LINQPad can also call all the old Dundas configuration controls that come with Windows Forms. Just dump any Bitmap object, and LINQPad dutifully displays it in HTML. Try the following: make sure you have System.Drawing , System.Windows.Forms and System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization , in your F4 links, paste and press F5 . It also works with higher-level SHO diagrams that have been adapted for IronPython , but work fine with C #.
// Almost the smallest meaningful example of Charting void Main() { // Chart must have a chart area, but it not externally referenced later var chartArea1 = new ChartArea(); var chart1 = new Chart(); chart1.ChartAreas.Add(chartArea1); var series1 = new Series(); // The following goes beyond the minimal, but just a little. You can delete these two lines. // Fun to set the series ChartType; default is column chart series1.ChartType = SeriesChartType.Pie; series1.CustomProperties = "LabelsRadialLineSize=1, PieDrawingStyle=Concave, LabelStyle=outside"; var r = new Random(Guid.NewGuid().GetHashCode()); var ys = Enumerable.Range(0, 5).Select (e => r.NextDouble()).Dump("Doubles"); var xs = Enumerable.Range(0, 5).Select (e => GetRandomString(3).ToUpper()).Dump("Strings"); series1.Points.DataBindXY(xs.ToArray(), ys.ToArray()); chart1.Series.Add(series1); var b = new Bitmap(width: chart1.Width, height: chart1.Height); chart1.DrawToBitmap(b, chart1.Bounds); b.Dump(); var frm = new Form(); // Seems 300 x 300 is the default chart-area size and chart size, so set the form to hold it frm.ClientSize = new Size(width: 300, height: 300); frm.Controls.Add(chart1); Application.Run(frm); } static IEnumerable<string> CharRange(Char c, int length) { return (from e in Enumerable.Range(Convert.ToInt32(c), length) select Char.ConvertFromUtf32(e)); } static string GetRandomString(int length) { var sb = new StringBuilder(); do sb.Append(Path.GetRandomFileName().Replace(".", "").Substring(0, length < 11 ? length : 11)); while ((length -= 11) > 0); return sb.ToString(); }