Version 2.4 of MvcDiagram adds the following new features:

Styled text
The ShapeNode.EnableStyledText property allows using HTML-like formatting tags to apply various attributes to the node's text. At this time the component supports the following formatting tags:

• <b> specifies bold text
• <i> specifies italic text
• <u> specifies underlined text
• <color=value> specifies text color

Improved text rendering

• General text rendering quality improved. The component removes scale transformations applied for MeasureUnit and ZoomFactor before drawing text on the canvas, and instead specifies a scaled font size, which helps improve text appearance in Firefox and older versions of Chrome.
• Now items' text can be drawn underlined. To enable this, set the underline attribute of the Font class.
• Font styles can be specified via Style instance by setting its FontStyle property.

License keys
There is no separate trial build of the control assemblies anymore. Instead, set the LicenseKey property to disable the component's evaluation mode and stop displaying trial messages. If your application contains more than one DiagramView instance or other controls by MindFusion, you could call MindFusion.Licensing.LicenseManager.AddLicense(key) to specify the key once instead of setting it per each control. License key strings will be listed on the Keys & Downloads page at MindFusion's customer portal.

Miscellaneous

• Items can be drawn using dashed lines in browsers that support the setLineDash function. To enable this, set the Pen.DashStyle property of DiagramItem or the StrokeDashStyle property of Style.
• Client-side TreeLayout supports organizational charts with assistant nodes as in Microsoft Office diagrams. To mark nodes as assistants, set node.LayoutTraits[TreeLayout.Assistant] to a member of the AssistantType enumeration . Set TreeLayout.enableAssistants = true; to arrange assistant nodes in a separate branch between the main node levels.
• Specify if separate connected components of a graph should be arranged horizontally or vertically relatively to each other by setting the multipleGraphsPlacement attribute of layout classes.
• The type of LinkLabel.Margin property has been changed from number to Thickness, letting you specify different margin sizes at each side of the label.
• Masters for Start and Arrow7 shapes added to VisioExporter template file.
• VisioImporter now tries to preserve ShapeNode.Shape when importing from files created by VisioExporter.

If anyone is interested in trying the beta version, please download this archive containing the updated assemblies and script files:
https://mindfusion.eu/_beta/MvcDiagram24.zip

Any comments, questions and general feedback are welcome.