We are currently in the process of writing a software paper on Plotly.NET. in the meantime, if you are using Plotly.NET for your research please cite the zenodo archive:

Plotly.NET provides functions for generating and rendering plotly.js charts in .NET programming languages 📈🚀.

• Installation
  • For applications and libraries
  • For scripting
  • For dotnet interactive notebooks
  • Nightly builds
• Documentation
  • Getting started
  • Full library reference
• Develop
  • build
  • docs
• Contributors
• Library license

The most recent Plotly.NET package is .

Plotly.NET also provides several extension packages:

Package Name	Plotly.NET.Interactive	Plotly.NET.ImageExport	Plotly.NET.CSharp
Description	Interactive formatting extension for .NET interactive notebooks	programmatic static image export	idiomatic C# API. Note that you can use the core API in C#, this package just removes some friction at some places.
Nuget

• dotnet CLI

dotnet add package Plotly.NET <version>

• paket CLI

paket add Plotly.NET --version <version>

• package manager

Install-Package Plotly.NET -Version <version>

Or add the package reference directly to your .*proj file:

<PackageReference Include="Plotly.NET" Version="<version>" />

You can include the package via an inline package reference:

#r "nuget: Plotly.NET, <version>"

You can use the same inline package reference as in script, but as an additional goodie, the interactive extensions for dotnet interactive have you covered for seamless chart rendering:

#r "nuget: Plotly.NET, <version>"
#r "nuget: Plotly.NET.Interactive, <version>"

dotnet new nugetconfig
dotnet nuget add source https://www.myget.org/F/plotly-net-nightly/api/v3/index.json
dotnet add package Plotly.NET --prerelease

#i "https://www.myget.org/F/plotly-net-nightly/api/v3/index.json"
#r "nuget:Plotly.NET, *-*"
#r "nuget:Plotly.NET.Interactive, *-*"

The landing page of our docs contains everything to get you started fast, check it out 📖 here

The API reference is available 📚 here

The documentation for this library is automatically generated (using FSharp.Formatting) from *.fsx and *.md files in the docs folder. If you find a typo, please submit a pull request!

Note: The release and prerelease build targets assume that there is a NUGET_KEY environment variable that contains a valid Nuget.org API key.

Check the build project to take a look at the build targets. Here are some examples:

# Windows

# Build only
./build.cmd

# Full release buildchain: build, test, pack, build the docs, push a git tag, publish thze nuget package, release the docs
./build.cmd release

# The same for prerelease versions:
./build.cmd prerelease


# Linux/mac

# Build only
build.sh

# Full release buildchain: build, test, pack, build the docs, push a git tag, publísh the nuget package, release the docs
build.sh release

# The same for prerelease versions:
build.sh prerelease

The docs are contained in .fsx and .md files in the docs folder. To develop docs on a local server with hot reload, run the following in the root of the project:

# Windows
./build.cmd watchdocs

# Linux/mac
./build.sh watchdocs

Plotly.NET is a community maintained open source projects. Big thanks to all contributors!

The library is available under the MIT license.