By enabling one or both crosshairs on your Silverlight charts, your users can easily see the relationship between points on the graph, and their corresponding X- and/or Y-axis values with fine precision.

In this screenshot of a bar chart showing popular travel destinations for U.S. air passengers, the exact values of each bar might be challenging to quantify were it not for the presence of markers labeling the value of each bar in thousands of passengers (the label appearing along the X-axis). Use of markers makes data visualized in chart form just as precise as data that you might present in grid or tabular form, while losing nothing of the instant qualitative conclusions users can draw from the data being shown in a non-schematic manner.

In this screenshot, the two data series being compared are residential (landline) phone usage and cellular (mobile) phone usage. Each data series consists of data points for each year, and the trend shown is clearly in the favor of cellular phone usage overtaking residential phone usage.  The Silverlight chart control lets you create compelling comparisons between any number of data series like this, and while this example shows two data series each plotted as line charts -- you can also ascibe a different chart type to each data series.

Seamless integration with the xamWebZoombar™ control in the horizontal and vertical scroll bars of the Bubble chart seen here allow users to zoom-in or zoom-out of the chart by stretching the edges of the scroll track thumb pad. Your users can also pan the chart from side-to-side or up-and-down just like an ordinary scroll bar, allowing them to work with much larger chart areas than otherwise would be possible.

Infinite stylability in Expression Blend™ or when working under XAML allow you to present professionally polished charts. The many styling points exposed by the Silverlight chart control give you and your designers almost unlimited possibilities when it comes to customizing the appearance of your data visualization so that it can fit into an information dashboard or interactive business report.