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Installing and Uninstalling SciChart WPF

Installing from the MSI Installer

Are you new to SciChart? Check out our most popular pages to get started below:

Download the latest installer from www.scichart.com/downloads. To access this page you will need to register a user account at scichart.com. This will be the account used for your tech support as well as licensing account.

Unzip and double click the exe

If any warnings present themselves, OK these and give permission for the installer to run.

Click through the installer

After installation, you will be presented with www.scichart.com/getting-started-with-scichart - a quickstart page with all of the quick links to our documentation.

The WPF Examples can be found by searching 'SciChart' in the Windows start menu

Uninstalling the SciChart WPF Trial

If you have installed the SciChart WPF Trial from MSI Installer and wish to uninstall it, please follow these steps to Uninstalling an Application on Windows.

Next with the Programs and features dialog open, select SciChart SDK and uninstall it.

Referencing the SciChart DLLs after installation

The SciChart WPF Dlls can be found in the installation directory, which defaults to C:/Program Files (x86)/SciChart Ltd/SciChart SDK

When you start a Visual Studio project you will need to reference the following DLLs:

For SciChart 2D, DLL References Required are

  • SciChart.Core.dll
  • SciChart.Data.dll
  • SciChart.Drawing.dll
  • SciChart.Drawing.DirectX.dll (Optional, if using the SciChart2D DirectX Renderer Plugin)
  • SciChart.Charting.dll

For SciChart 3D, DLL References Required are

  • SciChart.Core.dll
  • SciChart.Data.dll
  • SciChart.Drawing.dll
  • SciChart.Drawing.DirectX.dll (Optional, if using the SciChart2D DirectX Renderer Plugin)
  • SciChart.Charting.dll
  • SciChart.Charting3D.dll

In addition to an installer, we also have a private NuGet feed hosted by https://www.myget.org, which supports Visual Studio 2012-2019.

NOTE: The NuGet feed delivers the SciChart DLLs only. If you are a licensed customer, you will still need to activate (once) using the SciChart Licensing Wizard found in the installer.

The SciChart NuGet gallery is here: https://www.myget.org/gallery/abtsoftware Here you can find the feed details.

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Installing SciChart2D From NuGet

To install the SciChart NuGet Package, open the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio and enter the following command

// In Visual Studio 2012, 2013

Install-Package SciChart –Source https://www.myget.org/F/abtsoftware/api/v2

// In Visual Studio 2015 or later

Install-Package SciChart –Source https://www.myget.org/F/abtsoftware/api/v3/index.json

This will install the SciChart WPF 2D package, which includes SciChart.Core.dll, SciChart.Data.dll, SciChart.Drawing.dll and SciChart.Charting.dll

Installing SciChart2D DirectX From NuGet

To install the SciChart2D components including DirectX, open the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio and enter the following command

// In Visual Studio 2012, 2013

Install-Package SciChart.DirectX –Source https://www.myget.org/F/abtsoftware/api/v2

// In Visual Studio 2015 or later

Install-Package SciChart.DirectX –Source https://www.myget.org/F/abtsoftware/api/v3/index.json

This package has a downstream dependency on SciChart and SharpDX, an open source Managed DirectX library licensed under the MIT license.

Installing SciChart3D from NuGet

To install the SciChart3D components, open the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio and enter the following command

// In Visual Studio 2012, 2013

Install-Package SciChart3D –Source https://www.myget.org/F/abtsoftware/api/v2

// In Visual Studio 2015 or later

Install-Package SciChart3D –Source https://www.myget.org/F/abtsoftware/api/v3/index.json

This package has a downstream dependency on SciChart.

NOTE: SciChart.Charting.3D.dll is a mixed (.NET / C++) DLL and requires the Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable to be installed on developer and end-user machines. When redistributing your application, you will need to ensure that the target PCs have the Visual C++ 2013 Runtime. You can find the Redistributable here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/download/details.aspx?id=40784

Troubleshooting NuGet

If you get stuck, we also have a full walk-through on how to setup NuGet at the page Getting Nightly Builds with NuGet

Installing from GitHub

If you are a  SciChart Source-Code Customer you can get access to our Git-Hub repository by going to www.scichart.com/profile and linking your Github.com username with SciChart after you have activated your developer license.

For more details on how to access SciChart via Github, please see https://www.scichart.com/github-repository-for-scichart-source-code-customers

Once you have done that, you should be able to access the SciChart WPF or SciChart 3D WPF repositories.

NOTE: Both these links will show HTTP404 unless you have completed the steps above to activate your GitHub Access

The source-code can be checked out in SVN client, Git client or downloaded as a zip. The repository is read-only however, you can create forks (branches) and make modifications in there.

IMPORTANT! if your support-expires and you do not renew a SciChart subscription, we will have to remove your access to the github repository. You can keep any code you received during your support-window but any forks you created will be deleted and cannot be recovered. This is a github limitation and we are unable to workaround it. Please take a backup of any forks (branches) of the SciChart source before your support-expires if you do not intend to renew.

 

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