Project activities in March 2026

Create a console project, add the ChartForgeX package, and replace Program.cs with this source. Run it to write SVG, PNG and HTML with the default system fonts.

For the same typography as the gallery, download the gallery-font recipe and copy the gallery’s fonts directory beside your program.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using ChartForgeX.Core;
using ChartForgeX.Primitives;
using ChartForgeX.Rendering;
using ChartForgeX.Themes;
using ChartForgeX.Topology;
using ChartForgeX.Typography;
using ChartForgeX.VisualArtifacts;
using ChartForgeX.VisualBlocks;

var mode = VisualThemeMode.Light;
var theme = VisualTheme.Graphite();
var model = TimelineRecipe.Create("compact", mode);
var context = new VisualRenderContext(
    new VisualLayoutOptions(new VisualSize(360, 360)), theme, mode,
    new VisualFrame("Project activities in March 2026", "The same data in a compact view", showLegend: null, showSurface: false));
var prepared = model.Prepare(context);
File.WriteAllText("visual.svg", prepared.ToSvg());
File.WriteAllBytes("visual.png", prepared.ToPng());
File.WriteAllText("visual.html", prepared.ToArtifact("example", VisualArtifactKind.Chart).ToHtmlPage());

/// <summary>Three date intervals with stable task identities and an explicitly configured time axis.</summary>
public static class TimelineRecipe {
    public static Chart Create(string variant = "wide", VisualThemeMode mode = VisualThemeMode.Light) {
        var start = new DateTime(2026, 3, 2, 8, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
        var discovery = new ChartSeries(new ChartSeriesId("discovery"), "Discovery", ChartSeriesKind.Timeline,
            new[] { new ChartPoint(start.ToOADate(), start.AddDays(3).ToOADate()) });
        var implementation = new ChartSeries(new ChartSeriesId("implementation"), "Implementation", ChartSeriesKind.Timeline,
            new[] { new ChartPoint(start.AddDays(2).ToOADate(), start.AddDays(7).ToOADate()) });
        var validation = new ChartSeries(new ChartSeriesId("validation"), "Validation", ChartSeriesKind.Timeline,
            new[] { new ChartPoint(start.AddDays(6).ToOADate(), start.AddDays(9).ToOADate()) });
        return Chart.Create().AddSeries(discovery).AddSeries(implementation).AddSeries(validation)
            .ConfigureXAxis(axis => {
                axis.Scale = ChartScaleKind.Time;
                axis.ValueFormat = ChartValueFormat.Custom(value => DateTime.FromOADate(value).ToString("MMM d", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
            }).WithValueFormat(ChartValueFormat.Number("0.##", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using ChartForgeX.Core;
using ChartForgeX.Primitives;
using ChartForgeX.Rendering;
using ChartForgeX.Themes;
using ChartForgeX.Topology;
using ChartForgeX.Typography;
using ChartForgeX.VisualArtifacts;
using ChartForgeX.VisualBlocks;

var mode = VisualThemeMode.Dark;
var theme = VisualTheme.Graphite();
var model = TimelineRecipe.Create("compact", mode);
var context = new VisualRenderContext(
    new VisualLayoutOptions(new VisualSize(360, 360)), theme, mode,
    new VisualFrame("Project activities in March 2026", "The same data in a compact view", showLegend: null, showSurface: false));
var prepared = model.Prepare(context);
File.WriteAllText("visual.svg", prepared.ToSvg());
File.WriteAllBytes("visual.png", prepared.ToPng());
File.WriteAllText("visual.html", prepared.ToArtifact("example", VisualArtifactKind.Chart).ToHtmlPage());

/// <summary>Three date intervals with stable task identities and an explicitly configured time axis.</summary>
public static class TimelineRecipe {
    public static Chart Create(string variant = "wide", VisualThemeMode mode = VisualThemeMode.Light) {
        var start = new DateTime(2026, 3, 2, 8, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
        var discovery = new ChartSeries(new ChartSeriesId("discovery"), "Discovery", ChartSeriesKind.Timeline,
            new[] { new ChartPoint(start.ToOADate(), start.AddDays(3).ToOADate()) });
        var implementation = new ChartSeries(new ChartSeriesId("implementation"), "Implementation", ChartSeriesKind.Timeline,
            new[] { new ChartPoint(start.AddDays(2).ToOADate(), start.AddDays(7).ToOADate()) });
        var validation = new ChartSeries(new ChartSeriesId("validation"), "Validation", ChartSeriesKind.Timeline,
            new[] { new ChartPoint(start.AddDays(6).ToOADate(), start.AddDays(9).ToOADate()) });
        return Chart.Create().AddSeries(discovery).AddSeries(implementation).AddSeries(validation)
            .ConfigureXAxis(axis => {
                axis.Scale = ChartScaleKind.Time;
                axis.ValueFormat = ChartValueFormat.Custom(value => DateTime.FromOADate(value).ToString("MMM d", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
            }).WithValueFormat(ChartValueFormat.Number("0.##", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
    }
}