how to enable zooming in Microsoft chart control by using Mouse wheel

Question

I am using Microsoft Chart control in my project and I want to enable zooming feature in Chart Control by using Mouse Wheel, how can I achieve this?

but user don\'t

Answer 1

Waaaay late to the party, but I had this challenge myself today. I am sure the following can be improved, still, but it's what I came up with. I tested this with .net 4.5.2 and 4.6, so I am not sure if it works with older frameworks.

I've combined a couple of answers from way in the past and made the following:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting;

namespace ExampleApp
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private const float CZoomScale = 4f;
        private int FZoomLevel = 0;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            chart1.MouseWheel += Chart1_MouseWheel;
        }

        private void Chart1_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!chart1.Focused)
                chart1.Focus();
        }

        private void Chart1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (chart1.Focused)
                chart1.Parent.Focus();
        }

        private void Chart1_MouseWheel(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            try {
                Axis xAxis = chart1.ChartAreas[0].AxisX;
                double xMin = xAxis.ScaleView.ViewMinimum;
                double xMax = xAxis.ScaleView.ViewMaximum;
                double xPixelPos = xAxis.PixelPositionToValue(e.Location.X);

                if (e.Delta < 0 && FZoomLevel > 0) {
                    // Scrolled down, meaning zoom out
                    if (--FZoomLevel <= 0) {
                        FZoomLevel = 0;
                        xAxis.ScaleView.ZoomReset();
                    } else {
                        double xStartPos = Math.Max(xPixelPos - (xPixelPos - xMin) * CZoomScale, 0);
                        double xEndPos = Math.Min(xStartPos + (xMax - xMin) * CZoomScale, xAxis.Maximum);
                        xAxis.ScaleView.Zoom(xStartPos, xEndPos);
                    }
                } else if (e.Delta > 0) {
                    // Scrolled up, meaning zoom in
                    double xStartPos = Math.Max(xPixelPos - (xPixelPos - xMin) / CZoomScale, 0);
                    double xEndPos = Math.Min(xStartPos + (xMax - xMin) / CZoomScale, xAxis.Maximum);
                    xAxis.ScaleView.Zoom(xStartPos, xEndPos);
                    FZoomLevel++;
                }
            } catch { }
        }
    }
}