.NET Interactive Notebook Quickstart

.NET Interactive Notebooks (polyglot notebooks) allow programmers to work with data in an interactive environment. To get started using ScottPlot to display data in a .NET notebook,

Create a new .NET Notebook

Install VS Code
Install the VS Code Polyglot Notebooks extension
Press CTRL + SHIFT + P to open the command dialogue
Select Polyglot Notebook: Create Default Notebook
Choose the .ipynb extension and select the C# language

Add the ScottPlot Package

Add this to the top of your notebook:

#r "nuget:ScottPlot, 5.0.*"

Linux users may require an additional package:

#r "nuget:SkiaSharp.NativeAssets.Linux.NoDependencies"

Prepare a Plot Viewer

using Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Formatting;
Formatter.Register(typeof(ScottPlot.Plot), (p, w) => 
    w.Write(((ScottPlot.Plot)p).GetPngHtml(400, 300)), HtmlFormatter.MimeType);

Plot Data

// create sample data
double[] dataX = new double[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
double[] dataY = new double[] { 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 };

// plot the data
ScottPlot.Plot plt = new();
plt.Add.Scatter(dataX, dataY);

// display the plot
plt