setup ColumnChart from WinRTXamlToolkit

Question

I'm trying to setup Column Chart from WinRTXamlToolkit.
Let me ask:

Is there any guide for charts from this lib? Or which way you found the easiest to learn using charts?

How can I put labels near axises? In points like on below image:

How to move labels above chart (like on below image)?

Thank you in advance!

Tylko przez wnikliwą analizę kodu źródłowego :( – Filip Skakun Aug 13 '20 at 22:31 — Filip Skakun, Aug 13 '20 at 22:31
@FilipSkakun dzieki ;] I put my "findings" in self-answer. – Grzegorz Dev Aug 15 '20 at 00:21 — Grzegorz Dev, Aug 15 '20 at 00:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '20 at 00:19

I found "workarounds" (far away from perfection but works).

Below WinRTXamlToolkit = WXT

Fastest way (if you don't know WXT) is:

hide WXT elements
- title (just dont set it)
- legend (see Hide legend of WPF Toolkit chart with more than one data series)
create your own equivalent of above elements using native XAML (TextBlocks ..) and place it wherever you like

To get column colors for legend do

MethodInXamlBackingObject() {
   var paletteOfFirstColumn = ColumnChart.Palette[0];
   var columnFirstBrush = paletteOfFirstColumn["Background"];
}

BTW. tips where from to learn WXT:

analyse sources of samples in WXT - these are very detailed
analyse WXT behaviour with tool "WXT Debug Console" (included in demo app) - very powerfull
read arts about WXT and WPF Toolkit (from which WXT is a fork)

Actually, it's ported from Silverlight toolkit, but that likely originated in WPF Toolkit first. — Filip Skakun, Aug 15 '20 at 04:33
BTW, I find when people ask about customizing this old heap of code that they would usually achieve their results faster by writing their own charts from scratch like this one: https://github.com/xyzzer/Win2DChartSample — Filip Skakun, Aug 15 '20 at 04:36

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