How do you set the width of the legend of a Microsoft .Net chart control?

Question

The legend currently auto-sizes according to the max width of the labels it contains, which is throwing my layout. I need to set a width or min-width. Here is my legend creation method:

public Legend CreateLegend()
{
   var legend = new Legend();
   legend.Enabled = true;
   legend.Font = new Font("Arial", 11F);
   legend.ForeColor = Color.FromArgb(102, 102, 102);

   return legend;
}

It seems like anything I do which accesses the Position object for the legend (defines X an Y coords, width and height) makes the legend disappear completely.

So legend.Position.Width = 5 would make it disappear...

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '13 at 06:59

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Okay, turns out that if you do not define all four properties of the Position object, it sets them to zero...so height was zero...so it disappeared. Awesome.

answered Feb 22 '13 at 06:59

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Can you guide me how to increase the legend marker width. – S.I.J Dec 23 '16 at 11:16

How do you set the width of the legend of a Microsoft .Net chart control?

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