Microsoft chart control - redraw chart after failure (red cross)

Question

I have a treeView element where every node represent a double list.

I'm using a DataVisualization.Charting control to display the values in the list.

For some of the lists I get an exception after RecalculateAxesScale (System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal). I ignore this error and therefore the chart displays a big red cross.

When I now click on another node I want to display the chart of this double list (which is valid), but my chart is not redrawn. It always displays the red X.

My code:

private void treeView1_AfterSelect(object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
{

//Refresh chart:
chart1.Series.Clear();
chart1.ResetAutoValues();
chart1.ResetText();

//plot new doublelist
var series = new Series
{
   Name = "name",
   Color = color,
   ChartType = SeriesChartType.Line,
   ChartArea = "chartName"
};

this.chart1.Series.Add(series);
    series.Points.DataBindY(doubleList);
    var chartArea = chart1.ChartAreas["chartName"];
    chartArea.RecalculateAxesScale();
    chartArea.AxisX.Minimum = 1;
    chartArea.AxisX.Maximum = doubleList.Count;
    chartArea.CursorX.AutoScroll = true;
    chartArea.CursorY.AutoScroll = true;

    // Allow user to select area for zooming
    chartArea.CursorX.IsUserEnabled = true;
    chartArea.CursorX.IsUserSelectionEnabled = true;

    // Set automatic zooming`<br>
    chartArea.AxisX.ScaleView.Zoomable = true;
    chartArea.AxisY.ScaleView.Zoomable = true;
    chartArea.AxisX.ScrollBar.IsPositionedInside = true;

    //reset zoom
    chartArea.AxisX.ScaleView.ZoomReset();
    chart1.Invalidate();
}

[EDIT]

Type of dblList:

List<double> doubleList= (from s in myData select s.value).ToList(); 

Full stack of Exceptions:

{System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal.
at System.Decimal.FCallMultiply(Decimal& d1, Decimal& d2)
at System.Decimal.op_Multiply(Decimal d1, Decimal d2)
at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Axis.RoundedValues(Double inter, Boolean shouldStartFromZero, Boolean autoMax, Boolean autoMin, Double& min, Double& max)
at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Axis.EstimateNumberAxis(Double& minimumValue, Double& maximumValue, Boolean shouldStartFromZero, Int32 preferredNumberOfIntervals, Boolean autoMaximum, Boolean autoMinimum)
at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Axis.EstimateAxis(Double& minimumValue, Double& maximumValue, Boolean autoMaximum, Boolean autoMinimum)
at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Axis.EstimateAxis()
at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartArea.SetDefaultAxesValues()
at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartArea.SetData(Boolean initializeAxes, Boolean checkIndexedAligned)

at System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.ChartArea.RecalculateAxesScale()

[EDIT 2]

Example List:

   List<double> dblList = new List<double>();
   dblList.Add(0.0);
   dblList.Add(-7.4876421623346545E-36);
   dblList.Add(1.0);
   dblList.Add(-26697097281536.0);
   dblList.Add(-6.8163553952838136E+28); //problem!!!!!

The last value produces the problem (red cross without exception). So it seems that the min and max values for converting the list are not appropriate. Any ideas on that?

 double min = (double)Decimal.MinValue; //min = -7.9228162514264338E+28
 double max = (double)Decimal.MaxValue; //max =  7.9228162514264338E+28

Answer 1

The error in RecalculateAxesScale (System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal) was thrown, because of a Bug in the Library. It uses decimal values inside the implementation of chart functions (especially in axes recalculation/zoom), which causes the problem.

Just checking for every chart point if its value is lower or greater than

double min = (double)Decimal.MinValue;
double max = (double)Decimal.MaxValue;

and replace it by this values didn't solve the problem.

I chose -/+7.92E+27 as bounds instead of the ones above and everything is working fine now.