Question

How do you display the values of each pie in a pie chart using ChartHelper? I am using MVC3/Razor syntax.

Trying to do something like this:

The image is from this tutorial for ChartHelper in MVC:

My code:

var bytes = new Chart(600, 300).AddSeries(
                    chartType: "pie",
                    legend: "Sales in Store per Payment Collected",
                    xValue: viewModel.SalesInStorePerPaymentCollected.XValues,
                    yValues: viewModel.SalesInStorePerPaymentCollected.YValues
                    )
                    .GetBytes("png");


            return File(bytes, "image/png");

Answer 1

I did it by using the System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting.Chart class.

Here is the code in my Controller:

public ActionResult Chart()
{
    Chart chart = new Chart();
    chart.ChartAreas.Add(new ChartArea());

    chart.Series.Add(new Series("Data"));
    chart.Series["Data"].ChartType = SeriesChartType.Pie;
    chart.Series["Data"]["PieLabelStyle"] = "Outside"; 
    chart.Series["Data"]["PieLineColor"] = "Black";
    chart.Series["Data"].Points.DataBindXY(
        data.Select(data => data.Name.ToString()).ToArray(), 
        data.Select(data => data.Count).ToArray());
    //Other chart formatting and data source omitted.

    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
    chart.SaveImage(ms, ChartImageFormat.Png);
    return File(ms.ToArray(), "image/png");
}

And the View:

<img alt="alternateText" src="@Url.Action("Chart")" />