Released: Dec 11, 2025

Updates in 2025.2

Features

• Fast Area Series:
  • A new Fast Area series has been added to the existing set of fast series. It enables real-time visualization of extremely large datasets - up to millions of data points - in both 2D and 3D area charts. This is achieved through extensive GPU utilization for computational tasks. The series supports both 2D and 3D modes, as well as per-data-point color customization.
• Area Series Step Mode:
  • The standard Area series now supports multiple step modes: Horizontal Vertical (HV...

Released: May 20, 2025

Updates in 2025.1

Features

• Added Support for .NET 9.0:
  • NOV now has a native build for .NET 9.0, in addition to the existing support for .NET Framework 4.7.2+ and .NET 8.0.
• Fast Bar, Fast Line, and Fast Point Series:
  • This new set of fast series enables real-time data visualization of extremely large datasets - up to millions of data points - by leveraging GPU acceleration for many computations. All three series support both 2D and 3D visualization modes, as well as per-data-point color information, making them...

Released: Jun 5, 2024

Updates in 2024.1

Features

• Added support for Microsoft .NET 8.0 - NOV now has a native build for .NET 8.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2+, NET 6.0, and .NET 7.0. NOV Mac projects have been migrated from Xamarin.Mac to .NET 8.0 and can be used with the following IDEs on Mac:
  • Visual Studio Code with the C# DevKit plugin.
  • JetBrains Rider.
• This release adds the following new features:
  • Surface Series - Added support for Grid Surface, Mesh Surface, Triangulated Surface, and Vertex Surface...

Released: May 16, 2023

Updates in 2023.1

Features

• Added support for Microsoft .NET 7.0 - NOV now fully supports .NET Core 7.0, in addition to the supported builds for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2+, .NET Core 5.0 and .NET Core 6.0.
• Added a new 3D rendering engine available in WPF and WinForms editions. The new engine features hit testing along with hardware-accelerated rendering and anti-aliasing.
• Added several new 3D charting types, including:
  • 3D Area.
  • 3D Bar.
  • 3D Bubble.
  • 3D Error Bar.
  • 3D High Low.
  • 3D Line.
  • 3D Point.
  • 3D Range.
  • 3D...

Released: Oct 10, 2022

Updates in 2022.3

Features

• Added support for Microsoft .NET Core 6.0 - NOV now has a native build for .NET Core 6.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework 4.7.2 and .NET Core 5.0.
• Added support for NuGet packages - NOV has extended support for NuGet based deployment, with added NuGet packages for every major component in the suite, as well as for the entire suite.
• NOV Examples for VB.NET - Every example now includes a new tab with the VB.NET code of the example. Users can also export every NOV...

Released: Jun 9, 2022

Updates in 2022.2

Features

General NOV Improvements

• Support for Blazor / WebAssembly - NOV has full support for Blazor / WebAssembly. The entire functionality of NOV can be used on the client-side through C# or JavaScript.
• Support hardware acceleration in WPF - The WPF rendering has been significantly improved and NOV can render directly to a DirectX image using hardware-accelerated rendering, which dramatically improves the rendering performance of the applications using NOV.
• Localization Improvements...

Released: Feb 10, 2022

Updates in 2022.1

Features

• Support for .NET Core 5.0 - NOV has support for Microsoft .NET Core 5.0 as well as legacy .NET Framework 4.7.2 and above.
• Support for Visual Studio 2022 - NOV fully integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 for both .NET Core and legacy .NET framework projects. All controls integrate with the Visual Studio toolbox automatically.
• Improved Design-Time Support and Project Templates - Improved Visual Studio Design-Time support for all NOV controls.
• Theme Editor - A new theme editor...

Released: Mar 17, 2021

Updates in 2021.1

Features

General NOV Improvements

• Hardware Accelerated Rendering - This release includes a new hardware-accelerated rendering engine based on OpenGL. This greatly improves NOV rendering speed and responsiveness in all UI-related tasks. All controls in the suite benefit directly from this new feature which is enabled by default. If the current hardware does not support hardware acceleration the rendering falls back to software rendering automatically.
• Better Microsoft Visual Studio Integration...

Released: Dec 9, 2019

Updates in 2019.1

Features

• Improved heat map contour generation.
• Export of vector images in Windows Metafile (WMF) and Enhanced Metafile (EMF, EMF+) format.

Released: Apr 13, 2017

Updates in 2017.1

Features

• NOV UI Improvements:
  • Mac OS X El Capitan theme - a new UI theme which mimics the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan look and feel.
  • Dark theme - a new UI theme which uses dark colors.
  • Core Touch - added is core touch support that allows you to track multi-touch events in NOV UI.
• Open Vision Framework Improvements:
  • Added support for .ttc (TrueType Collection Files).
  • Added support for cursive fonts.
  • Better handling of RTL scripts.
• Support for Visual Studio 2017