What is the best way to make a graph in WPF? (or in general that would apply to WPF as well)

Question

So I am making a piece of software in WPF, and I want to be able to make graphs out of the data I am storing. Just line graphs with x and y axises. Ideally I would want them to have a nice elegant simplicity to them.

I know WPF doesn't come with graphs, and I have tried ZedGraph in a WinForms project, but I thought frankly it looked ugly.

What is the best way to make simple, elegant graphs in WPF?

Answer 1

Microsoft purchased some of the IP from Dundas and supplied their winforms/asp.net charts as Microsoft Chart Controls

Since they will render as images they should be integrate without too much effort.

I have used the underlying dundas functionality and like it so would assume that these are respectable free controls.

Answer 2

You can get the Silverlight Chart Controls running on WPF, they're quite nice (and free).

Answer 3

Try VisiFire. It looks good. It works well. And it is open source with a commercial license option.

Answer 4

The WPF Toolkit is available. It is free from CodePlex. It contains some nice charting classes.

It can be downloaded here. There is some commentary here.