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copied!<p>I worked a little bit with Google charts and the .Net Chart Control (<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/alexgor/archive/2008/11/07/microsoft-chart-control-vs-dundas-chart-control.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">formerly Dundas Chart 5.5</a>). I do not have an opinion about the other products you listed.</p> <p>At the time (a year ago) there was no functioning .Net wrapper framework for Google Charts (at least I did not find one), and while the Google Charts Api is relatively simple, it is also very limited. I found the resulting code that composes the chart request to be inherently ugly and not very maintainable (not necessarily the fault of the API, I know - but it would have required a much larger investment to do it better). <a href="http://medfieldblogs.net/webcam-radar/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here are some of the resulting charts</a>. For instance, I was unable to find a way to align the grid with the tick marks. The 30mph line on the third chart seems to be randomly placed. If you need fine-grained control, Google Charts is not your choice.</p> <p>The .Net Chart Control on the other hand gives you a lot of control. I worked on a prototype earlier this year and the goal was to create charts that matched the ones from a print publication put together by a design firm. At first I thought it would require compromises, but the Chart Control turned out to be capable of the job. <a href="http://bishowcase.podconsulting.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here is the result</a> (click the 2nd tab). I found the ability to use a range chart in this way, and have control over the placement of the labels for the vertical lines at special values pretty unique for a free tool. Also, Alex Gorev who runs the MSDN forum turned out to be very helpful when <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-SG/MSWinWebChart/thread/e9c4238b-557f-483a-8631-68b580ca3256" rel="nofollow noreferrer">I ran into an issue</a> (even though he could not ultimately solve it).</p> <p>Not a control, but another option for producing charts and publish them to the web, is SSRS. I have used the web service interface to publish <a href="http://medfieldblogs.net/temperature-in-medfield/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a report that contains a chart</a>. This could be a better option for very large sets.</p> <p>2014 update: The comments above are for a previous (obsolete) generation of Google's chart API. The new API probably addresses many of the limitations, so you should check it out.</p>

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