LightningChart .NET

Visual Studio Charting Component for Data Visualization on WPF and Windows Forms Application

.NET Chart for the Most Demanding Developers

LightningChart includes a wide range of 2D, advanced 3D, Polar, Smith, 3D pies / donuts, Geographic maps & G.I.S. charts for science, engineering, medicine, aerospace, trading, energy and other fields.

Along with an outstanding performance, LightningChart offers fully customizable tools and flexibility to the .Net developers within different industries.

  • 0:13 - Business Charts
  • 1:47 - Finance and Trading
  • 2:40 - Geography and Maps
  • 3:42 - Measurement and Digital Signal Processing
  • 5:38 - Science and Engineering Charts
  • 8:44 - Volume Rendering

General Information

  • Real-time monitoring without flickering or delays
  • Efficient use of machine resources and high-resolution datasets
  • Ability to render data with older machine hardware
  • Full mouse-interaction, touch screen support, custom mouse interactivity extensions
  • Numeric, Time, DateTime, Logarithmic, Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) and Custom axis scales

Rendering Technology

  • DirectX 11 & DirectX 9 support
  • Automatic software rendering with WARP in systems without graphics hardware and for virtual machines
  • Selectable fonts quality
  • HiDPI scaling support
  • Can be run in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes

Features

Watch the sample videos by clicking the chart images!


Bronze Package includes XY charts.

XY charts

  • Series types: sampled data (discrete signal), point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, polygon, stock (candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh
  • Real-time monitoring scrolling modes: scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
  • Heatmaps with contours, wireframe, contour labels
  • Stencil for rendering intensity series inside polygon, map region
  • Persistent rendering layers, Multiple legends, and X axes scale break

Silver Package includes XY charts and 3D charts.

XY charts

  • Series types: sampled data (discrete signal), point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, polygon, stock (candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh
  • Real-time monitoring scrolling modes: scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
  • Heatmaps with contours, wireframe, contour labels
  • Stencil for rendering intensity series inside polygon, map region
  • Persistent rendering layers, Multiple legends, and X axes scale break

3D charts

  • Include ViewPie3D
  • Series types: surface mesh, surface grid, waterfall, polygon, rectangle planes, mesh models, point-line, bar and pie charts
  • 3D scene settings with Multiple light sources
  • Import 3D models in .obj
  • Gigantic surface sizes of over 4096x4096, depending on available memory

Gold Package includes polar charts, smith charts, add-on map features, and add-on signal tools as well as the charts included in Silver Package.

XY charts

  • Series types: sampled data (discrete signal), point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, polygon, stock (candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh
  • Real-time monitoring scrolling modes: scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
  • Heatmaps with contours, wireframe, contour labels
  • Stencil for rendering intensity series inside polygon, map region
  • Persistent rendering layers, Multiple legends, and X axes scale break

3D charts

  • Include ViewPie3D
  • Series types: surface mesh, surface grid, waterfall, polygon, rectangle planes, mesh models, point-line, bar and pie charts
  • 3D scene settings with Multiple light sources
  • Import 3D models in .obj
  • Gigantic surface sizes of over 4096x4096, depending on available memory

Map features

  • On-line tile maps: supports street maps and satellite imagery
  • Dozens of maps: World, continents, specific areas
  • Multi-layer: land, lakes, rivers, roads, cities etc
  • Map import from ESRI shape file data

Smith charts

  • Series types: point-line
  • Absolute and normalized scales

Polar charts

  • Series types: area, point-line
  • Unlimited, Multiple amplitude and angle axes
  • Sectors
  • Markers

Signal Tools Features

  • SignalReader: SignalReader generates real-time data stream reading signal files in different formats: WAV (PCM), sid (biosignal file), ssd (LightningChart Ultimate Demo application sample data format). The playback can be automatically restarted with looping option.
  • AudioInput: Reads real-time sampled data stream from sound card line-in (using e.g. microphone) through DirectSound. The data can be forwarded to chart, AudioOutput or your own data target.
  • SignalGenerator: SignalGenerator is a multi-functional signal generator component. It allows combining different waveform types into single, real-time output signal. The waveform components can be set with a built-in user interface or by code.
  • SpectrumCalculator: Converts data between time domain and frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
  • AudioOutput: Allows real-time data stream playback via sound card line-out (using e.g. speakers) through DirectSound. The data can be fetched from SignalGenerator, SignalReader, AudioInput or other data source.

