High-performance WPF, WinForms & UWP .NET Charts & Graphs
LightningChart .NET can visualize up to 1 TRILLION data points in real-time.
World's Fastest .NET Charts
What's NEW in LightningChart. NET v.12.2.1
HexagonShape
We are introducing the hexagon shape available for the Points and Markers properties.
Improved 3D Interactions
We have greatly improved 3D interactions like zooming, rotation, and panning for objects that render as large surfaces.
LightningChart provides the following signal tools:
Signal Reader
Signal reader generates a real-time data stream and can read signal files in different formats: WAV (PCM), sid (biosignal file), ssd (LightningChart Ultimate application demo sample data format), playback can be started automatically using the loop option.
Audio Input
Captures a real-time acquisition data stream based on the DirectSound from the sound card input (for example: using the microphone). The data may be output via audio or provided by the user himself.
Signal generator
Signal generator is a multifunctional signal generation component that combines different waveform types into a single real-time output signal. Support built-in user interface, or set your own.
Spectrum calculation
Converts data between the time and frequency domains using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm. It is most suitable for calculating the power spectrum of FFT conversion and acquisition signal data.
Audio Output
Plays a real-time data stream based on the DirectSound from the sound card line output (for example: using speakers). Data can be obtained from SignalGenerator,SignalReader,AudioInput, or through other data sources.
Chart Version
LightningChart components have different binding binding versions in WPF to cope with different performance requirements and MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) bindable needs.
In general, Arction recommend using the Semi-bindable semi-binding API.
For the best performance and multithreading benefits of WPF, Arction recommend using Non-Bindable unbindable charts.
More Information
• Supports full mouse interaction, touch screen manipulation, custom mouse interaction extensions
• Support for cursors and annotations, use color palettes to color data, and components are fully customizable
• Support for forming data interval graphs with NaN or other specified values in selected sequence types
• Supports numeric, time, date time, logarithm, geographic coordinate system
• Professional five-star technical support and hundreds of chart examples with support for (GCS) and custom axis scales
rendering technology
• Supports DirectX 11 and DirectX 9
• Support for automatic rendering using WARP without a video card or using a virtual machine
• Support font selection
• Support HiDPI scaling
• Compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems
• Support for anti-aliasing options
Signal filter
Finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) digital signal filtering. Allows filtering out of unwanted signal frequencies. Use any external filter design tool to provide the factors.
30-day free trial
provides free and excellent technical support for every developer who uses the LightningChart and its trial version
Compatibility Requirements
• Supports 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems, or Windows Server 2008 R2 and above
• DirectX 9.0c (shader model 3) graphics adapter, or DirectX11 compatible operating system
• Supports all versions of Visual Studio 2010-2019
• Support. NET Framework v. 4.0 and later versions
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2D charts
● Series type: sampled data (discrete singal), line, scatter points, point-line, freeform point-line, areas, high-low, ploygon, stock (OHLC, candle-stick), bar, band, constant line, intensity grid, intensity mesh
● Real-time monitoring scroll modes: scrolling, sweeping, stepping, oscilloscope style level triggered
● Heatmaps with contours, wireframe, contour labels
● Stencil for rendering intensity series inside polygon, map region
● Annotations, markers, data cursors
● Persistent rendering layers
● Several legend boxes in the same chart
● Linear and logarithmic axes, X axis scale breaks
● Several configurable vertical segments in chart, layered / stacked
● Dozens of properties to control zooming and panning behavior
Product Features
3D charts
● Series type: surface mesh chart, waterfall chart, polygon, rectangular plane, mesh model, graph, 3D pie chart
● Support for perspective and orthogonal 3D cameras, multiple lighting and shadow options through predefined settings
● Import 3D model in. obj format
● Huge surface map with 4096x 4096 resolution (depending on available memory)
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Maps
● Absolute and normalized scale
● Contains dozens of maps: world map, continent map, designated area map
● Multi-level: land, lake, river, road, city, etc
● Support map import from ESRI shapefile data
Smith charts
Allows simultaneous display of multiple parameters such as impedance, admittance, reflection coefficient, scattering parameters, etc.
● Absolute and normalized scale
● Static distance and scale adaptive draw and grid. Automatically generate tick marks and grids when zooming without cluttering the display
● Auto-zoom to fit the entire area
● Zoom and pan with ready-made mouse actions
● Scale values are always visible regardless of magnification
● Data and mesh clipping to the graphics area. The user can display data outside the graph.
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Polar maps
● Series style: area, dotted line
● Unlimited multi-amplitude and angle axes
● Sector
● Label
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Volume rendering
Version 8 is its high-performance volume rendering extension, which is able to interact with the WPF chart library and other 3D objects winforms the chart library. Stereoscopic information is essential in medicine, for example: for cancer detection, visualization of aneurysms, and treatment planning. It is also used for non-destructive material testing by computed tomography or ultrasound. In addition, huge 3D datasets from seismic research can also be visualized through our volume rendering engine.
