How to use Visual Studio Charts to draw a 'Manhattan* Chart'?

Question

*This is a name I have seen used for the style of chart I'm after - not sure how 'official' this name is.

What I would like:

• Bar Chart
• X - Day of the Week
• Y - Number of items
• Z - Week Number, receding back into the chart.

I'm not sure that the Chart Control can do it, but I might be missing something in the many many properties and settings the control has.

Answer 1

After a hint from pnuts. i've dug in an read up some more on the Chart Control....

I've created a 3D 'Manhattan' style chart. There's the datasource selects data with columns such as DayName, NumberOfOrders and WeekNo.

The chart should have clustering turned off and you need to use a special databinding method.

Chart1.DataBindCrossTable(ds.GetYearsOrdersByDay, "WeekNo", "DayName", "NumberOfOrders", null);

This creates several series based on the dataset and the parameters.

Basic markup

<asp:Chart ID="Chart1" runat="server" Height="600px" Width="700px">
    <Series>

    </Series>
    <ChartAreas>
        <asp:ChartArea Name="ChartArea1">
            <Area3DStyle Enable3D="True" IsClustered="false"  Perspective="20"/>     
            <AxisY Interval="100"></AxisY>
            <AxisX IntervalOffset ="1.0" Interval ="1.0" >
                <MajorGrid Enabled="true" Interval="1.0" IntervalOffset="0.5" />
            </AxisX>
        </asp:ChartArea> 

    </ChartAreas>
    <Legends>
        <asp:Legend Name="Legend1" Title="Number of Orders">
        </asp:Legend>
    </Legends>
</asp:Chart>