Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart Control

19 Dec 20226 minutes to read

This section briefly explains about how to include ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart control in your ASP.NET Core application using Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

System requirements for ASP.NET Core controls

Create ASP.NET Core web application with Razor pages

Install ASP.NET Core package in the application

Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic to learn more about installing NuGet packages in various OS environments. To add ASP.NET Core controls in the application, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search for Syncfusion.EJ2.AspNet.Core and then install it.

NOTE

The Syncfusion.EJ2.AspNet.Core NuGet package has dependencies, Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization and Syncfusion.Licensing for validating Syncfusion license key.

Add Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Tag Helper

Open ~/Views/_ViewImports.cshtml file and import the Syncfusion.EJ2 TagHelper.

@addTagHelper *, Syncfusion.EJ2

Add style sheet

Checkout the Themes topic to learn different ways (CDN, NPM package, and CRG) to refer styles in ASP.NET Core application, and to have the expected appearance for Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls. Here, the theme is referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls styles -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/fluent.css" />
</head>

Add script reference

In this getting started walk-through, the required scripts are referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls scripts -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js"></script>
</head>

Register Syncfusion Script Manager

Open ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml page and register the script manager at the end of `<body>` in the ASP.NET Core application as follows.

<body>
...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Script Manager -->
    <ejs-scripts></ejs-scripts>
</body>

Add ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart control

Now, add the Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart tag helper in ~/Pages/Index.cshtml page.

<ejs-bulletchart id="container"></ejs-bulletchart>

Press Ctrl+F5 (Windows) or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to run the app. Then, the Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart control will be rendered in the default web browser.

ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart Control

Bullet Chart With Data

Now, assign the data to dataSource property. value and target values should be mapped with valueField and targetField respectively.

@{
    ...
    List<DefaultBulletData> bulletData = new List<DefaultBulletData>
    {
        new DefaultBulletData { value = 270, target = 250}
    };
}

<ejs-bulletchart id="bulletgraph" minimum="0" maximum="300" interval="50" valueField="value" targetField="target" dataSource="bulletData">
</ejs-bulletchart>
public class DefaultBulletData
{
    public double value;
    public double target;
}

Add Bullet Chart Title

You can add a title using title property to the bullet chart to provide quick information to the user about the data plotted in the bullet chart.

@{
    ...
    List<DefaultBulletData> bulletData = new List<DefaultBulletData>
    {
        new DefaultBulletData { value = 270, target = 250}
    };
}

<ejs-bulletchart id="bulletgraph" title="Revenue" minimum="0" maximum="300" interval="50" valueField="value" targetField="target" dataSource="bulletData">
</ejs-bulletchart>
public class DefaultBulletData
{
    public double value;
    public double target;
}

ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart with Title

Ranges

You can add a range using e-bullet-range of the e-bullet-range-collection.

@{
    ...
    List<DefaultBulletData> bulletData = new List<DefaultBulletData>
    {
        new DefaultBulletData { value = 270, target = 250}
    };
}

<ejs-bulletchart id="bulletgraph" minimum="0" maximum="300" interval="50" valueField="value" targetField="target" dataSource="bulletData">
        <e-bullet-range-collection>
            <e-bullet-range end="150"></e-bullet-range>
            <e-bullet-range end="250"></e-bullet-range>
            <e-bullet-range end="300"></e-bullet-range>
        </e-bullet-range-collection>
</ejs-bulletchart>
public class DefaultBulletData
{
    public double value;
    public double target;
}

Tooltip

You can use tooltip for the bullet chart by setting the enable property to true in e-bulletchart-tooltipsettings.

@{
    ...
    List<DefaultBulletData> bulletData = new List<DefaultBulletData>
    {
        new DefaultBulletData { value = 270, target = 250}
    };
}

<ejs-bulletchart id="bulletgraph" minimum="0" maximum="300" interval="50" valueField="value" targetField="target" dataSource="bulletData">
        <e-bulletchart-tooltipsettings enable="true"></e-bulletchart-tooltipsettings>
        <e-bullet-range-collection>
            <e-bullet-range end="150"></e-bullet-range>
            <e-bullet-range end="250"></e-bullet-range>
            <e-bullet-range end="300"></e-bullet-range>
        </e-bullet-range-collection>
</ejs-bulletchart>
public class DefaultBulletData
{
    public double value;
    public double target;
}

ASP.NET Core Bullet Chart with Tooltip

NOTE

View Sample in GitHub.

See also