Contributing to FSharp.Charting

This page should provide you with some basic information if you're thinking about contributing to the FSharp.Charting project.

This page can be edited by sending a pull request to FSharp.Charting on GitHub, please edit here.
If you want to discuss a feature (a good idea!), or if you want to look at suggestions how you might contribute, check out the Issue list on GitHub.

Solution files

The root directory contains a number of Visual Studio solutions (*.sln) files that group the projects in the main logical groups:

FSharp.Charting.sln contains the main projects that implement most of the FSharp.Charting functionality (such as runtime and design-time type provider libraries). If you want to contribute code that is not quite ready yet, but looks interesting, then please add it to the experimental projects.
FSharp.Charting.Tests.sln is a library with tests for FSharp.Charting and it also contains the content of this web site (as *.fsx and *.md) files. Look here if you want to edit the documentation!

Documentation

The documentation for the FSharp.Charting library is automatically generated using the F# Formatting library. It turns *.md (Markdown with embedded code snippets) and *.fsx files (F# script file with embedded Markdown documentation) to a nice HTML documentation.

The template for the pages is in the tools directory on GitHub.
The code for all the documents (including this one) can be found in the examples directory on GitHub. If you find a bug or add a new feature, make sure you document it!
Images are not automatically generated - just use 'Save Image As' on a chart and add the PNG to the images folder.
If you want to build the documentation, simply run the build.fsx script (GitHub link) which builds the documentation.
The final documentation will be pushed to the gh-pages branch by the maintainers of the fsharp repository for the library.