MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional

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Enhance your applications with diagramming and graphing capabilities. MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional helps you create and present work flow and process diagrams; database entity-relationship diagrams; organizational charts; object hierarchy and relationship charts, graphs, and trees. Its' basic types of objects - boxes, tables, and arrows - can be grouped and attached one to another and combined in complex structures. MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional provides more than 50 predefined box shapes, as well as custom-designed and custom-painted boxes. FlowChart.NET Professional Source Code available.

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FlowChart.NET V5.0.3 - Professional Edition

FlowChart.NET V5.0.3 - Professional Edition with Source Code

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What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V5.0.3?

• Visual Studio 2008 support
• Possibility to use any Windows Forms control for in-place editing
• New ResizeToFitText overload allows preserving the width of cells
• Improved reflexive links when connecting rows of the same table
• ValidateAnchorPoint event handlers receive a TableRow argument
• ContainerChildAdded and ContainerChildRemoved events
• The Arrange(DiagramItemCollection) method can arrange items in a container
• Routing links between nodes in a container
• Improved performance of container nodes in multiple selection
• New CutToClipboard overload allows copying groups to the clipboard
• Shape.DisplayName displayed in ShapeListBox and ShapeToolbar instead of Shape.Id

What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V5.0.2?

• Laying out unconnected subgraphs so that the diagram covers a minimal area
• OrthogonalLayout supports nodes of different sizes
• OrthogonalLayout can handle a much larger number of links
• Improved API for the FlowLayout layout algorithm
• It is no longer required to use the World unit to scale fonts when zooming
• Text of ContainerNode and DiagramLink objects can be edited in place
• There are type converters provided for the RectangleF and SizeF types
• Dropping a DiagramView onto a form automatically adds a Diagram instance
• DiagramView.DelKeyAction specifies the function of the Del key
• The Route method returns a boolean to indicate if a route has been found

What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V5?

Document/View architecture
FlowChart.NET implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern in its new version 5. The MVC design pattern as applied to FlowChart.NET separates the diagram data (model) from its representation to the user (view) and controlling it by the user (controller). According to the MVC design pattern, FlowChart.NET Version 5 provides two new classes instead of the FlowChart class, namely Diagram and DiagramView.

Support for custom diagram item types
The FlowChart.NET API has been redesigned to allow for seamless integration of custom node and link types. You can define a custom item type by deriving from DiagramLink or DiagramNode. You could also derive from more specific node types such as ShapeNode or ContainerNode. New items can be added to a diagram by instantiating them and adding them to the Nodes or Links collections. To improve support for custom types, many type-specific methods have been replaced with more generic versions, e.g. FindNode instead of FindBox and FindTable.

Containers
The ContainerNode class implements diagram nodes that can function as containers for other nodes. Containers can be folded to hide their content, and unfolded to show it again. Containers can be nested one within another, without limitation on the depth of nesting.

Orthogonal graph layout
OrthogonalLayout is a secondary layout algorithm that can be used to arrange links after an initial node arrangement has already been applied. The orthogonal layout is useful when there are much more links than nodes in a graph. The algorithm strives to achieve the following criteria, while preserving as much of the initial node configuration as possible: links must not overlap; only vertical and horizontal routing lines are used; graph routing is performed with respect to the specified main layout direction; links crossings are minimized; bends are minimized.

Graphics interface
Now all drawing is done through an IGraphics interface, for which the control provides GdiGrahics, SvgGraphics and PdfGraphics implementations. Thus the files created by SvgExporter and PdfExporter can contain custom-drawn elements, which you draw either by handling custom drawing events or by implementing the Draw method in your custom item types.

API changes
Conformity with the .NET Framework naming conventions has been improved.

What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V4.3.1?

• Shape Designer now supports arc elements
• VisioExporter preserves the relationship between table rows
• Now VisioExporter supports all ArrowTextStyle members

What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V4.3?

• support for shape libraries
• support for swimlane diagrams
• ShapeListBox control
• a new brush type - PathGradientBrush
• mouse button mapping
• more precise hit-testing for multiple-selection

What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V4.2?

