Razor chart recommendation

Question

I am currently doing an mvc3 razor project and I need some charts.

I will need to blend bars and lines in a single chart or/and have multiple dataseries. I was just wondering which charts you guys use. Price is a factor but I would like to hear some real world usage before trying out to many of the thousands of the charts available.

Answer 1

We're currently using Google Chart Tools. It uses HTML5/SVG technology (adopting VML for old IE versions) so it's all rendered on the browser. The JavaScript API is really powerful yet pretty simple to understand and very flexible allowing you to customize almost everything from the data to the presentation. Because it's all rendered in browser it also offers very nice and clean animations on mouse-over and mouse-click.

You've detailed documentation for each type of chart.

Check the default charts here. Also available are the Additional Charts which are compliant with DataTable protocol (a way to represent charts data through JavaScript) and are somehow approved by Google.

It's free!

Answer 2

I've used HighCharts before and find the API very nice to use, also as its essentially a Jquery plugin using a JSON result in your Razor view would integrate nicely.