which one is better for chart and grid controls?? Flash/Flex VS Silverlight

I am developing an application which contains controls like tree,grid and chart. I personally feel silverlight is the best choice for it because its got strong third party controls from Telerik. But, as flash开发者_开发百科 is much widespread compared to silverlight, some members in the design team is supporting flash. To my suprise, I haven't seen any third party controls like Telerik(silverlight) in flash which supplies controls like Tree, Grid and Chart.

I just want to know whether I am right in supporting Silverlight.

Could anyone please let me know if you have known any third party controls in flash/flex??

Thanks, Mahesh

Plain flash doesn't make sense when you can use Flex (for charting). I don't know silverlight but I will answer your question to 3rd-party controls in flex:

• IBM Elixir (expensive): http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/visualization/demos/elixir.html#Interactive%20demos
• Birdeye (free): http://birdeye.googlecode.com/svn/branches/ng/examples/demo/BirdEyeExplorer.html

You can also achieve a lot without 3rd-party controls :)

Flex/Flash Builder has built-in tree, chart and grid components which suit for most needs.

Here are some links for further investigation:

• http://flex.org/tour
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/visualization/demos/elixir.html