Platinum Package includes volume rendering features as well as the charts and features included in Silver Package and Gold Package.

XY charts

  • Series types: sampled data (discrete signal), point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, polygon, stock (candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh
  • Real-time monitoring scrolling modes: scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
  • Heatmaps with contours, wireframe, contour labels
  • Stencil for rendering intensity series inside polygon, map region
  • Persistent rendering layers, Multiple legends, and X axes scale break

3D charts

  • Include ViewPie3D
  • Series types: surface mesh, surface grid, waterfall, polygon, rectangle planes, mesh models, point-line, bar and pie charts
  • 3D scene settings with Multiple light sources
  • Import 3D models in .obj
  • Gigantic surface sizes of over 4096x4096, depending on available memory

Volume Rendering Features

  • Separate Linear Transfer function for every channel
  • Volume Thresholding in accordance with voxels brightness for every channel
  • Dynamic modification of Voxel range
  • Manual or Automatic Adoptive sampling rate of volume data
  • Three interchangeable options for Volume Rendering Ray function
  • Full interaction with traditional 3D models

Smith charts

  • Series types: point-line
  • Absolute and normalized scales

Polar charts

  • Series types: area, point-line
  • Unlimited, Multiple amplitude and angle axes
  • Sectors
  • Markers

Map features

  • On-line tile maps: supports street maps and satellite imagery
  • Dozens of maps: World, continents, specific areas
  • Multi-layer: land, lakes, rivers, roads, cities etc
  • Map import from ESRI shape file data

Signal Tools Features

  • SignalReader: SignalReader generates real-time data stream reading signal files in different formats: WAV (PCM), sid (biosignal file), ssd (LightningChart Ultimate Demo application sample data format). The playback can be automatically restarted with looping option.
  • AudioInput: Reads real-time sampled data stream from sound card line-in (using e.g. microphone) through DirectSound. The data can be forwarded to chart, AudioOutput or your own data target.
  • SignalGenerator: SignalGenerator is a multi-functional signal generator component. It allows combining different waveform types into single, real-time output signal. The waveform components can be set with a built-in user interface or by code.
  • SpectrumCalculator: Converts data between time domain and frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
  • AudioOutput: Allows real-time data stream playback via sound card line-out (using e.g. speakers) through DirectSound. The data can be fetched from SignalGenerator, SignalReader, AudioInput or other data source.

System Requirements

OS
  • Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10
  • Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016

*Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are supported.
DirectX
  • DirectX 9.0c (shader model 3) level graphics adapter or newer
  • DirectX 11 compatible operating system with Direct2D 1.1

*Rendering can be done without graphics hardware.
*DirectX11 compatible graphics hardware recommended.
Visual Studio
  • Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
  • Not required for deployment
Development Framework
  • .NET Framework 4.0 or newer
  • .NET Core 3.0 (WinForms and WPF libraries)

*LightningChart source code does not support compilation as .NET Core 3.0 libraries.

Edition Comparison

For WPF, LightningChart component is available in different binding level editions, to balance between different performance and MVVM (Model – View – View-Model) bindability needs.

As a general starting point, LightningChart recommends Semi-bindable API.

For best performance in WPF and multithreading benefits, select Non-Bindable chart.

Chart Edition Properties Binding Series Data Binding Per-Data-Point Binding Performance
WPF (non-bindable)
WPF (semi-bindable)
WinForms

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