It seems that you are using .NET 8, not .NET Framework. To use the charts, try to close the Form Designer, right-click the WinFormApp7 project in Solution Explorer, select “Manage NuGet packages”, go to Browse tab, find the “WinForms.DataVisualization” package and install it. Reopen the form and find the chart control in Toolbox. The charts should be also available if you create a new “Windows Forms App (.NET Framework)” project instead of “Windows Forms App”.

Hi im currently working on project that using Windows form app and im using The newest Net Framework 8.0 but why i cant add chart on my project. The worse is the menu even does not exist.

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 32,141 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-03-06T08:45:40.13+00:00

Hello @abdul rahman alif putra ,

We haven't heard from you for a couple of days.

Did you try to use the NuGet packages or a .NET Framework based WinForm project? Did it work?

Please feel free to contact us.

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Viorel 118.9K Reputation points

2024-03-01T21:45:37.76+00:00

It seems that you are using .NET 8, not .NET Framework.

To use the charts, try to close the Form Designer, right-click the WinFormApp7 project in Solution Explorer, select “Manage NuGet packages”, go to Browse tab, find the “WinForms.DataVisualization” package and install it. Reopen the form and find the chart control in Toolbox.

The charts should be also available if you create a new “Windows Forms App (.NET Framework)” project instead of “Windows Forms App”.
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 32,141 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-03-04T03:16:54.79+00:00

Hello @abdul rahman alif putra ,

Here’s some additional information:

If you right-click in the Toolbox, select Show All, and then search in the Toolbox, you will see that the Chart control exists, it’s just not available.

As the Chart control is not supported in the .NET based project, you cannot find it in the Toolbox.

.NET Framework, .NET Core/.NET are different. You are using .NET 8.0, instead of .NET Framework(.NET Framework includes 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8… .NET Core includes 3.0 and 3.1… .NET includes 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0…).

There are two different project templates in Visual Studio, one is for .NET, the other is for .NET Framework.

Please try the suggestions shared by @Viorel . Using NuGet packages or using a .NET Framework based WinForm project.
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Hi im currently working on project that using Windows form app and im using The newest Net Framework 8.0 but why i cant add chart on my project. The worse is the menu even does not exist.

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