SkiaSharp can't load in the designer view of .NET Framework WinForms apps. The control appears in the toolbox, but drag-dropping it onto the window causes a spectacularly confusing error (screenshot below).

The presently recommended workaround is to add a FormsPlot programmatically (https://scottplot.net/faq/add-winforms-programmatically/) but some users may find this confusing (e.g., #4312)

This issue will track using preprocessor directives to create a version of FormsPlot specifically for .NET Framework projects that does not use SkiaSharp and will not crash in this way, but that will replace itself at runtime with a regular FormsPlot containing the SkiaSharp surface.