Data Presentation Basics
The Dashboard Viewer is used to present dashboards in Windows Forms applications. A wide range of dashboard items are used to display visual or textual information.
Dashboard Item | Image | Description |
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Chart | ![]() |
Displays data graphically using bars, lines, points, etc. |
Scatter Chart | ![]() |
Visualizes relationships between numeric variables. |
Grid | ![]() |
Presents data in tabular form. |
Pies | ![]() |
Displays a series of pies or donuts that represent the contribution of each value to the total. |
Cards | ![]() |
Displays a series of cards, each illustrating the difference between two values. |
Gauges | ![]() |
Visualizes data within a series of gauges. |
Pivot | ![]() |
Displays cross-tabular reports and allows you to analyze multi-dimensional data. |
Choropleth Map | ![]() |
Colorizes areas in proportion to the provided values. |
Geo Point Map | ![]() |
Displays callouts on the map using geographical coordinates. |
Bubble Map | ![]() |
Displays bubbles on the map using geographical coordinates. |
Pie Map | ![]() |
Places pies on the map using geographical coordinates. |
Range Filter | ![]() |
Allows you to apply filtering by dragging selection thumbs along the argument axis. |
Images | ![]() |
Displays images. |
Text Box | ![]() |
Displays rich text within a dashboard. |
Treemap | ![]() |
Visualizes data in nested rectangles. |
Combo Box | ![]() |
Allows you to select a value(s) from the drop-down list. |
List Box | ![]() |
Allows you to select a value(s) from the list. |
Tree View | ![]() |
Displays values in a hierarchical way and allows you to filter other dashboard items by selecting parent/child values. |
The Dashboard Viewer enables interaction between various dashboard items. These features include Master Filtering and Drill-Down.
You can inspect raw or aggregated data. See the Data Inspector topic for details.
To learn more about the dashboard layout, see the Dashboard Layout topic.