DateTimeCategory Property

Description

Used to specify how to format the Date and Time values. This is used when the ArgumentScaleType is set to xtpChartScaleDateTime.

Property Type

Read-write property

Syntax (Visual Basic)

Public Property DateTimeCategory() As [ChartDateTimeFormatCategory](XtremeChartControl~Enumerations~ChartDateTimeFormatCategory_EN.md)

Return Type

Returns a value from the ChartDateTimeFormatCategory enumeration that specifies how to format the DateTime value.

Remarks

DateTimeCategory is used to tell the chart how to handle the formatting of DateTime values. The category must be specified so the correct formatting is applied to the value. This is used when the ArgumentScaleType is set to xtpChartScaleDateTime. The formatting can be set to General, Short Date, Long Date, Short Time, Long Time, Month and Day, Month and Year, or Custom. For custom formats, use DateTimeFormat.

Example

This example shows how to set a custom date format:

Dim Diagram As ChartDiagram2D  
Set Diagram = ChartControl.Content.Diagrams(0)  
Diagram.AxisX.Label.Format.DateTimeCategory = xtpChartDateTimeLongTime

The picture below uses Diagram.AxisX.Label.Format.DateTimeCategory = xtpChartDateTimeLongTime.

Date Label