Introduction

LightningChart® .NET SDK is an add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio, consisting of data visualization related software components and tool classes for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), UWP (Universal Windows Platform) and Windows Forms .NET platforms.

LightningChart components are delivered for serious scientific, engineering, measurement and trading solutions, execution performance and very advanced features in special focus.

LightningChart components use low-level DirectX11 and DirectX9 GPU acceleration instead of slower GDI/GDI+ or WPF Graphics APIs. LightningChart has fallback to DirectX11/DirectX10 WARP software rendering when GPU is not accessible, such as in some virtual machine platforms.

About this document

This document is a collection of tips how to get started and a brief User’s Manual. This document will grow to include not only essential key features, but also every detail of library. Please bookmark this page and visit to find new tips & tricks, code excerpts or just for inspiration.