Drawing scatter point plot in wpf application

Question

Does Microsoft have an official control for drawing scatter plot? I did a search and System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Toolkit seems to come up a fair bit but I couldn't seem to find where to download this library. Is my best bet to use the System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization one if I don't want to rely on 3rd party libraries?

Answer 1

Hi,@Tan, Thuan Seah. Welcome Microsoft Q&A.

Microsoft does not have an official control for drawing scatter plots in WPF. The System.Windows.Controls.DataVisualization.Toolkit library you mentioned package only contains assemblies for the .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile. Therefore, it is not compatible with any version of .NET Core.

Since this package is not an official Microsoft package and there are no updates for .NET Core

If you prefer not to use third-party libraries, you could use the System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization library as Castorix31 said, which is part of the .NET Framework and includes a Chart control that can be used to draw scatter plots.

First, add references to the following assemblies to your WPF project.

• System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization
• System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Design
• System.Windows.Forms
• WindowsFormsIntegration

MainWindow.xaml:

<Grid x:Name="grid">
        
    </Grid>

MainWindow.xaml.cs:

using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting;

namespace WpfApp3
{
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {

        Chart chart1 = new Chart();
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost host = new System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost();

            draw();
            chart1.Titles.Add(" Chart");
            host.Child = chart1;
            grid.Children.Add(host);
        }
        public Chart draw()
        {
            ChartArea ChartArea1 = new ChartArea();
            this.chart1.ChartAreas.Add("ChartArea1");
            this.chart1.Series.Add("series");
            this.chart1.Series[0].Points.AddXY(1, 5);
            this.chart1.Series[0].Points.AddXY(2, 4);
            this.chart1.Series[0].Points.AddXY(3, 3);
            this.chart1.Series[0].Points.AddXY(4, 2);
            this.chart1.Series[0].Points.AddXY(5, 1);


            return chart1;
        }
    }
}

The result:

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Answer 2

You can embed the Winforms Chart control, like I had answered in this thread https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/aspnet/en-US/65ab3e8d-6911-445a-ba86-abdb4458732a/charts-in-wpf-how-to?forum=wpf