Saturday, February 25, 2012

Reporting Svcs vs Charting Controls

We are trying to decide between Reporting Svcs and Charting Controls. If we
go Reporting SVcs route, we'll have to use Web Service as we are passing
datasets as the datasource and there will be no URL access. It's a fairly
complex application using stock and candlestick charts. What are the pros and
cons of both? I feel charting controls provide a finer control over the look
and feel but I am open to other ideas/suggestions.
ThanksMy opinion is that the chart offerings of MSRS are pretty weak...at least
right now. You know MS is going to beef them up eventually but if you have
very specific charting requirements (like a zoom that doesn't just blow up a
jpg) you'll probably want to go with a control. The company that licensed
the charting component to Microsoft (www.dundas.com) has a more advance
charting component but I don't think it can be "plugged" into MSRS.
"vibs" <vibs@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25D688C7-A8DB-40AF-B018-CF97739EB4C2@.microsoft.com...
> We are trying to decide between Reporting Svcs and Charting Controls. If
we
> go Reporting SVcs route, we'll have to use Web Service as we are passing
> datasets as the datasource and there will be no URL access. It's a fairly
> complex application using stock and candlestick charts. What are the pros
and
> cons of both? I feel charting controls provide a finer control over the
look
> and feel but I am open to other ideas/suggestions.
> Thanks
>

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