With these tutorials, it's easy to start programming with LightningChart SDK. As prerequisites, basic knowledge Visual Studio and C# or Visual Basic is assumed. LightningChart products are installed and pre-built demo application is found functional.
Please see the LightningChart Trial SDK's Demo application and it its source code for more examples. Please don't hesitate to ask advice from our Technical support.
Installing Arction components into Visual Studio toolbox
LightningChart Basic
- Open Visual studio. Create a new WinForms project.
- If you are using Visual Studio 2010, set correct target framework to .NET Framework 3.5 (C#: Project / Options / Application / Target framework, VB.NET: Project / Settings / Compile / Advanced compile options / Target framework).
- Right-click on Toolbox, select Add Tab and give name "Arction".
- In Choose Toolbox items window, Select .NET Framework components page. Click Browse...
- Browse Arction.LightningChartBasic.dll, from the folder you installed the components (typically c:\Program files (x86)\Arction\LightningChart Basic), and click open.
LightningChart Ultimate
The components are automatically installed into Visual Studio toolbox by the LightningChart Ultimate SDK installer.If you are using Visual Studio 2010, set correct target framework as follows:
- C#: Open from the main menu: Project / Options / Application / Target framework.
- VB.NET: Open from the main menu: Project / Settings / Compile / Advanced compile options / Target framework
- For LightningChart Ultimate .NET2 edition: Select .NET Framework 2.0 - 3.5
- For LightningChart Ultimate .NET4 edition: Select .NET Framework 4
Note! The components will appear in the toolbox only when correct target .NET framework is selected.
Do not select a Client Profile option!
Tutorials for LightningChart Ultimate
These tutorials are made for LightningChart Ultimate, but in general, they are valid also for LightningChart Pro and Basic, by removing .ViewXY where they exist in these tutorials. Note that Pro and Basic do not have all series types, see Product comparison table for details. The documents are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Plotting data with point-line series, Visual Studio 2008, C#
This document describes how to use LightningChart PointLineSeries series to plot variable interval data.
Real-time monitoring with SampleData series, Visual Studio 2008, C#
This document describes how to use LightningChart SampleDataSeries series to plot fixed interval data. The data is generated with SignalGenerator component on the fly.
Tutorials for LightningChart Basic
These tutorials are made for LightningChart Basic.
Plotting data with point-line series, Visual Studio 2008, C#
This document describes how to use LightningChart PointLineSeries series to plot variable interval data.
Plotting of timer-generated data with point-line series, Visual Studio 2010, C#
This document describes how to use LightningChart to plot timer-generated data in realtime. The chart starts scrolling when it's collected full, and starts destroying out-scrolled data automatically. This is a simple strip-chart recorder application.
Plotting data with point-line series, Visual Studio 2010, VB.NET
This document describes how to use LightningChart PointLineSeries series to plot variable interval data.