I found a bug in 2014.1 (VS 2010), here's how to reproduce it:

1) Unzip attached binary settings file and load it to a chart control in the VS designer, that works perfectly
2) Save the chart to an XML-file
3) Clear the chart
4) Load settings from the XML-file saved in step 2: The MaxTickCount settings for the ordinal scale configurator are reset to the default (int max value):