How to make 2 different colors for positive values and negative values in MSChart

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I’m using column chart (Bar chart) of MSChart in my vb.net project. I need to do following 2 things.

1. I need to customize y-axis labels. I want to add string "R+" before y axis labels
2. I need to change the color of the bar if it is negative.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Ata

Posted 19-Dec-11 23:59pm

Md Athaulla

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-12-20T00:03:00

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Changing the color of the bar isn't generally done. If the color red represents a data point, it should be red whether it's positive or negative. Otherwise the user won't be able to find it, and it changes meaning of the data.

Posted 20-Dec-11 0:03am

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Md Athaulla 20-Dec-11 6:38am

Yes your right but the user wants it in that way. right now all the bars are in the same color. he wants negative values with red bar and positive with blue bars. please click the below link for the snapshot

http://tinypic.com/r/nejgpe/5

#realJSOP 22-Dec-11 6:19am

If that's the case, see if the column chart has a property for setting the bar colors based on whether they're positive or negative. If you can;'t do that, then see if you can set individual bar colors in a given series (but I doubt you can). Failing all of that, create separate series that contains the negative values.