly signs non-disclosure agreements, signs proprietary licenses, and provides custom programmed charting solutions to the world's leading companies. When you need more than a generic charting tool; or want more custom services from a component vendor; Gigasoft has been the quality choice for more than 12 years. All the time, establishing an exemplary track record and amazing customer satisfaction.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both client-side and server-side development. It includes WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL and DLL interfaces for Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar and Pie Chart objects. ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio .NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET and Delphi, using a variety of interfaces.

Updates in v7.2

• Improved image details.
• Speed improvements.
• International resources.
• SVG exporting.

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft was founded in 1993, their charting products prioritize stability, speed and rendering intelligence. GigaSoft is trusted by several Fortune 500 companies and has exemplary track record for customer satisfaction.

New version adds WPF support and includes new Direct2D and Direct3D rendering engine.

ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both client-side and server-side development. It includes WPF, WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL and DLL interfaces for Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar and Pie Chart objects. ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio .NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET and Delphi, using a variety of interfaces.

Updates in V8

• WPF support.
• Direct2D and Direct3D rendering engine that dramatically improves speed and quality.
• Improved zooming and panning for 2D and 3D.
• Delphi VCLs improved with support for XE5 and XE6.

About GigaSoft

GigaSoft was founded in 1993, their charting products prioritize stability, speed and rendering intelligence. GigaSoft is trusted by several Fortune 500 companies and has exemplary track record for customer satisfaction.

Adds support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.

Features

• Adds support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
• Improved the export dialog for the common scenario where both AllowWmfExport and AllowEmfExport are false, the bitmap export type radio buttons Bmp, Jpeg, Png shift to the left to align with group border.
• New Winform C# and VB.NET example projects using tableLayoutPanel.

Fixes

• Fixed a flickering issue for Pe3do controls, while AutoRotation = True, single clicking vertical scrollbar caused a flickering.
• Fixed an issue with the .NET controls customization dialog where bottom OK Cancel buttons were too close to border.

Graph and Scientific Graph can now zoom a background image with the data.

Features

Speed Improvements

• 3D rendering supports Direct3D in plotting, annotations, hot-spots, and items uniquely offered via the DirectX domain.
• Support for double precision data and Direct3D double precision shaders. This allows DateTimeMode to show data from years to seconds within Direct3D.

Interface Improvements

• 64-bit OCX/ActiveX controls were added and both 32- and 64-bit OCXs were enhanced to support containers such as Access, Excel, or those using VB6.
• Embarcadero Delphi and Builder C++ VCL interfaces were rewritten to best support both 32- and 64-bit platforms.

Functional Improvements

• Graph and Scientific Graph can now zoom a background image with the data.
• 2D and 3D Contour improvements:
  • 2D contours have been re-written and implemented with Direct3D. This greatly improves the speed and quality.
  • Translucency and zoomable background images are now supported.
  • Improved null data handling for contour charts in 2D and 3D.
  • Improved legend construction and labeling.
  • Improvements allowing full control defining the color-to-data value relationship.
  • Moving the mouse over the 2D contour now allows for the developer and/or user to be accurately prompted with the interpolated 3rd dimension data value.
  • Direct3D RenderEngine adds support for top and bottom 2D contours and overlayed wire frames.
  • The properties used to control color separation have also been rewritten and improved.

New ToolTip and Floating Text CursorPromptLocation settings

• Version 9 adds new ToolTip features allowing for data coordinate prompting and custom prompting near the mouse's cursor.
• Supports a bounded box floating tool tip.
• Supports a borderless floating text tool tip when CursorPromptLocation is set to PECPL_TRACKING_TEXT 3

General Charting Improvements

• Version 9 adds a new function to return both Subset and Point index closest to nX and nY pixel location.
• .NET interfaces, use PeFunction.SearchSubsetPointIndex, This feature allows for data hot spot functionality without the overhead of hit testing normally used with AllowDataHotSpots.
• New function that returns the closest Point index based on the search criteria of the XData value,
• Realtime implementations that revolve the subset data. One common scenario for this feature is realtime 3D waterfall charts where a new subset represents a new slice of the waterfall.
• Now supports point plotting methods. Symbols are limited to diamond, square, triangles or simple types.
• Support for creating custom axes in Direct3D.

Easier multi axes configuration, data reduction and sharing features, plus new Direct3D graph annotations.

Features

• 3D rendering improved support for Direct3D in areas of plotting methods, annotations, hot-spots, and items uniquely offered via the DirectX domain. Version 9.5 includes Direct3D graph annotations and thick lines and tubes for annotations and subsets.
• Added features to help with multi threading and reducing and sharing data.
• 2D rendering improved support for Direct3D in providing new plotting methods, hot-spots, and annotations.
• Added improved 3D text dodging and quick and easy ways to show/hide annotation text and size annotation text.
• Added new 3D viewing mode that can be animated to fly down and through your data. Or simply focus on a point or data location and rotate and zoom with respect to this new focal point.
• WinForm, WPF, Asp.Net interfaces continually improved and evolved.
• 64 bit OCX/ActiveX controls were added and both 32 and 64 bit OCXs are continually enhanced to support containers such as Access, Excel, or even those still using VB6.
• Embarcadero's Delphi and Builder C++ VCL interfaces needed rewriting in XE flavor to best support both 32 and 64 bit platforms in both Delphi and Builder.

Adds MouseWheelFunction option that allows the mouse wheel to only zoom the vertical axis.

