Overview

• Royalty free redistribution
• Strong-named assembly
• Digitally signed
• Written in C#
• Source code available for purchase

User Interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Node modification constraints
• Scrolling and zooming
• Panning
• Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse
• Alignment to grid
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tips
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Mouse button mapping
• Undo/Redo support
• Copy and paste to/from Windows clipboard

Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections
• 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 the screen via Windows Presentation Foundation
• Printing and print preview
• To browser via the utility WebChart library
• Create bitmap images
• Create HTML image maps

Diagram Elements

• Use any WPF UIElement as a diagram node
• Control hosts allow using .NET controls as diagram nodes
• 87 predefined node shapes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• Merge of table cells
• Custom diagram item types
• Arrows can comprise multiple segments
• Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves
• Behavior
• Tables can be scrolled
• In-place text editing
• Ability to set selection handles behaviour
• Lock diagram elements
• Expand / collapse of object hierarchies
• Read-only mode supported
• Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes

Automatic Layout

• Layered graph layout
• AnnealLayout layout
• Spring-Embedder graph layout
• Radial layout
• Directional tree layout
• Grid layout
• Orthogonal graph layout
• Automatic arrow routing

Appearance

• Various text alignment styles
• Text can be laid-out in polygonal areas
• Styled HTML-like text formatting
• Different styles for visual indication of a selected object
• Z-order
• Nodes can display images and text
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles
• Ability to define custom node shapes
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Custom painting of nodes
• Shadows
• Arcs over link intersection points
• Transparent nodes
• Invisible nodes
• Shape libraries

Behavior

• Tables can be scrolled
• In-place text editing
• Ability to set selection handles behaviour
• Lock diagram elements
• Expand / collapse object hierarchies
• Read-only mode supported
• Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes

Diagram Structure

• Link nodes to nodes
• Link table rows to table rows
• Link table rows to nodes
• Unconnected arrows

Hierarchical grouping

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