Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge Control

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This section briefly explains about how to include ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge 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

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. Alternatively, you can utilize the following package manager command to achieve the same.

Package Manager
Install-Package Syncfusion.EJ2.AspNet.Core -Version 28.1.33

NOTE

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

~/_ViewImports.cshtml
@addTagHelper *, Syncfusion.EJ2

Add script resources

Here, script is referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

~/_Layout.cshtml
<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET Core controls scripts -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/28.1.33/dist/ej2.min.js"></script>
</head>

NOTE

Checkout the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your ASP.NET Core application.

Register Syncfusion^® Script Manager

Also, register the script manager <ejs-script> at the end of <body> in the ASP.NET Core application as follows.

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

Add ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge control

Now, add the Syncfusion^® ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge tag helper in ~/Pages/Index.cshtml page.

CSHTML
<ejs-lineargauge id="linear">
</ejs-lineargauge>

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

ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge Control

Add Gauge Title

The title for the Linear Gauge can be rendered using the title property in the ejs-lineargauge tag.

CSHTML
<ejs-lineargauge id="linear" title="Temperature Measure">
</ejs-lineargauge>

ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge with Title

Axis

The start value and end value of the Linear Gauge axis can be added using the minimum and maximum property in the e-axis tag.

Refer below code snippet to add the axis range to Linear Gauge.

CSHTML
<ejs-lineargauge id="linear" orientation="Horizontal">
    <e-lineargauge-axes>
        <e-lineargauge-axis minimum="0" maximum="200">
        </e-lineargauge-axis>
    </e-lineargauge-axes>
</ejs-lineargauge>

ASP.NET Core Linear Gauge with Axis

NOTE

View Sample in GitHub.