Charts grid lines style

Question

I am using the standard charts library from Visual Studio 2010. The chart works fine but I am unable to change the axis grid line style. These are the properties already set in Form1.Designers.cs

chartArea3.Name = "ChartArea1";
        this.chart1.ChartAreas.Add(chartArea3);
        legend3.Name = "Legend1";
        this.chart1.Legends.Add(legend3);
        this.chart1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(12, 68);
        this.chart1.Name = "chart1";
        series5.ChartArea = "ChartArea1";
        series5.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Line;
        series5.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
        series5.Legend = "Legend1";
        series5.Name = "Temp";
        series6.ChartArea = "ChartArea1";
        series6.ChartType = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.SeriesChartType.Line;
        series6.Color = System.Drawing.Color.Blue;
        series6.Legend = "Legend1";
        series6.Name = "Umid";
        this.chart1.Series.Add(series5);
        this.chart1.Series.Add(series6);
        this.chart1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(647, 182);
        this.chart1.TabIndex = 8;
        this.chart1.Text = "chart1";
        this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.Interval=5;

I would like to have the axis grid type dots or dashdots. I have tried with:

this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineDashStyle.??????

but then I do not know how to assign the property and/or if the above partial line of code is correct.

Answer 1

Finally I got it right:

 this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorGrid.LineDashStyle = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartDashStyle.DashDotDot;
        this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisY.MajorGrid.LineDashStyle = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartDashStyle.DashDotDot;

This is working and gives access to the line style of the grid axes.

 this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.MajorGrid.LineDashStyle = System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartDashStyle.availableStileSelectionHere;

Answer 2

You'll want to check out the ChartDashStyle enumeration. Your choices should be Dash, DashDot, DashDotDot, Dot, Solid, and NotSet.

AxisX is of type Charting.Axis so that's where the line type information is expressed.

So try:

this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineDashStyle.Dot

or

this.chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX.LineDashStyle.DashDot