Use the Copy method to copy the control's content to the clipboard. You can paste this to Microsoft Word, Excel, and so on. By default, the control copies its content to the clipboard when user presses the CTRL + C combination. Use the CopyTo method to export the control's content to an PDF,JPG,PNG,GIF,TIF,BMP,EMF file.

The following VB sample saves the control's content to a file:

Clipboard.Clear
ChartView.Copy
SavePicture Clipboard.GetData(), App.Path & "\test.emf"

Now, you can open your MS Windows Word application, and you can insert the file using the Insert\Picture\From File menu.

The following C++ function saves the clipboard's data ( EMF format ) to a picture file:

BOOL saveEMFtoFile( LPCTSTR szFileName )
{
	BOOL bResult = FALSE;
	if ( ::OpenClipboard( NULL ) )
	{
		CComPtr spPicture;
		PICTDESC pictDesc = {0};
		pictDesc.cbSizeofstruct = sizeof(pictDesc);
		pictDesc.emf.hemf = (HENHMETAFILE)GetClipboardData( CF_ENHMETAFILE );
		pictDesc.picType = PICTYPE_ENHMETAFILE;
		if ( SUCCEEDED( OleCreatePictureIndirect( &pictDesc, IID_IPicture, FALSE, (LPVOID*)&spPicture ) ) )
		{
			HGLOBAL hGlobal = NULL;
			CComPtr spStream;
			if ( SUCCEEDED( CreateStreamOnHGlobal( hGlobal = GlobalAlloc( GPTR, 0 ), TRUE, &spStream ) ) )
			{
				long dwSize = NULL;
				if ( SUCCEEDED( spPicture->SaveAsFile( spStream, TRUE, &dwSize ) ) )
				{
					USES_CONVERSION;
					HANDLE hFile = CreateFile( szFileName, GENERIC_WRITE, NULL, NULL, CREATE_ALWAYS, NULL, NULL );
					if ( hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
					{
						LARGE_INTEGER l = {NULL};
						spStream->Seek(l, STREAM_SEEK_SET, NULL);
						long dwWritten = NULL;
						while ( dwWritten < dwSize )
						{
							unsigned long dwRead = NULL;
							BYTE b[10240] = {0};
							spStream->Read( &b, 10240, &dwRead );
							DWORD dwBWritten = NULL;
							WriteFile( hFile, b, dwRead, &dwBWritten, NULL );
							dwWritten += dwBWritten;
						}
						CloseHandle( hFile );
						bResult = TRUE;
					}
				}
			}
		}
		CloseClipboard();
	}
	return bResult;
}

The following VB.NET sample copies the control's content to the clipboard ( open the mspaint application and paste the clipboard, after running the following code ):

Clipboard.Clear()
With AxChartView1
    .Copy()
End With

The following C# sample copies the control's content to a file ( open the mspaint application and paste the clipboard, after running the following code ):

Clipboard.Clear;
axChartView1.Copy();