The NetDiagram Component

• Redistribution is royalty free
• Assembly is strong-named
• Can be purchased with source code
• Is written in C#

User Interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Free-form drawing
• Scrolling and zooming
• Copy and paste items to/from the clipboard
• Panning
• Automatic scrolling while dragging items with the mouse
• Alignment to grid
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tips
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Magnifier tool
• Undo / redo support

Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections
• Extension methods for fluent API
• Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior
• Numerous utility methods
• Path finding and cycle detection
• Rich event set

Store and Retrieve Diagrams into/from

• Files on disk
• .NET streams
• ASCII strings
• XML documents

Output

• To HTML5 Canvas element
• To an image with associated client side image map
• Printing and print preview
• Create bitmap images

Import and Export

• Export images in bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff, png formats
• Export diagrams to PDF
• Export Visio 2003 VDX files
• Export Visio 2013 VSDX files
• Export Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) files
• Export Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files
• Export Portable Document Format (PDF) files
• Import Visio 2003 VDX files
• Import Visio 2013 VSDX files
• Import OpenOffice Draw files

Diagram Elements

• More tham 100 predefined node shapes
• Ability to define custom shapes and shape libraries
• Rotation of shapes at arbitrary angles
• Container nodes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• Table cells can span several columns and rows
• Sections of table rows can be expanded or collapsed
• Links can comprise multiple segments
• Link segments can be straight lines or curves
• Support for custom node and link types

Automatic Layout

• Spring-Embedder graph layout
• Directional tree layout
• Horizontal/vertical binary tree layout
• Radial tree layout
• Fractal tree layout
• Layered graph layout
• Grid layout
• Simulated Annealing graph layout
• One-way graph layout
• Orthogonal graph layout
• Circular graph layout
• Orthogonal link router
• Source code flowchart layout
• Decision flowchart layout
• Process diagrams layout
• Tree map layout
• Swimlane diagrams layout
• Topological graph layout
• Triangular graph layout
• Hierarchical graph layout
• Cascading graph layout
• Multi-level graph layout
• Automatic link routing

Appearance

• Styles and themes
• Nodes can display images and text
• Various text alignment styles
• Text can be laid-out in polygonal areas
• Glass visual effects
• Styled HTML-like text formatting
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Custom painting of nodes
• Shadows
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Z-order
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles
• Transparent nodes
• Invisible nodes
• Embossment and shadow dispersion visual effects
• A background lane grid

Behavior

• Lock diagram elements
• Read-only mode supported
• Tables can be scrolled
• Collapse and expand hierarchy branches
• In-place text editing
• Dynamic positioning of links relative to connected nodes

Link Diagram Items

• Nodes to nodes
• Table rows to table rows
• Nodes to table rows
• Unconnected links

Hierarchical Grouping

• Attaching nodes to other nodes
• Attaching nodes to link control points
• Attaching nodes to link segments

Auxiliary Controls

• Overview control
• Shapes listbox
• Node list control