I recently came across some very high quality charts and gauge controls available through VISIFire for WP7, WPF and Silverlight based applications. If are in need of some professional charts or gauges for your application, I would high recommend you check them out!

The chart-based controls currently available include the following:

2-D Column Charts
3-D Column Charts
Line / Step / Quick Line Charts
Stacked Charts
Funnel / Pyramid Charts
Bar Charts
CandleStick Charts
Area Charts
Pie / Doughnut Charts
Spline Charts
Radar / Polar Charts
Combination Charts
Bubble / Point Charts
Stock Charts

And for Gauges:

    Circular Gauges
    Linear Gauges

These controls include support some powerful features:

• Interactivity
• Elegant Animations
• Scrollable Charts
• Theming and Styling
• Animated Updates
• Zooming
• Data Binding
• Logarithmic Axis

Note that all these controls are compatible and editable in Microsoft Expression Blend.

To get an understanding of the stunning look and feel of these charts and gauges check out these screenshots below:

Getting start is very easy and literally takes only a few minutes to get up and running.  To start, download the trial from here once you unzip the package add a reference from your project to SLWpVisifire.Charts.dll and/or SLWpVisifire.Gauges.dll. The following code below shows an example of a Spline chart in your XAML:

<vc:Chart xmlns:vc="clr-namespace:Visifire.Charts;assembly=SLVisifire.Charts"
    Width="500" Height="300" Theme="Theme1" CornerRadius="7" AnimatedUpdate="true" > 

    <vc:Chart.Titles>
        <vc:Title Text="Visifire Spline Chart"></vc:Title>
    </vc:Chart.Titles> 

    <vc:Chart.PlotArea>
        <vc:PlotArea ShadowEnabled="false"></vc:PlotArea>
    </vc:Chart.PlotArea> 

    <vc:Chart.Series>
        <vc:DataSeries RenderAs="Spline" MarkerSize="8" >
            <vc:DataSeries.DataPoints>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Sun" YValue="5"/>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Mon" YValue="6"/>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Tue" YValue="10"/>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Wed" YValue="18"/>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Thu" YValue="10"/>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Fri" YValue="30"/>
                <vc:DataPoint AxisXLabel="Sat" YValue="32"/>
            </vc:DataSeries.DataPoints>
        </vc:DataSeries>
    </vc:Chart.Series>
</vc:Chart>

When rendered, it will look like this:

Like what you see? Go to http://www.visifire.com to get started!

Thanks,

–Mike