MindFusion has just released Pack for WPF 2013.R2, which adds the following new features to the components in the pack:

MindFusion.Charting

Bubble Chart Control

You can now create beautiful bubble charts with the new BubbleChart class. The bubble chart can hold unlimited number of BubbleSeries. The appearance of the chart is completely customizable with various properties for the pens, brushes, labels and the other visual settings of the chart.

A bubble chart in Wpf.

3D Charts Improvements

All 3D charts derive now from a new base class – the Chart3D class. This way the control has parallel 2D and 3D chart hierarchies. The 3D chart classes support most of the properties of the 2D classes.

Hit testing in 3D has been improved. The Chart3D.HitTest method returns a ChartHitTestResult3D object, which contains information about the result of the hit-testing operation and a list of ChartElement objects available in the 2D version.

The SurfaceChart exposes a variety of new properties including CloseModelFigure, Effect3D, SurfaceType. The SurfaceType property now enables the surface chart to display its associated data as scatter marks, rather than a surface. You can customize the scatter marks through the new properties in the SurfaceSeries class – ScatterSize, ScatterType, and ShowScatterFlag.

Chart Effects

You can now create visual effects in all 2D charts with the ChartEffect property.

Miscellaneous

• ClipToPlotArea, SecondaryGridFills, and SecondaryGridStrokes properties added to AxesChart;
• AxisCrossingPoint, HorLabelAlignment, and VertLabelAlignment properties added to AxisSettings;
• Each ChartSeries now supports customizable tool tips with the new ToolTipText and ToolTipType properties;
• New and improved existing samples;

MindFusion.Diagramming

Display 3D Graphs

You can use the new DiagramView3D control to display the elements of a diagram in 3D space. Assign the Diagram that should be displayed in this view to the Diagram property. DiagramView3D adds a 3D model to the scene for each node or link of the specified diagram. The positions of nodes in 3D coordinate space are specified via the Position3D attached property.

The new 3D graph viewer

Import of OpenOffice Draw Files

Use the new DrawImporter class to import .odg files, which you have created with the OpenOffice Draw vector graphics editor. In order to use it, you must add a reference to the MindFusion.Diagramming.Wpf.DrawImport.dll assembly. Various overloads of the Import method can be used to import the OpenOffice drawing into a DiagramDocument whose pages correspond to the Draw pages, or into a single Diagram whose content is merged from all imported pages.

Import of Visio 2003 XML drawings

You can now import Visio 2003 XML Drawing files (*.vdx) into the Diagramming for Wpf wit the new VisioImporter. The standard Visio flowchart shapes, as well as most of the UML and Database entity shapes are imported to their closest representation in the MindFusion.Diagramming object model. The Visio connectors are imported as DiagramLink objects, preserving the relationship between the connected nodes. The Import method imports all Visio pages into a DiagramDocument, creating a DiagramPage for each page from the *.vdx file. The GetPageCount method gives you how many pages there are in a Visio document. Call the ImportPage method to import just a single page.

Miscellaneous

• Improved appearance of hatch patterns used to draw frames for several HandlesStyle types.
• Added support for loading HatchBrush objects from files saved by Windows Forms and ASP.NET versions of the diagramming control.
• AttachTo overloads that attach nodes to link segments or control points now allow specifying negative index values.
• Negative values are interpreted as relative to the last point or segment, regardless of the current number of link segments. For example, -2 denotes the second-to-last point or segment.
• And much more.

You can find more about the new features of the components at the forum. Here is a link to download the trial version:

Download MindFusion.Pack for WPF 2013.R2

About MindFusion.Wpf Pack: A set of advanced WPF components that help you build your business application easy and on time. The tools provide you with a complete set of features to create, edit and render complex flowcharts, charts, diagrams, calendars, schedules, maps and reports. A set of gauges and UI elements is also included. Each component offers various samples, tutorials and detailed documentation. The controls offer simple and intuitive API, completely customizable appearance, numerous input/output options and a rich event set. Each tool has been thoroughly tested to guarantee that you and your application get the high quality and performance you deserve.

You can read more about the capabilities of each component at its features page:

• Charting for Wpf features page
• Gauges for Wpf features page
• Diagramming for Wpf features page
• Scheduling for Wpf features page
• Reporting for Wpf features page
• Mapping for Wpf features page
• UI for Wpf features page

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