Bug in charts when using Category

We loaded the source for the simple area chart and when our MainLayout contains an section it will not render. When we remove the section it DOES render, but it throws an exception:

crit: Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Rendering.WebAssemblyRenderer[100]
      Unhandled exception rendering component: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at System.Linq.Dynamic.Core.Parser.KeywordsHelper..ctor(ParsingConfig config)
   at System.Linq.Dynamic.Core.Parser.ExpressionParser..ctor(ParameterExpression[] parameters, String expression, Object[] values, ParsingConfig parsingConfig)
   at System.Linq.Dynamic.Core.DynamicQueryableExtensions.InternalOrderBy(IQueryable source, ParsingConfig config, String ordering, IComparer comparer, Object[] args)
   at System.Linq.Dynamic.Core.DynamicQueryableExtensions.OrderBy(IQueryable source, ParsingConfig config, String ordering, Object[] args)
   at System.Linq.Dynamic.Core.DynamicQueryableExtensions.OrderBy[DataItem](IQueryable`1 source, ParsingConfig config, String ordering, Object[] args)
   at System.Linq.Dynamic.Core.DynamicQueryableExtensions.OrderBy[DataItem](IQueryable`1 source, String ordering, Object[] args)
   at Radzen.Blazor.CartesianSeries`1.<SetParametersAsync>d__67[[THO.Web.Blazor.Pages.FooBar.DataItem, THO.Web.Blazor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]].MoveNext()

Our MainLayout looks like this:

@inherits LayoutComponentBase

<div class="page">
    <div class="sidebar">
        <NavMenu />
    </div>
    <main>
        <div class="top-row px-4">
            <a href="https://my.krypti.io/" target="_blank">Patron Site</a>
        </div>
        <article class="content px-4">
            <RadzenDialog />
            <RadzenNotification />
            <RadzenContextMenu />
            <RadzenTooltip />
            @Body

            @*<ErrorBoundary>
            <ChildContent>
            <RadzenDialog />
            <RadzenNotification />
            <RadzenContextMenu />
            <RadzenTooltip />
            @Body
            </ChildContent>
            <ErrorContent>
            <RedirectToLogin />
            </ErrorContent>
            </ErrorBoundary>*@
        </article>
    </main>
</div>

As you can see, we have commented out the Error checking which is the only way we can get past the thrown exception.
The chart does render, but we must use the Error section to capture other issues and redirect to login.
The page is a cut / paste from your sample with no changes.

@page "/area-chart"
@using System.Globalization

<h1>Radzen Blazor Chart with area series</h1>
    <div class="container my-5">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col">
                <RadzenCard Class="w-100 mb-4" >
                    <RadzenCheckBox @bind-Value="@smooth" Name="smooth"></RadzenCheckBox>
                    <RadzenLabel Text="Smooth" For="smooth" Style="margin-left: 8px; vertical-align: middle;" />
                </RadzenCard>
                <RadzenChart>
                    <RadzenAreaSeries Smooth="@smooth" Data="@revenue2019" CategoryProperty="Date" Title="2019" ValueProperty="Revenue" RenderingOrder="1">
                    </RadzenAreaSeries>
                    <RadzenAreaSeries Smooth="@smooth" Data="@revenue2020" CategoryProperty="Date" Title="2020" LineType="LineType.Dashed" ValueProperty="Revenue">
                    </RadzenAreaSeries>
                    <RadzenCategoryAxis Padding="20" FormatString="{0:MMM}" />
                    <RadzenValueAxis Formatter="@FormatAsUSD">
                        <RadzenGridLines Visible="true" />
                        <RadzenAxisTitle Text="Revenue in USD" />
                    </RadzenValueAxis>
                </RadzenChart>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
@code {
    bool smooth = true;
    class DataItem
    {
        public DateTime Date { get; set; }
        public double Revenue { get; set; }
    }

    string FormatAsUSD(object value)
    {
        return ((double)value).ToString("C0", CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"));
    }

    DataItem[] revenue2019 = new DataItem[] {
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-01-01"),
            Revenue = 234000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-02-01"),
            Revenue = 269000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-03-01"),
            Revenue = 233000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-04-01"),
            Revenue = 244000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-05-01"),
            Revenue = 214000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-06-01"),
            Revenue = 253000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-07-01"),
            Revenue = 274000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-08-01"),
            Revenue = 284000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-09-01"),
            Revenue = 273000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-10-01"),
            Revenue = 282000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-11-01"),
            Revenue = 289000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-12-01"),
            Revenue = 294000
        }
    };

    DataItem[] revenue2020 = new DataItem[] {
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-01-01"),
            Revenue = 334000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-02-01"),
            Revenue = 369000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-03-01"),
            Revenue = 333000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-04-01"),
            Revenue = 344000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-05-01"),
            Revenue = 314000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-06-01"),
            Revenue = 353000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-07-01"),
            Revenue = 374000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-08-01"),
            Revenue = 384000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-09-01"),
            Revenue = 373000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-10-01"),
            Revenue = 382000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-11-01"),
            Revenue = 389000
        },
        new DataItem
        {
            Date = DateTime.Parse("2019-12-01"),
            Revenue = 394000
        }
    };
}

Any help is appreciated since we want to use this chart to show daily price fluctuations of a public asset.

We are using Radzen.Blazor 3.18.13 and .Net 6.0

Thank you.

Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce the problem with our sample application. I modified the layout to include

                        <ErrorBoundary>
                        @Body
                        </ErrorBoundary>

but everything worked as expected and no exception was thrown. Are you using the latest version? Could you provide a simple reproduction of the problem (you can modify our sample application).

When I build a stand alone app, it seems to work fine. I did notice that a newer version (3.18.14) is now available. I updated all packages in my main app and the main app still fails with the same error. I will try to isolate the differences and update this later.

The exceptions seems to come from dynamic linq. Make sure you are not using an older version of it (or some of your other dependencies).

I have ensured that I have all updates installed. I then took all of the System.* and Microsoft,* files from my failing app and copied them over to the stand alone sample. The stand alone still works, and the failing app still fails. I will totally re-create my failing app adding one feature at a time to see if and when it fails with that strange exception. At this time, the issue seems to be some kind of interaction between my app and the dynamic linq. You can close this ticket, and if I find the answer I will update it to help some other struggling soul.

BTW - If I remove the "CategoryProperty", it all works fine, but the graphic looks pretty weird.