looking for some cool Silverlight chart Demos [closed]

Question

I am currently using Reporting Service of SQL Server 2008, and I think the user interface is not very elegant. And I want to use Silverlight as user interface to render reporting service backend data. Two questions,

1. Is it possible? Reporting Service exposes interface which Silverlight could retrieve data and render?

2. I am looking for some cool Demos, better free with source codes, which could dynamically show different kinds of charts, curves on coordinates based on the data retrieved by some data source (e.g. Reporting Service).

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

Some Silverlight components that might be worth considering with links to their demo page:

• Silverlight Toolkit - free. Demo page: different charts (without source code)
• Visiblox - free and premium, free version comes with watermark. Examples page: showing different charts (most with source code) Full disclosure: I have been heavily involved in developing of this component.
• Visifire - free and commercial. Examples page: showing a wide range of charts (without source code)
• Telerik - commercial. Examples page: some noce examples (with source code)

Answer 2

Well, not SSRS but rocks:

http://www.visifire.com/

Free to use, SL based chart library, pretty impressing (good demos, you can even create charts there on the fly).

Cheers Braulio