Getting Started with SCICHART WPF

Quickest of the Quick Start Guide

Ok so you’ve downloaded and installed the SciChart WPF SDK Trial. Great! Now what?

Check out this Quickest of the QuickStart Guide below which shows you how to open the Examples Suite and see what SciChart can do.

01 Learning By Example – The Examples Suite

SciChart Installer features a rich examples suite with over 125+ 2D & 3D WPF Chart examples, including full text search, source-code exports and more. You can find out more at the SciChart WPF Examples Suite page.

We also have a full walkthrough of starting and using the Examples Suite in the SciChart Documentation.

02 Learning by Tutorial – The SciChart WPF Tutorials

We now have a full set of tutorials online, to walk you through the basics of getting to know SciChart WPF. These can be found below:

• WPF Chart Tutorial 01 – Referencing SciChart DLLs (5 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 02 – Creating a SciChartSurface (5 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 03 – Adding Series to a Chart (5 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 04 – Adding Zooming, Panning Behavior (10 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 05 – Adding Tooltips and Legends (10 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 06 – Adding Realtime Updates (15 minutes) uses some features from SciChart v4.2, which is in QA now and available on the nightly build feed only
• WPF Chart Tutorial 07 – Adding Annotations (10 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 08 – Adding Multiple Axis (10 minutes)
• WPF Chart Tutorial 09 – Linking Multiple Charts (15 minutes)

03 Viewing and Exporting Example Source Code

Our examples suite allows you to not only view source-code but also export individual examples to stand alone Visual Studio project.

If that’s not enough, the entire Examples Suite source-code as well as the tutorials source is now available on Github as a public repository you can clone.

You can find out more in the page SciChart WPF Examples, Tutorials Source now on Github.

We are also publishing next major versions as an early access preview to this channel.

04 – Ok Great! So Where is the Documentation?

All of our documentation is online. Please see the following resources to help you get started.

• SciChart Documentation at SciChart WPF SDK Documentation (Also viewable from Homepage Menu -> WPF Charts -> Documentation)
• 9 Excellent Tutorials at SciChart WPF Tutorials
• SciChart Community FAQs (Forums) at www.scichart.com/questions
• 125+ WPF Chart Examples with Source-Code at www.scichart.com/wpf-chart-examples
• Site Search Engine at search.scichart.com

05 – Great, but I Have a Question about …

We believe you will not find a better-supported WPF Chart than SciChart!

If you have a question, please try our new Site Search Engine, or, dare we say it, Google! This has been custom-built to search the Forums and Knowledgebase, giving you relevant and accurate search results. There are thousands of pages on the SciChart site with content to search from, so if you have a query about SciChart WPF Tooltips, or SciChart Licensing, just try the search and you should be able to find something useful.

But if that’s not enough, you can Contact us anytime and one of our staff will get back to you. We aim to answer all requests within 1-business day.

Thanks and enjoy!
[SciChart HQ]