• The PdfExporter component lets you export FlowChart.NET diagrams to PDF
• Simulated Annealing graph layout algorithm
• KeepInsideParent constraint property added to NodeConstraints
• KeepRatio constraint property added to NodeConstraints
• now the control lets you implement custom expand/collapse logic
• the middle mouse button can be used for panning
• PanCursor property added
• LeaveInplaceEditMode event added
• BeginInplaceEdit and EndInplaceEdit methods added to the Table and Cell classes
• HtmlBuilder raises a CreatingArea event to allow customization of the AREA tags

What's New in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V4.1?

• Export diagrams to DXF format
• Image and ImageRectangle properties added to the ShapeTemplate class
• The PathFinder class can ignore the direction of arrows when looking for paths
• Now users can change the orientation of cascading arrows
• New arrows can be routed while users fraw them
• Initialization events raised when users start drawing new items
• New text styles implemented for arrows
• The TextRendering property enables or disables smoothing of text
• Draw formatted text inside custom-drawn items using the DrawStyledText method

What’s new in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V4.0.4?

•  Now the VisioImporter can import UML Activity diagrams
•  ExportTablesAsGroups property added to VisioExporter
•  RoundedArrows allows using arcs as joins between arrow segments
•  Drawing of ArrowCrossing improved
•  FitSizeToText lets you preserve the width or height of a box
•  ToolTipDelay property added
•  Custom XML serialization of Tag objects
•  AllowIncomingArrows and AllowOutgoingArrows properties added
•  The LayeredLayout algorithm has been improved
•  Hit-testing speed improved
•  Table drawing speed improved

What's new in MindFusion FlowChart.NET Professional V4.0.3?

• HtmlBuilder can create image map areas for Arrow objects
• HtmlBuilder can create areas for expandable nodes' +/- buttons
• WebChart marked with the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute
• Grid points are drawn faster when GridStyle is set to Points
• Table nodes are drawn faster now
• GridLayout produces better results with less iterations
• TableSectionExpanded and TableSectionCollapsed events added
• CaptionBackBrush property added to the Table class
• Now the control allows setting ZoomFactor to values < 10
• The HyperLink property moved from Node to ChartObject

Main differences between Standard and Professional Editions:

• Import/Export Visio XML Drawing files
• Multilevel Undo/Redo support
• Layered graph layout
• Spring-Embedder graph layout
• Grid layout
• Path finding in graphs
• A suite of auxiliary controls:
  • Overview control
  • Node shapes toolbar
  • Ruler control

Main Features

FlowChart.NET is designed in such way that you can create with it even the most complex schemes. In order to do so you combine different FlowChart.NET objects and set their properties. You can respond to the users' interaction with the flowchart objects with the events the control provides.

Below you can see a list of the most important FlowChart.NET characteristics separated in groups:

The FlowChart.NET component

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

User interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Scrolling and zooming
• Panning
• Copy and paste to/from Windows clipboard
• Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse
• Alignment to grid
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tip
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Undo / redo support

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 display via Windows Forms
• Printing
• Print preview
• To browser via the utility WebChart class
• Export image files

Diagram elements

• More than 70 predefined node shapes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• Control hosts allow using .NET controls as diagram nodes
• Arrows can comprise multiple segments
• Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves

Automatic layout

• Spring-Embedder graph layout
• Directional tree layout
• Radial tree layout
• Layered graph layout
• Grid layout ( FlowChart.NET Pro only)
• Automatic arrow routing

Appearance

• Nodes can display images and text
• Various text alignment styles
• Text can be laid-out in polygonal areas
• Styled HTML-like text formatting
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Ability to define custom node shapes
• Custom painting of nodes
• Shadows
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Z order
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles
• Transparent nodes
• Invisible nodes

Behavior

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

Linking via arrows

• Nodes to nodes
• Tables to tables
• Nodes to tables
• Unconnected arrows

Hierarchical grouping

• Attaching objects (nodes/tables) to other objects
• Attaching objects to arrow control points
• Attaching objects to arrow segments

Auxiliary controls (FlowChart.NET Pro only)

• Overview control
• Ruler control
• Shapes toolbar