I have a bar chart that I am creating and I want the first bar to be one specific color and the second one to be another specific color. How do I do this? I like the 'berry' palette and I specify that in my chartarea now and it's great, but one of the colors is too dark. So if I could just do something similar and pick my own colors, I'd be set.

Thanks!

You can select predifined palette on the series:

Chart.Series[0].Palette = ChartColorPalette.Berry;

You can also define custom palette if you want using Chart.PaletteCustomColors... but the simpliest apptoach is to set individual data point Color property:

Chart.Series[0].Points[0].Color = Color.Red;
Chart.Series[0].Points[1].Color = Color.Green;
...

Alex.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/alexgor

You can select predifined palette on the series:

Chart.Series[0].Palette = ChartColorPalette.Berry;

You can also define custom palette if you want using Chart.PaletteCustomColors... but the simpliest apptoach is to set individual data point Color property:

Chart.Series[0].Points[0].Color = Color.Red;
Chart.Series[0].Points[1].Color = Color.Green;
...

Alex.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/alexgor

Thank you.

Ok, so I'm new to this, a couple of questions. I think I like the idea of setting up a custom palette, but I can't find code to do this and don't understand how to do it myself in vb.

for the code above, when do you execute it? When I do it at page load, I get a subscript out of bounds error.

This is apparently what I need to do, but again, I don't know when...is there an event in building the chart where I can execute this? If I execute on page load, I get

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

Thanks for your assistance.

For beginners I recommend to check out Chart Sample Environment here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart

Alex.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/alexgor

got it, thanks, it was in the 'onDataBound' code. It works now.