2009-04-14 1.0 Release Candidate is Here

We have released a Release Candidate of amCharts for WPF bundle. This release includes a number of minor new new features but mainly focuses on fixing bugs and improving stability. See complete change log below for details.

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Change log for version 1.0.0.0 Release Candidate

• FEATURE ADDED: added Refresh method to ChartBase class (all charts) to forcing charts to redraw themselves. When Value of data item changes the method is called automatically.
• FEATURE ADDED: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): added SeriesText property to SerialDataItem which returns Text of associated SeriesItem.
• FEATURE ADDED: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): added PercentValue property to SerialDataItem class. The property returns percentile value of the data item relative to other graphs at the same series point.
• FEATURE ADDED: all data items (slices, line points, column points): DataContext property is set to the actual object to which this data item is bound for future reference.
• FEATURE ADDED: PieChart: Data labels can be placed inside slices. Set LabelRadius or LabelRadiusPercent to a negative value to use this feature.
• FEATURE ADDED: added BalloonTemplate property to simplify balloon content customization.
• BUGFIX: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): exception was thrown when hovering over an empty chart
• BUGFIX: LineChart: Graph property wasn't set on LineDataPoint
• BUGFIX: ColumnChart: it wasn't possible to add graphs to column chart via collection editor in WPF designer
• BUGFIX: ColumnChart: exception was thrown when trying to animate a column without a Value
• BUGFIX: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): Exception was thrown in WPF designer regarding Guides collection of ValueAxis.
• BUGFIX: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): it wasn't possible to set StartSeriesID/EndSeriesID on CategoryGuide through collection editor in WPF designer
• BUGFIX: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): it wasn't possible to set ID/SeriesID through collection editor in WPF designer.
• BUGFIX: PieChart: WPF designer was throwing unexpected errors when pressing OK in Slices collection editor.
• BUGFIX: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): when graphs are added or removed from Graphs collection of the chart the chart is refreshed/redrawn.
• BUGFIX: SerialChart (line, column, etc.): when ValuesFrequency was set to a value higher than 1 values were skipped counting frequency from the last value (should've been from first)
• BUGFIX: sometimes graph titles in Legend were wrapped inappropriately for no specific reason.
• BUGFIX: ColumnChart: when MultiBinding was used for data labels, sequenced animation was performed incorrectly and labels were placed in the wrong positions.
• BUGFIX: Stacked Area Chart: filled area in stacked area graph was stretching down to the category axis. Should have ended at the previous graph's top,
• BUGFIX: PieChart, ColumnChart: exception was thrown when chart was included in a hidden control (like tab). Some events were fired and some not, causing the error.
• FIX: ColumnChart: data labels on columns were hit test visible "stealing" mouse events from column objects
• COSMETIC FIX: PieChart: format of the default percent value in pie chart balloons was changed from ".##" to "0.##"
• MARKUP: added ContentPropertyAttribute and DefaultPropertyAttribute on chart, graph and other classes so that graphs can be declared right inside chart tags in XAML, etc.

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