LightningChart .NET Releases
Released: Mar 18, 2026
Updates in v12.5.1
Features
- Added support for 24-bit and 32-bit WAV audio files for SignalReader and AudioOutput components.
- Provided more detailed information about mouse-events over LegendBox.
- Added public method GetTitleText() for series-base class.
- PrintPreview dialog to be revised/improved.
- Added AutoPadding property for ViewXY.
- Added support for LegendBox titles with multiple lines.
- Added LegendBox property, VerticalTitlesGap, which controls minimum gap between LegendBox's titles.
Released: Oct 24, 2025
Updates in v12.4.1
Features
- Added more customization options for Data Cursor (e.g. Result Table rendering).
- Added Annotation (readonly) Size property.
- Added additional option for customizing Palette labels.
- Added logarithmic and equidistant Palette steps drawing.
- Added
LegendBoxOrderIndex to various chart series to changes their order in LegendBox.
- Added
Pan property for ZoomBar user-control.
- Added lightweight version of ZoomBar,
LiteZoomBar - less interactive but consumes less memory.
- Added axis property...
Released: Jun 12, 2025
Updates in v12.3.1
Features
- Improved line-drawing precision to 14-15 digits on ViewXY. Now ensures accurate rendering of line series, even when the visible axis range is as small as a fraction of a pico-unit (10-¹²). This enhancement enables significantly deeper zoom levels.
- 'HERE map' rendering services upgraded to use higher quality images as default. A new public Size property has been introduced, allowing users to select lower-quality images to accelerate map tile downloads when needed.
- Improved auto-margin...
Released: Mar 26, 2025
Updates in v12.2.1
Features
- New .NET Target Framework
- Updated from .NET 6.0 to .NET 8.0 to ensure native support for the LightningChart control within .NET projects and align with Microsoft's support policy for the .NET framework.
- Now compiled for .NET 8.0, it is compatible with projects in .NET 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0.
- A separate library build is available for projects utilizing .NET Framework 4.8 and later.
- HERE Map Rendering Services Upgrade
- The HERE map rendering services have been updated to utilize HERE Raster...
Released: Oct 10, 2024
Updates in v12.1.1
Features
- HexagonShape available for Points and Markers - The hexagon shape is now available for the Points (series.PointStyle.Shape) and Markers (Symbol.Shape) properties. Like other geometrical shapes, the Hexagon shape allows body coloring with a two-color gradient, as well as with a separate color for the border. The hexagon shape also supports export to raster/bitmap or vector images.
- Improved 3D Interactions - In this release, 3D interactions like zooming, rotation and panning have been...
Released: Jun 10, 2024
Updates in v12.0.1.1
Features
- New Features
- ImageLayer (Improves responsiveness) - a new chart layer is introduced for accumulating smaller bitmaps - ImageLayer is a very large image layer, which can be gradually filled with smaller images. The accumulation of smaller images is done in the background thread, thus keeping Chart UI thread responsive and fast (for example zooming could be done while images are loaded). While compounding ImageLayer from many smaller bitmaps requires a lot of memory, the chart itself...
Released: Feb 13, 2024
Updates in v11.0.1.1
Features
- New .NET target framework
- In the previous versions of LightningChart .NET, the .NET target framework was 4.6.2 or earlier. But, in this release, LightningChart .NET will be targeting Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 6.0. The new built editions will be available for:
- WinForms.
- WPF non-bindable.
- MVVM bindable version of WPF.
- .NET Interactive Examples App
- Improved the LightningChart .NET Interactive Examples app. You can now extract example code as .NET 6.0 projects.
- Example code can...
Released: Jan 8, 2024
Updates in v10.5.1.1
Features
- Added support for Microsoft .NET 8.
Released: Jun 16, 2023
Updates in v10.5.1
Features
- DataCursor functionality enabled for all 3D, Polar and Smith series. DataCursor allows the user to explore a series and the closest value to the mouse cursor will be automatically tracked.
- 3D TransparencyRenderMode property is now available for 3D surface series. The new feature helps to mitigate artifacts and improve translucent object handling in the chart.
- SurfaceGridSeries3D.
- SurfaceMeshSeries3D.
- WaterfallSeries3D.
- PointLineSeries3D.
- LightningChart now offers 3 options for handling...
Released: Feb 8, 2023
Updates in v10.4.1
Features
- DataCursor: new feature for automated data tracking in the chart.
- Now, all the ViewXY series can be explored using DataCursor. This is a new class/object that shows the series data value at or near the mouse position.
- The DataCursor class consists of X&Y axis labels, a result table, a color bar, and haircross lines. Each individual item of the DataCursor can be configured.
- To avoid any backward compatibility breaks, the visible property of the DataCursor is disabled by default. Each...
