LoadState(String,Chart,Boolean) Method

Set the chart object from the specified xml file.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Sub LoadState( _
   ByVal xmlDataOrFileName As String, _
   ByVal chartObject As Chart, _
   ByVal clear As Boolean _
)

'Usage
 
Dim instance As Chart
Dim xmlDataOrFileName As String
Dim chartObject As Chart
Dim clear As Boolean
 
instance.LoadState(xmlDataOrFileName, chartObject, clear)

public void LoadState( 
   string xmlDataOrFileName,
   Chart chartObject,
   bool clear
)

Parameters

xmlDataOrFileName: Path of XML file or XML data to load.
chartObject: The chart object that be loaded with XML data.
clear: Determine whether clear the chart object before loading the data.

Remarks

This first parameter takes either a raw xml string or an xml file name. For an xml file name it takes either an absolute path 'c:/inetpub/wwwroot/app/chart.xml', a physical UNC path ('\\myUncPath\cahrt.xml'), a relative path ('temp/chart.xml',) or when started with '/' a relative path from c:/inetpub/wwwroot/ ('/app/chart.xml), or only a file name 'chart.xml' in the temp directory.

Example

This examples demonstrate different ways of accessing the same xml file in temp directory: 'c:/inetpub/wwwroot/app/temp/Chart.xml' when the applications is located in ...wwwroot/app. when started with '/' the folder resets to c:/inetpub/wwwroot/.

Chart.LoadState("c://inetpub/wwwroot/app/temp/chart.xml",chartObject,false);
Chart.LoadState("/app/temp/chart.xml",chartObject,false);
Chart.LoadState("chart.xml",chartObject,false);

Visual Basic

Chart.LoadState("c://inetpub/wwwroot/app/temp/chart.xml",chartObject,false)
Chart.LoadState("/app/temp/chart.xml",chartObject,false)
Chart.LoadState("chart.xml",chartObject,false)

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

Chart Class
Chart Members
Overload List