Acoustic/lightwave graph data rendering
● Support setting independent linear transmission function for each color channel
● Adjust the volume threshold for each color channel based on the voxel brightness
● Support dynamic modification of voxel range
● Manual or automatic sampling rate of volume data
● Three interchangeable options for volume rendering ray function
● Full interaction with traditional 3D models
.NET Interactive Examples
Easily browse through 100+ examples. Run them quickly in the Interactive Examples application, and extract code project in Visual Studio with click of a button.
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
High - Performance
Entirely GPU accelerated .NET charts controls with a full optimization towards performance of charting components. Data visualization SDK that's developed for presenting massive amounts of data with a minimal flickering and delays.
Functionality
Wide range of 2D and advanced 3D .NET charts for the most demanding industries. Fully customizable tools and flexibility .NET developers with the most demanding applications.
Cost - Efficiency
Get the best value for your money. We provide the highest quality chart control and constantly strive to make it accessible for our customers. Read about our LightningChart .NET pricing.
Take a look at our customers success stories
Find out what our customers have said about LightningChart's .NET charts exquisite performance and functionality as well as its comprehensive support.
“We've been using the WPF version of LightningChart for several years now, and we have never regretted this choice. We use it to visualize sound and vibration data in both 2D and 3D. The chart control is packed with features. It's extremely fast, but also robust, very flexible, and highly customizable. The product comes with a huge set of samples with source code, so getting started is easy. Good support is essential when buying a third-party component, and the support given by LightningChart has really been outstanding. I will strongly recommend anyone looking for an advanced chart control to have a look at LightningChart !"
Geir Schjørlien, Software Engineer at Norsonic
May 2020
“Using Arction LightningChart, we were able to deliver a Class III medical research system in under 9 months. Development was very quick thanks to their huge library of examples ."
Patrick Miller, Principal Systems Engineer at Cardialen, Inc.
Michael Hammann, Software Engineering Lead at Blue Sages, Inc.
May 2020
“We are currently using a variation of the horizontal chart and we are satisfied with the many functions provided by LightningChart® .NET.
I want to give a particularly good score for customer support, it has been very professional and helpful ."
By Wanny, DAIMS
April 2020
“We are very satisfied with LightningChart's performance. Despite its lightning-fast speed, we are amazed by the high quality of charts produced. What is worth to mention is their technical support: very responsive, fast and patient. The whole team has high professional knowledge and skills, which is why I am glad about the decision of choosing LightningChart."
By Shengsong Liang, Software engineer in Shanghai Tieda Telecom Polytron Technologies co., Ltd
July 2019
“My project requires 240 XY graphs, and on each chart at least 144000 points needs to be saved. In the beginning I had some speed issues in the developing project, since other software products I tested couldn't provide such big data rendering. LightningChart was exactly what I needed. When I was still evaluating LC, I found out that it didn't get stuck at all even when reading such huge amount of data. GPU acceleration is brilliant! ... "
By Qinglei Zhao, Development Manager in Jilin Yuandian technology co., Ltd
July 2019
“After the evaluation of different open source and commercial charting libraries for WPF, LightningChart was the only one truly GPU accelerated, optimized for real-time rendering. All the other charts evaluated use CPU for rendering, which performance can't compete with GPU accelerated LightningChart and meet the complex business requirements …”
By Mr. Duan, Senior Engineer at Kunyi Electronics Technology (Shanghai) co., Ltd
August 2018
“A few years ago, we developed our own chart control for our NVH project because we couldn't find a suitable chart library on the market. During that period, we faced a lot of problems such as a lack of time and energy to proceed with the development. The final charts were slow in rendering data and couldn't utilize CPU and memory resources efficiently …”
By Professor Yan, Automotive Engineering department in South China University of Technology
November 2018
“We utilize WPF as our UI framework to improve the developers' efficiency. We used other solution which was opensource, but there was some problem in the process of the project, for example, the performance was quite poor, that library didn't support reverse coordinate and so on. After that, we tried LightningChart and one of its alternatives on the market…”
By Xiangdong, the senior software design engineer at Isimpletech
September 2017
“My project was looking to retire our 'in house' graphing package, and look for a 3rd party product to use instead. After weeks of research, no one came close to Arction's graphing package. Its speed and feature set where unparalleled of the almost 12 packages I tried. I 've been developing with them for two years now, and they have a great support forum, and address emails immediately. I recommend them, its a great product ."
greggorob64, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
August 2016
“Products developed with LightningChart are highly effective and exceed our customers' expectations. Compared to other charting components, LightningChart shows significant advantages when presenting a huge amount of data. It allows to visualize and analyses data in a more intuitive way ."