Features

• Added support for RenderEngine = Direct3D, Pego and Pesgo controls, 2D Bar, BarStacked, BarStackedPercent, and Area plotting methods.
• Added MouseWheelFunction option for Vertical Zoom Only, allowing mouse wheel to only zoom the vertical axis, expanding the HorzAndVertical and Horizontal options.
• Added property NullDataGapsArea. Set to True to enable the Pego Pesgo Area plotting methods to support NullDataGaps, forming breaks or gaps in the area plot upon null data.
• Added properties DeskBmpOpacity, GraphBmpOpacity, TableBmpOpacity, and ZoomWindowBmpOpacity. Now respective background gradients can be combined with background bitmaps and the bitmaps support partial opacity.
• Added support for MouseWheelZoomEvents = True to also fire ZoomIn event when dragging left or right edge of zoom box in Zoomwindow.

Fixes

• Fixed RenderEngine = Direct3D export dpi feature which was not honoring ExportImageDpi and when ExportImageDpi is 0, it now defaults to 96 to match Non Direct3D exports (old Direct3D default was 72).
• Fixed Direct3D support for GraphBmpMinX GraphBmpMaxX GraphBmpMinY GraphBmpMaxY settings when using GraphBmpStyle = Zoomable and the image size was smaller than viewport.
• Fixed Direct3D DeskGradientStart and DeskGradientEnd colors which had the red and blue components reversed.
• Fixed Direct3D issue with ShowWireFrame = True combined with surface plotting methods and large surfaces.

Adds support for table annotations in Direct3D charts.

Features

• Added support for table annotations in Direct3D Pe3do charts. All locations are supported including moveable and pixel located.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue when data was located at same pixel as lower or upper edge of axis a hot spot region was not being generated.
• Fixed an issue with Pe3do Direct3D rendering when using ImageAdjustLeft, ImageAdjustRight, and showing/hiding contour legends changed the visual width-to-height aspect slightly so the image was not exactly square. Now the image is exactly square when using such features.
• Fixed an issue with Pe3do Direct3D printing where an interim state of chart was flashed to screen while printing.
• Fixed an issue with Pe3do Direct3D printing where axis labels had a glitch in drop shadow effect when printing and text shadows were enabled.
• Fixed an issue with ModelessAutoClose setting.
• Fixed issue with RenderEngine = Direct3D, ViewingStyle set to Monochrome, and BorderType set to Shadow, it now hides shadows to be consistent with other Direct3D monochrome bordertypes.
• Fixed issue with WPF interfaces, changing the quick Color/Monochrome setting within the print dialog was not updating the currently viewed chart as the other interfaces, Winform, DLL, ActiveX, VCL behave.

Adds support for tooltips and cursor prompt tracking in Polar control.

Features

• Added support for tooltips and cursor prompt tracking in Polar control.

Improves axis grid construction for very small ranges of data.

Features

• Improved Pego and Pesgo axis grid construction for very small ranges of data.
• Improved Pego and Pesgo data reduction filtering logic to better handle non-linear distributions of data.
• Removed embedded Jpeglib bits from the DLL.

Adds new Quick Draw Tooling/Annotation feature.

Features

• Added support for Pe3do 3D Log scales in X Y Z for all plotting methods, annotations, and features, and Direct3D Pesgo 2D Log.
• Added new Pe3do property: GridBandsPatching.
• Added new Quick Draw Tooling/Annotation feature. This feature allows for a fully customized annotation layer to be constructed and displayed and hidden without overhead of reconstructing the underlying image.
• New colored Cursor and line styled Cursor are also available as part of the new quick drawing feature.
• The WPF interfaces have been improved to use the new colored and styled cursors by default.

Adds .NET 5/.NET Core WinForms and WPF interfaces for Windows Desktop development.

Features

• This release adds Microsoft .NET 5/.NET Core WinForms and WPF interfaces for Microsoft Windows Desktop development.
• Added new Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 example projects targeting .NET 5.
• The WPF interfaces have been improved to automatically call Invalidate at end of _Loaded event.
• The WPF interfaces now include a new read only property: PersistenceDataExists.

Improves PersistenceEnabled WPF interface property to work with Dock Managers.

Features

• Improved PersistenceEnabled WPF interface property to work with Dock Managers.

Adds support for hollow/line-topography symbols such as hollow-square, hollow-triangle, cross, plus and dash.

Features

• Added support for Pesgo RenderEngine=Direct3D and hollow/line-topography symbols such as hollow-square, hollow-triangle, cross, plus and dash.
• Added support for Pe3do Small, Medium and Large Arrow/Vector graph annotation types. This supports the start of arrows with any width line or tube followed by a small, medium or large arrow head.
• Added support for Pe3do hot spots for MainTitle, SubTitle, MultiSubTitle, MultiBottomTitle, SubsetLabels (scatter legend and 3dbar zaxis), PointLabels (3dbar xaxis) and X,Y,Z Axis Grid Numbers.
• Added support for Pe3do hotspots for text associated with XAxisLineAnnotations, YAxisLineAnnotations and ZAxisLineAnnotations.

Adds support for inverted log scales.

Features

• Added support for inverted log scales.
• MainTitle and SubTitle now shrink to fit.

Improves chart axis index features.

Features

• Improved 'PEconvpixeltograph' when last argument 'ViceVersa' is TRUE (finding pixel locations based off data units). The option to pass in the actual axis index as originally defined by MultiAxeSubsets has been added. It is recommended to use this option for retrieving pixel locations from data units in a chart that uses multi axes.
• Improved 'PEsearchsubsetpointindex' to store recent actual axis index and current visible axis index that contain a subset and point index closest to pixel coordinates. Developers can now easily learn the axis index that the closest subset/point indices belong to.