GradientVariant Property

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
Public Property GradientVariant As GradientVariant

'Usage
 
Dim instance As FillEffect
Dim value As GradientVariant
 
instance.GradientVariant = value
 
value = instance.GradientVariant

public GradientVariant GradientVariant {get; set;}

Each gradient style has different sub variants. For example the horizontal gradient style has four variants that indicate how the control will merge the Color1 and Color2 properties. The possible values are Variant1, Variant2, Variant3, Variant4. The default value for this property is Variant1. All gradient styles support four variants except the FromCenter one which supports only two.

The following example applies a black and white diagonal gradient of the right chart wall.

Visual Basic

Dim chart As Chart = CType((ChartControl.Charts(0)), Chart)
Dim fillEffect As FillEffectBase =  chart.Wall(ChartWallType.Back).FillEffect 
fillEffect.Type = FillEffectType.Gradient
fillEffect.GradientStyle = GradientStyle.DiagonalDown
fillEffect.GradientVariant = GradientVariant.Variant1
fillEffect.BeginColor = Color.White
fillEffect.EndColor = Color.Black

C#

Chart chart = (Chart)(ChartControl.Charts[0]);
FillEffectBase fillEffect = chart.Wall(ChartWallType.Back).FillEffect;
fillEffect.Type = FillEffectType.Gradient;
fillEffect.GradientStyle = GradientStyle.DiagonalDown;
fillEffect.GradientVariant = GradientVariant.Variant1;
fillEffect.BeginColor = Color.White;
fillEffect.EndColor = Color.Black;

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

FillEffect Class
FillEffect Members