Visifire

Visifire was a set of data visualization components. It currently supports Charts and Gauges. Visifire is available on Microsoft Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, and Windows 8. One can use the same API to create charts and gauges in mobile, web, and 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]

Visifire
Developer(s)Webyog, Inc.
Stable release
5.1.7-0 / 05 Jun 2014
Operating systemWindows/Mac
Available inMulti-lingual
TypeCharting
LicenseCommercial
Websitevisifire.com

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] Later Visifire for SharePoint was introduced,[4] a wizard driven solution to create stunning SharePoint charts. Next major update from Visifire is the support for Windows Phone and Windows 8 applications. Recently released version is Visifire 5.0 [5] with major performance improvements.

Current version

Current version of Visifire is 5.1.5

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
  • High Performance Charts
  • Supports Interactivity
  • Supports Scrolling and Zooming
  • Online chart designer to help creating charts[6]
  • Editable on Microsoft Expression Blend
  • Windows Phone 7 & Windows Phone 8 support[7]
  • Windows 8 support
  • SharePoint charts
  • Enterprise grade features

Technical specification
  • Developed using C# and XAML
  • JavaScript API to embed in web pages

Platforms

Visifire runs on various platforms: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone and Windows 8.

License

Visifire is licensed commercially - one can buy a royalty free license based on number of developers.[8] It was once distributed under GPL but was discontinued due to the confusion prevailing around Windows Phone Marketplace.[9]

Support

Priority Support is provided to Enterprise Customers through ticket system. All users are supported through Visifire Community Forum.

References
  1. "Visifire Home Page".
  2. "Visifire 3.0 Release Notes".
  3. "Visifire 4.0 Release Notes".
  4. "Visifire for SharePoint Release Notes".
  5. "Visifire 5.0 Release Notes".
  6. "Chart Designer".
  7. "WP7 App to showcase charts".
  8. "Visifire Licenses".
  9. "GPL discontinuation".
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