I am trying to get some charting and visualizations going in F#. Unfortunately, the book I am using refers to a lot of .dll files that have been superseded with the advent of Windows 7. I am using Visual Studio 2010, F# 2.0.
What would be a useful replacement for “XYGraph.dll” for doing some simple graphs of mathematical functions?
Searching MSDN does not yield any results.
I’m not familiar with “XYGraph.dll”, so I’m not sure what were all the features that it had.
However, there is a MSDN section that discusses Visualizing Data with .NET Charts in F#. It covers .NET Chart Controls (available in .NET 4.0 and as a sperate download for .NET 3.5) and FSharpChart library, which is an F#-friendly wrapper for this library (as well as some other options like Excel).
The FSharpChart library seems to be the standard (and the easiest way) to visualize data from F#.
As far as I know, the only big limitation of .NET Chart Controls (and FSharpChart) is that they don’t work in Silverlight. I’m not sure if that was supported by XYGraph.dll