We like them as you can get a proof of concept up and running in next to no time - without having to mess about with any third party components.
We're quite happy with how Google Charts performs, we use it heavily on some BI dashboards. We've also built a wrapper control which allows us to just pass it a chart type along with all the collections of data and the control handles building the querystring itself for the image src itself.
Combine this with jQuery and you have a fairly flexible way of creating charts and updating them asynchronously.
Like you say it's choosing the right tool for the job - but not a bad path to go down all the same.
Hi Jake,
We like them as you can get a proof of concept up and running in next to no time - without having to mess about with any third party components.
We're quite happy with how Google Charts performs, we use it heavily on some BI dashboards. We've also built a wrapper control which allows us to just pass it a chart type along with all the collections of data and the control handles building the querystring itself for the image src itself.
Combine this with jQuery and you have a fairly flexible way of creating charts and updating them asynchronously.
Like you say it's choosing the right tool for the job - but not a bad path to go down all the same.
Mitul
(wife's friend's husband :)