Dashed Lines
Hover over the image to see the chart animation
This web site builds the control from code behind but you could also grab it from the toolbox, this sample also uses a ViewModel to populate the properties of the control(s) in this sample.


View Model
using CommunityToolkit.Mvvm.ComponentModel;
using LiveChartsCore;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Painting;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Painting.Effects;
using SkiaSharp;
namespace ViewModelsSamples.Design.StrokeDashArray;
public partial class ViewModel : ObservableObject
{
public ViewModel()
{
// The LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Painting.EffectsPathEffect abstract class is a wrapper for
// the SkiaSharp.SKPathEffect object, in this case we will use the DashEffect class
// to create a dash line as the stroke of our line series
// notice the stroke thickness affects the stroke dash array
// if you want to learn more about stroke dash arrays please see:
// https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/graphics/skiasharp/curves/effects#dots-and-dashes
var strokeThickness = 10;
var strokeDashArray = new float[] { 3 * strokeThickness, 2 * strokeThickness };
var effect = new DashEffect(strokeDashArray);
Series = new ISeries[]
{
new LineSeries<int>
{
Values = new [] { 4, 2, 8, 5, 3 },
LineSmoothness = 1,
GeometrySize = 22,
Stroke = new SolidColorPaint
{
Color = SKColors.CornflowerBlue,
StrokeCap = SKStrokeCap.Round,
StrokeThickness = strokeThickness,
PathEffect = effect
},
Fill = null
}
};
}
public ISeries[] Series { get; set; }
}
Code Behind
using System.Windows.Forms;
using LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.WinForms;
using ViewModelsSamples.Design.StrokeDashArray;
namespace WinFormsSample.Design.StrokeDashArray;
public partial class View : UserControl
{
private readonly CartesianChart cartesianChart;
public View()
{
InitializeComponent();
Size = new System.Drawing.Size(50, 50);
var viewModel = new ViewModel();
cartesianChart = new CartesianChart
{
Series = viewModel.Series,
// out of livecharts properties...
Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0),
Size = new System.Drawing.Size(50, 50),
Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right | AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Bottom
};
Controls.Add(cartesianChart);
}
}