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Hello,
I'm working on Windows Desktop Application with Xaml Island. I want to create and show charts (Pie chart and Bar chart) in my application. I'm not able to find any strait forward way to do this.
Can you give some suggestion on artifacts/api/third-party-libraries that I can use for this?
Thanks.
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Any updates about this? Does @Castorix31 's reply make sense?
Hello,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
You could use win32 api to create and show charts.
The primary function used to draw pie charts is the AngleArc function. You could refer to the Doc:Drawing a Pie Chart
If you want to create a Bar chart you could try to use Rectangle function.
Thank you.
Jeanine
These works fine. Thanks for suggesting.
However, since this is like creating from scratch, it wouldn't be easy to add animation and user interaction of any kind if we want to, right?
Yes, if you use these Apis, it wouldn't be easy to add animation and user interaction of any kind if you want to.
Unless, as Castorix31 said, you need to draw them by yourself.
There are free Nuget packages like LiveCharts2 or OxyPlot (H.OxyPlot.WinUI).
Test with H.OxyPlot.WinUI :
Or you can draw them yourself with PathFigure class or Direct2D/Win2D
LiveCharts2 or OxyPlot will only work for UWP or WinUI3 apps, right?
I want to use it in Windows Desktop Application with Xaml Island.
DesktopWindowXamlSource is used in Desktop apps to host WinUI 3 content
https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK-Samples/tree/main/Samples/Islands
I tried to install OxyPlot NuGet package, but it is giving below error:
Could not install package 'H.OxyPlot.WinUI 0.9.30'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets 'native,Version=v0.0', but the package does not contain any assembly references or content files that are compatible with that framework. For more information, contact the package author.
I also found this while looking for the reason behind this error. It seems like we can not use it in WinRT/C++ project.
H.OxyPlot.WinUI 0.9.30 is the version for a WinUI 3 project
There are other versions (I had tested it in Winforms desktop app before)
@Castorix31 I tried to install older versions of H.OxyPlot.WinUI but that resulted in the same error message while installing.
Can you please share the version that you tried and I can use it in my case (Windows Desktop Application with Xaml Island)?
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