How do I choose a charting component? Do you think selecting the Right Chart Control is really hard! Here I will help you to make it more easier.
Well before you select a charting component you should be very careful about the following things.
If you consider the above points while purchasing a charting component hope you will be able to select right chart control for your applicaton.
Well before you select a charting component you should be very careful about the following things.
- First make sure that the chart looks smart and beautiful (For Enterprise grade application).
- Smooth and smart animation to impress your boss and clients.
- What data you are going to visualize in the Chart? It’s always better to select a charting component which supports all chart types in one binary/component.
- Few commonly used chart types are - Pie, Column, Bar, Line, Spline, Area, Stacked Charts and combination charts etc. Checkout the list here.
- Do not overlook styling and Theme options.
- Make sure its faster.
- It must support few basic features required to create an enterprise application or dashboard.
• Must be easier to use (This will reduce your development time).
• Must support switching one chart type to another just setting one property.
• Events on any elements present in chart (Required for creating drilldown charts)
• Supply data at one shot
• Real-time update
• Partial update (Real-time without updating the whole chart)
• Good documentation.
• Good documentation.
If you consider the above points while purchasing a charting component hope you will be able to select right chart control for your applicaton.
According to my experience I can say Visifire is the best charting component which meets all the above requirements. Currently Visifire works with Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF, XBAP, win-form application, any web-application, JQuery, SharePoint and so many..
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