# Quick Start This quick start guides you through the steps of adding the FlexChart control in your Blazor application, adding data to it and displaying the data in the control. ## Content This quick start guides you through the steps of adding the FlexChart control in your Blazor application, adding data to it and displaying the data in the control. In this example, we create a data source for FlexChart by creating list of countries and their GDP values for respective years and bind the list to the FlexChart control to display the data using Bar Chart in the control. ![FlexChart](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/f5b600ba-f1a7-4f89-a20c-aa6c0c35880d/images/barquickstart.png) ## Create a Blazor App 1. In Visual Studio, select **Create a new project** from the **Get started** pane. 2. In the **Create a new project** window, select **Blazor WebAssembly App**, and click **Next**. Alternatively, you can also create a Blazor Server App. > type=note > **Note**: **Blazor Server App** or server-side app can be created using the Blazor Server App template. For more details, see [Blazor Server](/componentone/docs/blazor/online-blazor/blazortypes/blazorserver) topic under Blazor Project Types. 3. In the **Configure your new project** dialog, provide name of the project you want to create in the **Project name** field and location for the project in the **Location** field. Click **Next**. 4. In the **Additional information** dialog, select the target framework from the **Framework** dropdown, if required and click **Create**. By default, the selected framework is **.NET 8.0**.
A new client-side Blazor app is created. ## Configure References 1. In the **Solution Explorer**, right click **Dependencies** and select **Manage NuGet Packages**. 2. In **NuGet Package Manager**, select **nuget.org** as the **Package source**. 3. Search for **C1.Blazor.Chart** package and click **Install**. 4. Navigate to the **wwwroot**, open **index.html** file. 5. Register the client resources by adding the following lines of code to the **\** tag.
```EXAMPLE ``` 6. Add the following code to the **\** tag. ```html ``` 7. Right click on **Pages** folder, click **Add |** **Razor Component** to add a new Razor page and then provide a name, say _FlexChartBoxQuickStart._ ## Configure the Data Source In the code, add a DataSource class to create a list of data for the FlexChart control. ```razor @code { public class GdpDataSource { public static List