In this post David Anson demonstrates how to display text labels on a NumericAxis with the help of the Charting controls that are part of the Silverlight Toolkit.
A customer contacted me a few days ago asking how to display text labels on a NumericAxis. (Whereas CategoryAxis makes it easy to use text labels for the independent axis, this request was about text labels on the dependent axis.) It's a bit of an unusual request (I spent a minute just now and don't see how to accomplish this in Excel), but I knew it would be easy to do with the Charting controls in the Data Visualization assembly that's part of the Silverlight Toolkit and WPF Toolkit.