Fastest .NET Chart Built for Real-Time Visualization

LightningChart .NET delivers unmatched rendering speed, deep customization, and expert technical onboarding.

Why LightningChart .NET?

LightningChart .NET charts are the fastest 2D & 3D .NET charts data visualization SDK for WPF, WinForms, and UWP. It has been actively developed since 2009.

The charting library contains over 170 interactive .NET charts with rich functionality that is suitable for the creation of applications within the most demanding industries: science and research, engineering, economics and finance, trading, medicine, energy, space, and defense

The highest .NET charts performance on the market

LightningChart .NET charts are an entirely GPU-accelerated and performance-optimized charting components that can display record-breaking amounts of data points in real-time. What does this mean for you?

• Real-time monitoring without flickering or delays
• High-resolution datasets
• Smooth Interactivity
• Efficient use of machine resources
• Ability to render data with old machine hardware, maintaining all advantages mentioned above

Countless hours of product development and hard work of the LightningChart development team have resulted in LightningChart .NET charts becoming an absolute charting library with unmatched performance results that would impress even the most demanding developers in the industry.

For the most demanding developers

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

Along with an outstanding performance, LightningChart .NET charting library offers fully customizable tools and flexibility to .NET developers within different industries.

Our technical support team is known for its ability to handle every challenge from our clients, so you will receive unlimited dedicated support during your active subscription.

System requirementss

• DirectX 9.0c (shader model 3) level graphics adapter or newer, or DirectX11 compatible operating system for rendering without graphics hardware. DirectX11 compatible graphics hardware recommended.

• .NET framework v. 4.0 or newer installed. NOTE, only LightningChart version prior v10.0.1 was targeting .NET Framework 4.0. For later versions target .NET Framework version was increase, and LightningChart v11.0.1 already target .NET Framework 4.8.

• Visual Studio 2010-2022 for development, not required for deployment. NOTE, for several latest LightningChart versions at least Visual Studio 2022 is required, because .NET Framework 4.6 and above is used. Visual Studio 2022 is required for .NET (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) projects.

• Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 or 11, as 32 bit or 64 bit, Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher.

.NET compatibility

Before LightningChart version 11.0.1 it was built primary for .NET framework, but is also compatible with the following .NET versions:

• .NET Framework 4.x
• .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1
• .NET 5
• .NET 6
• .NET 7
• .NET 8
• .NET 9

Staring from LightningChart version 11.0.1, library is build targeting .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 6.0. Starting from LightningChart version 12.2.1, library is build targeting .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 8.0. Project's (where library will be used) build target framework should be the same or higher.

! WARNING

Currently Visual Studio (2022 17.8) does not support Controls/Toolbox Deployment through DLL-reference for .NET (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) projects. Therefore, LightningChart .NET 6.0 controls could not be installed same way as for .NET Framework and LightningChart controls will not appear in Visual Studio toolbox in .NET Core 3.x, .NET 5, .NET 6, .NET 7, .NET 8 or .NET 9 projects.

This is not LightningChart specific, and effect any custom-control. Probably Microsoft Visual Studio dev. team will fix it in the future. However, this limitation does not prevent LightningChart control usage - user just need to add references manually and create chart in the code.