By Zhao Qichao, the CEO of KingFar International Inc
June 2017
“We are SOOO impressive on LC as it is really a product that greatly handles MASSIVE data in our real-time application. No delay nor choppy."
Joel S, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
April 2016
“LightningChart performs extremely well and real-time charts, heatmaps and 3D surfaces are the most advanced in the industry, IMO."
S_Steph, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
March 2016
“As the name suggests LightningChart is lightning fast when it comes to rendering large amounts of data. To add to it, behind this excellent product is a very helpful team who are experts in data visualization. The product is highly customizable and already caters to a vast number of requirements which a user may need …”
By Somesh Chatterjee, Visualization Architect at Oil & Gas industry
November 2016
“Its been a wonderful experience with LightningChart for us. We use it with large volume of data in Oil & Gas sector, and the visualization with LightningChart always meets our users performance expectations ."
Rajesh Bhairampally, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
May 2016
“We have lots of real time data to display over long periods of time, Lightning chart is the first package we have used that can keep up without getting choppy." “Their support has also been fantastic ."
J Lynn Esplin, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
March 2016
“LC performance is simply outstanding. The WPF chart control is robust, mature, also very flexible and highly customizable. "“ I personally recommend LightningChart Ultimate for any data intensive application where no compromise in speed is the critical factor ."
Stefano Toniolo, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
November 2013
“Although I am very hesitant to give our competitors a chance to use this powerful weapon, I am writing this positive review since I am deeply impressed by their professionalism. Thank you, Arction ."
Akiyoshi Shiotani, Review from Visual Studio Marketplace
December 2013
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.
We've made in-depth performance comparisons with different competitors and the results demonstrate why LightningChart .NET charts is the number 1 provider of UWP charts, WPF charts, and Winforms charts.
We constantly strive for the highest performance indicators in .NET charts 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 .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.
Frequently Asked Questions
LightningChart®. NET is a leading data visualization tool designed to meet the needs of software developers, especially in demanding industries like science, medicine, engineering, and aerospace. Its uniqueness lies in being the world's fastest 2D and 3D data visualization SDK for WPF, WinForms, and UWP, offering unparalleled performance, handling billions of data points in real time, and providing over 170 chart types for diverse visualization needs. When you develop a state-of-the-art application and want to get the best charting technology, LightningChart®. NET is the solution.
Absolutely! LightningChart®. NET offers a WinForms chart control specifically designed for creating high-performance charts within your WinForms applications, without having to use any wrappers or adapters.
LightningChart®. NET offers native 2 WPF chart controls: bindable and non-bindable. Bindable chart enables easily bind data and properties in MVVM style, whereas non-bindable use direct methods and properties-based APIs for absolute maximum performance.
LightningChart. NET is a powerful and lightweight charting library compatible with WPF, UWP, and WinForms. Its key features include:
Fast rendering capabilities for high-performance visualization.
• Ability to handle billions of data points in real time.
• Over 170 chart types, including 2D, advanced 3D, Polar, Smith, Geographic maps, and Volume Rendering.
• Extensive customization options for each chart type.
• Responsive and user-friendly interface.
• Wide set of UI frameworks supported: WPF, WinForms, and UWP.
• Dedicated technical support for subscribers.
LightningChart prioritizes performance and caters to developers working with demanding datasets and real-time scenarios. While other libraries might offer simpler APIs or free tiers, they struggle with large datasets or real-time updates, and configurability options.
LightningChart. NET can visualize up to an impressive 1 TRILLION data points in real-time.
LightningChart provides extensive customization options, but direct support for third-party integrations or plugins may vary. However, developers can leverage the library's flexibility to integrate external functionalities as needed.
Yes, LightningChart. NET supports advanced 3D data visualization, including zoomable surface plots, volume rendering, 3D pies/donuts, line charts, bar charts and LiDAR point cloud visualizations, overall offering a comprehensive solution for multidimensional data representation.
LightningChart supports. NET Framework 4.8 and. NET 6.0 for WinForms, WPF (bindable and non-bindable), and UWP applications.
LightningChart offers various licensing options based on development and deployment needs, licence term (perpetual/non-perpetual), developer count, floating licenses, site licenses, and functionality required. You can find more details about licences here.
While LightningChart. NET is primarily designed for desktop applications (WPF, WinForms, UWP), there is a separate solution line, LightningChart JS, specifically tailored for web applications using JavaScript.
LightningChart. NET is entirely GPU-accelerated and optimized for performance, providing smooth and efficient chart rendering with minimal flickering and delays, even when dealing with large datasets. LightningChart has pioneered GPU accelerated charting since 2007.
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LightningChart. NET Case studies
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Vibration Research
FXVolQuant: Data driven edge for foreign exchange traders
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