If you are not creating a cross-platform application, the easiest way to create a chart view with ribbon is to use the Visual Studio designer and drop an NChartViewWithRibbonControl from the Visual Studio toolbox to your form/window.

Alternatively, you can use the NChartViewWithRibbon class to add a chart view with ribbon to your form/window programmatically. The example below demonstrates how to create a chart view with ribbon hosted in a NOV widget host. You can then add this host to the form's Controls collection if you are creating a WinForms application, set it as the Content of a WPF window in a WPF application project or to the ContentView of a Xamarin.Mac window:

NChartViewWithRibbon chartViewWithRibbon = new NChartViewWithRibbon(); // Create a chart view with ribbon
NChartView chartView = chartViewWithRibbon.View; // Get the chart view

// Create a NOV widget host that hosts the chart view with a ribbon
NNovWidgetHost<NWidget> novHost = new NNovWidgetHost<NWidget>(chartViewWithRibbon);

NOV Chart provides a ribbon builder that can be used to create and associate ribbon commanding UI to a chart view. The builder is represented by the NChartRibbonBuilder class.

The following code fragment demonstrates how to create a ribbon-based commanding UI using a chart ribbon builder and associate it with a chart view:

NDiagramRibbonBuilder ribbonBuilder = new NDiagramRibbonBuilder();
NCommandUIHolder chartViewWithRibbon = ribbonBuilder.CreateUI(drawingView);