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How to create a histogram showing the percentages associated with a list of objects?

Using the DataVisualization.Charting.Chart control, I need to create a histogram (possibly a complex histogram) that shows the person the number of hours booked for that person and the percentage of hours in hours of the total hours. Until now, I am a little overloaded with the number of collections and properties that can be set on this beast, so I would be grateful for the help in getting my diagram, and then I will explore it myself.

I need to bind a chart to a list of the following object:

Public Class DOHoursChartItem

    Public Property Name As String
    Public Property Hours As Double
    Public Property Percent As Double

End Class

I'm not sure I need the percent property here, in favor of allowing the chart management to handle this and just giving it a value Hoursfor each point and the total number of hours, but here's why I ask: how to set up the chart described above?

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I am not very good at VB, so I will start to publish the example in C # (then I can try to translate it if you really need to).

Here are three example methods that you can use to bind your elements to mschart and get column diagrams:

Example 1: columns with one area and side by side

private void FillChartSingleArea()
{
    // this set the datasource
    this.chart1.DataSource = GetItems();

    // clear all the (possible) existing series
    this.chart1.Series.Clear();

    // add the hours series
    var hoursSeries = this.chart1.Series.Add("Hours");
    hoursSeries.XValueMember = "Name";
    hoursSeries.YValueMembers = "Hours";
    hoursSeries.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Column;

    // add the percentages series
    var percSeries = this.chart1.Series.Add("Percentages");
    percSeries.XValueMember = "Name";
    percSeries.YValueMembers = "Percent";
    percSeries.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Column;
}

columns side-by-side

Example 2: two diagrams one on top of the other

private void FillChartDoubleArea()
{
    // this set the datasource
    this.chart1.DataSource = GetItems();

    // clear all the (possible) existing series
    this.chart1.Series.Clear();

    // clear all the existing areas and add 2 new areas
    this.chart1.ChartAreas.Clear();
    this.chart1.ChartAreas.Add("Area1");
    this.chart1.ChartAreas.Add("Area2");

    // add the hours series
    var hoursSeries = this.chart1.Series.Add("Hours");
    hoursSeries.ChartArea = "Area1";
    hoursSeries.XValueMember = "Name";
    hoursSeries.YValueMembers = "Hours";
    hoursSeries.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Column;

    // add the percentages series
    var percSeries = this.chart1.Series.Add("Percentages");
    hoursSeries.ChartArea = "Area2";
    percSeries.XValueMember = "Name";
    percSeries.YValueMembers = "Percent";
    percSeries.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Column;
}

2 charts stacked

Example 3: single and multiple column columns

private void FillStackedChartSingleArea()
{
    // this set the datasource
    this.chart1.DataSource = GetItems();

    // clear all the (possible) existing series
    this.chart1.Series.Clear();

    // add the hours series
    var hoursSeries = this.chart1.Series.Add("Hours");
    hoursSeries.XValueMember = "Name";
    hoursSeries.YValueMembers = "Hours";
    hoursSeries.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.StackedColumn;

    // add the percentages series
    var percSeries = this.chart1.Series.Add("Percentages");
    percSeries.XValueMember = "Name";
    percSeries.YValueMembers = "Percent";
    percSeries.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.StackedColumn;
}

stacked columns chart

GetItems ( ):

private List<DOHoursChartItem> GetItems()
{
    var items = new List<DOHoursChartItem>()
    {
        new DOHoursChartItem("John", 120),
        new DOHoursChartItem("Amanda", 40),
        new DOHoursChartItem("David", 70),
        new DOHoursChartItem("Rachel", 10),
    };
    // compute the percentages
    var totalHours = items.Sum(x => x.Hours);
    foreach (var item in items)
        item.Percent = (item.Hours * 100.0) / totalHours;
    return items;
}

DOHoursChartItem :

    class DOHoursChartItem
    {
        public String Name { get; set; }
        public double Hours { get; set; }
        public double Percent { get; set; }
        public DOHoursChartItem(string name, double hours)
        {
            this.Name = name;
            this.Hours = hours;
        }
    }

N.B.

; ChartType Bar ( StackedBar), , .

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