Showcase of the Best WPF Charts and Graphs Demos

WPF Charts are indispensable for visualizing and interacting with big data sets, especially in industries where performance, precision, and customization are critical. The WPF framework is a preferred choice for developing bespoke, complex applications in engineering, scientific research, medical fields, and other domains requiring high-performance data visualizations.

A well-designed WPF Chart Library does more than display data—it empowers developers to create dynamic, intuitive dashboards in C# .NET and MVVM, tailored to handle the complexities of real-time analytics and actionable insights. These libraries enable the development of custom solutions, perfect for meeting the unique demands of specialized applications.

Whether you’re monitoring financial markets, monitoring patient health, managing industrial operations, or building dashboards for power stations, WPF Charts offer the flexibility and power needed to bring intricate data to life. Their combination of performance, adaptability, and ease of use makes them the go-to choice for professionals tackling complex, data-heavy challenges.

In this guide, we explore the best WPF Charts and Graphs that stand out in the realm of .NET development, demonstrating how they can transform dense big data into captivating and informative visual narratives.

Explore our Advanced WPF Charts & Graphs Examples for Various Applications

Realtime WPF Audio/Spectrum Analyzer Demo

The Spectrogram Demo shows how to mix a 2D line chart showing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFI) of a waveform, and also show a spectrogram (scrolling heatmap) of the same data. The scrolling heatmap is achieved using a SciChartSurface with a FastHeatMapRenderableSeries and by updating the data on a Heatmap2DArrayData Series. The result is a smooth 30FPS scrolling heatmap, allowing you to visually inspect your spectrum data. 

Big-Data 1-Billion Datapoint WPF Chart Demo

 Fifo 1 Billion Points Demo

Our 1 billion points demo showcases the incredible performance when rendering streaming (scrolling) line charts. It showcases that SciChart is capable of rendering 1 billion (1,000,000,000) points in real-time at 60 fps.

From real-time monitoring to visualizing the output of telemetry sensors, this chart renders huge data sets with speed and precision. Leveraging the FIFO series, the chart automatically discards old data points once a predefined number of points is met. This type of data series is extremely efficient for scrolling charts, where you do not care about discarded (off-screen) data.

This demo is possible due to our newly introduced Visual Xccelerator(TM) engine, a completely in-house, proprietary, cross-platform C++ game engine, fully GPU-accelerated using pixel and vertex shaders, which we’ve built layers on top of to create 2D/D charts. With the SciChart WPF Xccelerated Edition, you can achieve up to 100x Faster WPF Charts.

Digital Logic Analyzer Demo

The WPF Digital Logic Analyzer Demo captures and displays multiple signals from a piece of hardware, such as a Data Acquisition Card or Logic Analyzer. 

In the above example, you can see multiple channels with randomly generated binary data with a common XAxis. It is implemented using the MVVM pattern to display multi-surface pane rendering FastLineRenderableSeries that use UniformXyDataSeries as a data source. 

Requiring Y-Values only, this DataSeries type reduces memory consumption. 

With all this in mind, it is possible to display tens of billions of points on a single view. This specific demo loads up to 64 billion data points with 64GB RAM. 100 billion data points are also possible with 128GB of RAM.

ChartModifiers also provide interactivity to create a more engaging chart experience. We support the following interactions, and much more besides:

• [CTRL + MouseWheel] to scroll channels up and down
• [SHIFT + MouseWheel] to change the height of channels
• [Mousewheel) to zoom channels data in and out

 Vital Signs ECG/EKG Patient Monitor Demo

In this WPF vital signs ECG/EKG monitor demo, you can see how the Line Series is used to draw real-time FIFO data for use in a medical context. The example simulates four channels that enable health professionals to monitor heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, SP02 blood oxygen and volumetric flow simultaneously in one real-time ECG/EKG data visualization.

SciChart provides the shortcuts your development team needs, providing rich, real-time, high performance and reliable charts for medical and healthcare applications. There is also the Scatter Series used for a single point at the beginning of the lines. The fading effect is achieved with the Palette Provider API.

Building WPF Charts with MVVM

If you want to improve code reuse opportunities across your application and create a clean distinction between your user interface and application logic, you may prefer to build your WPF charts with MVVM. SciChart has specific demos for this, including examples of how to bind multiple charts and add a zoom history function.

The above demo demonstrates how to undo/redo Zoom and Pan (Zoom History) by using the ZoomHistoryManager type in an MVM application. The ZoomHistoryManager is attached to the chart via the SciChartSurface.Z.comHistoryManager property.

All zoom and pan operations then become tracked, and you can undo or redo the zoom function via the ZoomHistoryManager.Undo and ZoomHistoryManager.Redo methods.

In MVM applications, you can also bind to and execute the ZoomHistoryManager.UndoCommand and ZoomHistoryManager.RedoCommand.

WPF Chart Types

With 35 2D and 15 3D WPF charts, SciChart doesn’t just support out-of-the-box graphs but also enables endless customizations so you can visualize large data sets however you want. 

A WPF animation API and interactive chart applications let you create engaging visuals that help the end user glean the information they require. It’s all about making data accessible and visually appealing without draining your development resources. 

SciChart’s easy-to-use interface and guides ensure developers have all the tools they need to get started and produce the best WPF charts and graphs quickly and efficiently. We have hundreds of forums and documentation to help developers of any level build the best WPF charts and graphs with ease.  

You’ll also have access to a theme manager for styling changes and a powerful annotations API, helping you present data in the most effective way for your business, stakeholders, and end users.

 Who Uses SciChart?

SciChart’s fully customizable WPF Charts are used by investment banks, space agencies, top Formula 1 teams and companies in the tech, medical, engineering, electrical, and oil and gas domains. As you can see from the showcase above, we support a diverse range of customized features to help your users get the most out of their data.

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SciChart is a WPF Chart Library available with a free 30-day trial where you can try out the library commercially or use it in a non-commercial application. If you have a question or would like to give feedback, contact us.

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