Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC Range Navigator Control

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This section briefly explains about how to include ASP.NET MVC Range Navigator control in your ASP.NET MVC application using Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

System requirements for ASP.NET MVC controls

Create ASP.NET MVC application with HTML helper

Install ASP.NET MVC package in the application

To add ASP.NET MVC 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.MVC5 and then install it.

Package Manager
Install-Package Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 -Version 28.1.33

NOTE

Syncfusion^® ASP.NET MVC 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.MVC5 NuGet package has dependencies, Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization and Syncfusion.Licensing for validating Syncfusion^® license key.

Add namespace

Add Syncfusion.EJ2 namespace reference in Web.config under Views folder.

<namespaces>
    <add namespace="Syncfusion.EJ2"/>
</namespaces>

Add script resources

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

~/_Layout.cshtml
<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC 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 MVC application.

Register Syncfusion^® script manager

Also, register the script manager EJS().ScriptManager() at the end of <body> in the ~/Pages/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows.

~/_Layout.cshtml
<body>
...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Script Manager -->
    @Html.EJS().ScriptManager()
</body>

Add ASP.NET MVC Range Navigator control

Now, add the Syncfusion^® ASP.NET MVC Range Navigator control in ~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml page.

CSHTML

@(Html.EJS().RangeNavigator("container").Render())

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

ASP.NET MVC Range Navigator Control

Populate range navigator with data

Now, we are going to provide data to the range navigator. Add a series object to the range navigator by using series property. Now map the field names x and y in the JSON data to the xName and yName properties of the series, then set the JSON data to dataSource property. Since the JSON contains Datetime data, set the valueType as DateTime. By default, the axis valueType is Numeric.

CSHTML
HomeController.cs
@model List<RangeNavigatorSample.Controllers.data>

@(Html.EJS().RangeNavigator("container")
		.ValueType(Syncfusion.EJ2.Charts.RangeValueType.DateTime)
		.LabelFormat("MMM-yy")
	.Series(sr =>
	{
		sr.XName("x").YName("y").DataSource(Model).Add();
	}).Render()
	)
public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        List<data> dataSource = new List<data>
        {
            new data { x = new DateTime(2005, 01, 01), y = 21, y1 = 28 },
            new data { x = new DateTime(2006, 01, 01), y = 24, y1 = 44 },
            new data { x = new DateTime(2007, 01, 01), y = 36, y1 = 48 },
            new data { x = new DateTime(2008, 01, 01), y = 38, y1 = 50 },
            new data { x = new DateTime(2009, 01, 01), y = 54, y1 = 66 },
            new data { x = new DateTime(2010, 01, 01), y = 57, y1 = 78 },
            new data { x = new DateTime(2011, 01, 01), y = 70, y1 = 84 },
        };
        return View(dataSource);
    }
}
public class data
{
    public DateTime x;
    public double y;
    public double y1;
}