Visifire
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| Developer(s) | Webyog, Inc. |
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| Stable release | 4.0 / Aug 2011 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Any |
| Size | 200Kb |
| Available in | Multi-lingual |
| Type | Charting |
| License | Commercial |
| Website | visifire.com |
Visifire is a set of data visualization components powered by Microsoft Silverlight & WPF. Visifire is a multi-targeting control which can be used in both WPF & Silverlight applications. One can use the same API to create charts & gauges in Mobile, Web & Desktop environments. Visifire can also be embedded in any webpage as a standalone Silverlight App. It is independent of the server side technology being used. Hence, Visifire can be used with ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML with JavaScript.[1]
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[edit] History
Visifire development was started during the early release of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha by Microsoft. As the next release of Silverlight was directly Silverlight 2.0 beta, it was ported to Silverlight 2.0 beta. Release of Silverlight 2.0 Final, opened up slew of possibilities. To exploit the full power of Silverlight 2.0, major architectural changes were done & all new Visifire 2.0 was released. Later came Visifire 3.0 with improved looks & major performance improvements.[2] Gauges were introduced with Visifire 4.0.[3] In the coming days Visifire introduced Gesture support for Windows Phone 7.[4]
[edit] Current Version
Current version of Visifire is 4.x.
[edit] Features
- Visually appealing animated charts
- It can be embedded into any Web, Desktop or Mobile Applications
- Supports wide range of Charts & Gauges
- Real Time Charts / Live Update
- Supports Interactivity
- Scrollable Charts
- Online chart designer to help creating charts[5]
- Editable on Microsoft Expression Blend
- Windows Phone 7 support[6]
- Enterprise grade features
[edit] Technical Specification
- Developed using C# and XAML
- JavaScript API to embed in web pages
[edit] Platforms
Visifire was initially developed for Silverlight. With the release of version 2.0, WPF is also supported. Hence, Visifire runs on all Platforms supported by Silverlight & WPF. Currently Silverlight supports Mac and Windows.
[edit] License
Visifire is licensed commercially & one can buy a royalty free license based on number of developers.[7] It was once distributed under GPL but was discontinued due to the confusion prevailing around Windows Phone Marketplace.[8]
[edit] Support
Priority Support is provided to Enterprise Customers through ticket system. All users are supported through Visifire Community Forum.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "Visifire Home Page". http://visifire.com.
- ^ "Visifire 3.0 Release Notes". http://www.visifire.com/blog/2010/01/08/silverlight-and-wpf-charting-control-visifire-3-0-goes-ga/.
- ^ "Visifire 4.0 Release Notes". http://www.visifire.com/blog/2011/02/08/visifire-4-0-introduces-silverlight-wpf-gauges/.
- ^ "Gesture support". http://www.visifire.com/blog/2011/04/19/gesture-support-for-visifire-wp7-windows-phone-7-charts/.
- ^ "Chart Designer". http://www.visifire.com/silverlight_wpf_charts_gauges_designer.php.
- ^ "WP7 App to showcase charts". http://www.visifire.com/blog/2011/07/20/wp7-windows-phone-7-app-for-visifire/.
- ^ "Visifire Licenses". http://www.visifire.com/license.php.
- ^ "GPL discontinuation". http://www.visifire.com/blog/2011/02/18/why-did-we-drop-gpl-for-our-windows-phone-7-wp7-charting-controls/.
