The WpfDiagram Component

• Redistribution is royalty free
• Assembly is strong-named
• Can be purchased with source code
• Is written in C#
• Implements the Document/View architecture

User Interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Free-form drawing
• Free-form selection mode
• Scrolling and zooming
• Copy and paste to/from Windows clipboard
• Panning
• Automatic scrolling while dragging items with the mouse
• Magnification
• Alignment to grid
• Node alignment guides
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tips
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Undo / redo support
• Resize multiple nodes simultaneously
• Rotate and flip shapes
• Multi-touch gestures

Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram elements
• 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
• JSON strings

Output

• To the screen by using Windows Presentation Foundation
• Printing and print preview
• To a browser using HTML image maps
• Display graphs in 3D

Import and Export

• Import Visio 2003 XML (VDX) Drawings
• Import Visio 2013 XML (VSDX) Drawings
• Import OpenOffice Draw (ODG) files
• Import Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files
• Export bitmap images
• Export Portable Document Format (PDF) files
• Export Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files
• Export Visio 2003 XML (VDX) Drawings
• Export Visio 2013 XML (VSDX) Drawings
• Export Excel Open XML Format (XLSX) files
• Export Windows MetaFile (WMF) images
• Export Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) files
• Export XML Paper Specification (XPS) files

Diagram Elements

• Use any WPF UIElement as a diagram node
• More than 100 predefined node shapes
• Display SVG drawings in nodes
• Ability to define custom shapes and shape libraries
• Templatable diagram nodes
• Rotation of shapes at arbitrary angles
• Container nodes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• Table cells can span several columns and rows
• Free-form outlines drawn by users
• Display hierarchical data in TreeView nodes
• Display shapes from Visio stencil files
• Assign diagram items to layers
• Sections of table rows can be expanded or collapsed
• Links can comprise multiple segments
• Link segments can be straight lines or curves
• Display multiple labels per link
• Support for custom node and link types

Automatic Layout

• Non-blocking methods
• 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
• Cascading graph layout
• Hierarchical graph layout
• Triangular graph layout
• Multi-level graph layout
• Automatic link routing

Appearance

• Nodes can display images and text
• Multiple text labels per item
• 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
• A background swimlane 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
• Ruler control
• VirtualizingDiagram control
• NodeListView control
• ShapeListBox control
• LayerListView control
• TabbedDiagramView control
• Zoom control
• Shape designer control