Chart.SeriesCollection Method

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01/07/2014

Gets either a single series (a Series object) or a collection of all the series (a SeriesCollection collection) in the chart or chart group.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function SeriesCollection ( _
    Index As Object _
) As Object

Object SeriesCollection(
    Object Index
)

Parameters

Index
Type: System.Object

The name or number of the series.

Return Value

Type: System.Object

Remarks

Optional Parameters

For information on optional parameters, see Optional Parameters in Office Solutions.

Examples

The following code example creates a Chart and then uses the SeriesCollection method to add data labels to the first series in the chart.

Private Sub UseSeriesCollection()
    Me.Range("A1", "A5").Value2 = 22
    Me.Range("B1", "B5").Value2 = 55

    Dim Chart1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart = _
        Me.Controls.AddChart(Me.Range("D2", "H12"), "Chart1")

    Chart1.SetSourceData(Me.Range("A1", "B5"), Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
    Chart1.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xlColumnClustered

    Dim series1 As Excel.Series = CType(Chart1.SeriesCollection(1), _
        Excel.Series)

    series1.HasDataLabels = True 
End Sub

private void UseSeriesCollection()
{
    this.Range["A1", "A5"].Value2 = 22;
    this.Range["B1", "B5"].Value2 = 55;

    Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart chart1 =
        this.Controls.AddChart(this.Range["D2", "H12"], 
        "chart1");

    chart1.SetSourceData(this.Range["A1", "B5"], 
        Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns);
    chart1.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xlColumnClustered;

    Excel.Series series1 =
        (Excel.Series)chart1.SeriesCollection(1);

    series1.HasDataLabels = true;
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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