Charts in MVC3

So you want to draw a chart in MVC and don’t know where to start?

Step 1) Create a new MVC3 project

Step 2) Open NuGet and add a library reference to “microsoft-web-helpers”

Step 3) Change your action method to create a new chart and write it to the response stream

Result)

Step Additional)

You could return a partial view and even call it from Ajax if you wanted, you could just return JSON and use a client side vector graphics library.
Or you could create your own HTML helpers / function to make life easier. (many ways to skin a cat).