Lautan Coding

The other day, I needed to display a simple time-series chart inside a little tool I was writing. Now, as we know the web has a slew of cool charting controls to pick from including chart.js and amcharts.js which I have used in the past and are great. But those libraries were out of the question because I needed to include the chart inside a WinForms application. Now, in the past I played with the Charting Controls from Microsoft and whilst they are good, that suite of controls has not been updated for an ice-age! So I decided to have a look to see what the landscape looks like for charting controls in the WinForms / WPF arena which is where I came across OxyPlot . OxyPlot is a cross-platform library for .NET and supports WinForms, WPF, Xamarin and UWP (but let's be honest, Who is targeting universal windows apps?). What makes OxyPlot interesting is that their main page says the project is supported by the likes of JetBrains and Xamarin to mention just a few! Thos