Good morning
anyone recommend a free tool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC?
thank you
Hey Orb, that's pretty fancy and awesome visual!
Junior Mayhé
2010-05-10 16:57:36
+1 I've recently used FusionCharts and was satisfied with the end result. FusionCharts wouldn't let me do everything I wanted to do, but it covered the vast majority.
Robert Williams
2010-05-10 17:32:24
I'm using it. They are also creating a version for HTML5. There's a little problem when formating numbers on code-behind but I can live with that
Junior Mayhé
2010-05-21 15:43:27
I'm glad they're going with HTML 5, I'm pretty sick of charting solutions implemented in flash
Pierreten
2010-05-23 01:53:29
There's some sort of license issue, but I'm not aware of it
Junior Mayhé
2010-07-01 19:15:56
+1
A:
Use Google Chart Tools.
To clarify, GCT isn't specific to ASP.NET MVC. It's a hosted thing that you can call with Javascript. I've use it in MVC and regular ASP.NET project alike. Very clean and nice.
For instance, open your browser and go here:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World
You'll see this:
sohtimsso1970
2010-05-10 15:55:03
Sure, and that's an advantage. Offload the chart rendering to someone else (just like you offload your js, css content to a CDN).
sohtimsso1970
2010-05-10 16:17:25
If you can do that. It won't be possible in some scenarios, such as Intranet applications with business-sensitive data.
Robert Harvey
2010-05-10 16:18:42
Good point on intranet apps. Not necessarily, on biz sensitive data. I went through that myself, while working on an app, but discovered that you can usually abstract the data pretty easily such that nothing useful is transmitted. In other words, your data points (10, 20, 30) are meaningless and you leave words (title, legend, etc) off of the GCT-rendered image and add those elsewhere.
sohtimsso1970
2010-05-10 16:23:52
A:
The advantages of the Google Chart Tools are:
- A rich gallery of visualizations provided as:
- Image charts - using a simple URL request to a Google chart server
- Interactive charts - using a Google developed JavaScript library
- Can read live data from a variety of data sources
- Simple to use and free
Rippo
2010-05-10 15:55:26
Yes, if I'm offering my site as intranet only, it'll won't work if customer doesn't have internet connection
Junior Mayhé
2010-05-10 16:56:23
It would have been nice to include that in your question, in this case google charts wont work. Fusion Charts might be another option, plus they are fancy!
Rippo
2010-05-12 09:57:01
+3
A:
Hi,
Take a look at this free web control from Microsoft:
I tried it with regular web application, not MVC though. Works alright, a little finicky in some details.
What kind of charts you need to deal with? Some time ago I was looking for Gantt chart control, and really did not find any good free ones.
Regards, Anvar
Anvar
2010-05-10 15:57:19
More info on how to get these charts to work with ASP.NET MVC [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/319835/new-aspnet-charting-controls-will-they-work-with-mvc-eventually#320891) and [here](http://code-inside.de/blog-in/2008/11/27/howto-use-the-new-aspnet-chart-controls-with-aspnet-mvc/)
Robert Harvey
2010-05-10 16:14:30
Thanks, I suspected they work for both MVC and regular web apps similarly well.
Anvar
2010-05-10 16:32:15
A:
Six jQuery Chart Plugins
http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/02/6-jquery-chart-plugins-reviewed/
Robert Harvey
2010-05-10 16:04:58
+1
A:
Here is a demo on using the chart object in .Net check here. Its a cool for generating Charts compatible with ASP.NET MVC.
HERBERTS
2010-06-17 14:27:39
No coding, really nice Herberts. I think Microsoft should hire guys who built this component.
Junior Mayhé
2010-06-18 19:32:47