The Silverlight Toolkit provides developers and designers with a whole host of different controls that don't come as standard. Amongs other things it contains charting controls for creating bar charts, pie charts and line graphs etc. I recently had a requirement for a stacked bar chart which unfortunately is one of the few types of chart that isn't supported out of the box. However, after reading a series of posts written by Jafar Husain and taking a look at the toolkit source code I realised that I could create a stacked bar chart relatively easily myself - despite having only limited knowledge of Silverlight. At this point I have to appologise to Jafar - I asked his advice via his blog and he responded with a very comprehensive description of how he would go about tackling this problem. Jafar's approach would have produced a much more complete and flexible solution however, it was overkill for what I needed and I had to get something put together as quickly as possible, so I took an (arguably) more hacky approach. More...
