Microcharts VS ScottPlot

Open source and cross platform: Microcharts

Microcharts is one of the most well-known open source charting libraries for Xamarin and many people, including me, would like to use it with .NET MAUI. Work on .NET MAUI support by Microcharts should arrive soon but while the PR is not merged, I want to show how to already use Microcharts with .NET MAUI.

Why not just save the chart as an image an then add it to the PDF?

I was excited about a new charting tool, but it seems it's in beta, and not much activity for several months. Lead posted about working on a v1 release in 2020. (https://github.com/microcharts-dotnet/Microcharts/issues/208)

Have you looked at https://github.com/microcharts-dotnet/Microcharts

That's correct. Personally, I haven't tested SVG rendering but I know that others have incorporated Skia-related libraries with great success, e.g. when integrating charts with the Microcharts library. At some point, I should add an article in the documentation about it 😁

Interested to hear who's using Microcharts and for those using it what have been your experiences? Do you feel this is as good as SyncFusion for charting, have you come across problems with using Microcharts, do you use it but you modified some charts, or maybe are you coding up your own charts with SkiaSharp?

The pull request from which this code is based on: https://github.com/ScottPlot/ScottPlot/pull/2221

ScottPlot is another .NET option besides OxyPlot and LiveChartsv2. There are a few libs that wrap matplotlib from Python like MatplotlibCS if that's your thing. You could also WebView2 and d3.js for an offline app. It really depends on what you're producing charts for: a highly stylized figure might not be appropriate for an academic publication, interactivity may be important, a very specific type of chart out-of-the-box might be important, etc.

I know you said no 3rd party controls but https://scottplot.net/ is a free and open-source plotting library for .NET which you can use from WPF. The Github page is here https://github.com/ScottPlot/ScottPlot

I dont know what type of visualisations you need but if you are doing a simple WinForms app you cant beat ScottPlot

I was mostly wondering about the charting library itself, in isolation of QuestPDF. ScottPlot is the other one I was considering besides microcharts. Since you mentioned using QuestPDF in production for reporting, I was wondering if perhaps you also used any of the OSS charting libraries in building those reports and if you have any insights you can share. Docs and demos are a good start when picking one, but lived experience is very valuable.