Installation and first chart

Open visual studio 2022, select "Create a new project", then select the WPF Application template.

Name the project and the solution WpfSample, select .NET 8.0 as the target framework.

Install from NuGet

Now install LiveCharts from NuGet. If you need more help to install a package from NuGet, please follow this guide.

LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.WPF

Create a View Model

After the package is installed add a new class to your project as follows:

using LiveChartsCore;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Drawing.Geometries;

namespace WpfSample;

public class ViewModel
{
    public ISeries[] Series { get; set; } = [
        new ColumnSeries<int>(3, 4, 2),
        new ColumnSeries<int>(4, 2, 6),
        new ColumnSeries<double, DiamondGeometry>(4, 3, 4)
    ];
}

Add the chart control to the UI

Finally go to the MainWindow.xaml file and add the LiveCharts namespace, don't forget to add also the namespace of your ViewModel class, then add a CartesianChart control and bind the Series property:

<!-- mark -skip 3 -take 2 -->
<Window x:Class="MyApp"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WPFSample"
    xmlns:lvc="clr-namespace:LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.WPF;assembly=LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.WPF">

    <Window.DataContext>
        <local:ViewModel /><!-- mark -->
    </Window.DataContext>

    <lvc:CartesianChart<!-- mark -->
        Series="{Binding Series}"><!-- mark -->
    </lvc:CartesianChart><!-- mark -->

</Window>

And that's it, start your application and you will see the chart in your main window.

Configure themes, fonts or mappers (Optional)

Optionally you could configure LiveCharts to add a theme, register a global font, enable right to left tooltips or a custom mapper for a type, when you need a non-Latin font you must register a typeface so SkiaShap can render the text correctly, add the following code when your application starts:

Go to the Solution Explorer and browse for App.xaml.cs file, then override the OnStartup method as follows.

using System.Windows;
using LiveChartsCore; // mark

namespace WPFSample;

/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for App.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class App : Application
{
    protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnStartup(e);

        LiveCharts.Configure(config => // mark
            config // mark
                   // you can override the theme 
                   // .AddDarkTheme() // mark 

                // In case you need a non-Latin based font, you must register a typeface for SkiaSharp
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('汉')) // <- Chinese // mark
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('あ')) // <- Japanese // mark
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('헬')) // <- Korean // mark
                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('Ж'))  // <- Russian // mark

                //.HasGlobalSKTypeface(SKFontManager.Default.MatchCharacter('أ'))  // <- Arabic // mark
                //.UseRightToLeftSettings() // Enables right to left tooltips // mark

                // finally register your own mappers
                // you can learn more about mappers at:
                // https://livecharts.dev/docs/wpf/2.0.0-rc5/Overview.Mappers

                // here we use the index as X, and the population as Y // mark
                .HasMap<City>((city, index) => new(index, city.Population)) // mark
            // .HasMap<Foo>( .... ) // mark
            // .HasMap<Bar>( .... ) // mark
            ); // mark
    }

    public record City(string Name, double Population);
}