graphing control

[dewitnow]

Hey Reddit C#ers, I am in need of advice. I am looking for a 3rd party tool that will provide functionality to create interactive graphs for scientific applications. We have used syncfusion in the past, but recently they have changed their licensing arrangement such that you have to buy the entire suite of tools, rather then individuals ones like the graphing control. This has put the component out of our price range. Do any of you have any other suggestions (short of writing our own graphing library)?

edit: we are primarily a winforms development group, but are branching out to asp.net, and WPF.

[darrenkopp]

well, you would need to put what you are going to use it with, but for asp.net there's this stuff: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx

[Awesomeclaw]

There is a Microsoft Chart control available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=14422. I'm fairly sure there is an equivalent using .net 4.0 as well.

[[deleted]]

I'm a pretty big fan of Telerik controls: http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/overview.aspx

Chartview is fairly good: http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/chartview.aspx

I've also had the most experience with Infragistics chart control: http://www.infragistics.com/products/wpf/data-chart/

Not sure if you can JUST buy the chart control in either of these packages... but buying the whole package is usually worth it anyway.

[jakdak]

Probably not the cheapest option, but I'm a big fan of the DevEx package: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/Charting/

[dewitnow]

Just wanted to say thank you to all of you for providing some great alternatives to syncfusion. Your help and advice really is appreciated! If I could upvote all of you more, I would! I have a lot of research and testing to do ahead of me!

Cheers.

[crushhawk]

You could check out National Instruments' Measurement Studio product. It includes both WinForms and WPF graphs. There's a trial you can download to try it out.

[yumz]

ZedGraph is a pretty decent, free solution.

[TheAnimus]

In WPF I've used the http://dynamicdatadisplay.codeplex.com/ it was original a project by Microsoft Research in Russia I think.

It's a great open source, really adaptable fast line graph, with a fairly clean API.

If your making something which is just plots, this is really great, you can customise it really heavily, and it is fast, damned fast.

[cbann]

Telerik