<p>What are the various charting tools that are available for displaying charts on a web page using ASP.NET?</p>

<p>I know about commercial tools such as Dundas and Infragistics.</p>

<p>I could have "googled" this but I want to know the various tools that SO participants have used? Any free charting tools that are available are also welcome to be mentioned.  </p>

[{'answer_id': 82351, 'author': 'itsmatt', 'author_id': 7862, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7862', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Hey - don't know if this works for ASP.NET but I've used the ZedGraph tool for my winforms apps and it is really nice.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 82358, 'author': 'Catch22', 'author_id': 15428, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/15428', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>If you use SQL Server, then SQL Server reporting services is not bad. It includes a free version of Dundas chart controls which allows you to do basic charting. There are are couple of issues with presentation and making it Firefox friendly but it's a pretty simple solution. - If you've SQL Server of course!</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 82363, 'author': 'Mike Becatti', 'author_id': 6617, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6617', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>We have used <a href="http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet/prometheus/Chart/Examples/Overview/DefaultCS.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Telerik\'s RadChart</a> and MSSQL Reporting Services.  </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82366, 'author': 'RB.', 'author_id': 15393, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/15393', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>ZedGraph works superbly in ASP .NET, and is a superb charting package. Really flexible, and makes attractive graphs. The graphs are generated as static images (PNG by default) and it automatically deletes old ones.</p>\n\n<p>Also, it is widely supported, has a great wiki, and a decent code-project tutorial (<a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/zedgraph.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/zedgraph.aspx</a>).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82367, 'author': 'Paul van Brenk', 'author_id': 1837197, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1837197', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I like <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/chart/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">google charts</a>, but check the license before using.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82386, 'author': 'Ben', 'author_id': 11522, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11522', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I used <a href="http://www.advsofteng.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chart Director</a> for a medium sized project, and loved it. It\'s incredibly feature-rich, has pretty good documentation, and an amazingly good support forum -- it\'s one of those ones where you ask a question, and a guy who works for the company that produces the software almost invariably answers it within a few hours. I used it with PHP and MySQL, but as far as I know it works with ASP.NET as well.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82387, 'author': 'kaybenleroll', 'author_id': 277, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/277', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you do not mind using Flash to display your graphs, <a href="http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Open Flash Charts</a> supports a lot of languages. This was also the choice used for the Stackoverflow reputation tracker piece as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6936/using-what-ive-learned-from-stackoverflow-html-scraper">mentioned in this question</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82443, 'author': 'Rob Wells', 'author_id': 2974, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2974', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You might like to take a look at the new <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Visualization API</a>. Saw a presentation on this at yesterday\'s Google Dev. Day in London and it looked very interesting.</p>\n\n<p>While it is currently only able to work with data retrieved from Google Spreadsheets, expanding it to handle data retrieval from other sources is a high priority for the Viz. team.</p>\n\n<p>HTH.</p>\n\n<p>cheers,</p>\n\n<p>Rob</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 82474, 'author': 'Jon Cage', 'author_id': 15369, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/15369', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>What about using <a href="http://solutoire.com/flotr/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Flotr</a>? The syntax is pretty clean and you can produce some pretty nifty graphs (Check out <a href="http://solutoire.com/flotr/docs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">some examples</a>) with minimal effort.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 85673, 'author': 'JasonS', 'author_id': 1865, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1865', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I would look no farther than Dundas if you have the cha-ching to pay for it.  I've used it on several projects and not found a better option.  Cheaper with better licensing, yes, but not better in terms of functionality.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 222846, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>For free flash charting, you may look at <a href="http://www.fusioncharts.com/free" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FusionCharts Free</a>. Or, if you want more professional and are ready to shell out $$$, look at <a href="http://www.fusioncharts.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FusionCharts v3</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4370772, 'author': 'Win32', 'author_id': 532842, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/532842', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you need to build charts FAST then have a look at this rocket:</p>\n\n<p>dsec.com/csp_charts.png</p>\n\n<p>You can call the chart server from your ASP.Net scripts.</p>\n'}]
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