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What's new in WPF Diagrams 2.0?
WPF Diagrams 2.0 includes new diagram types, new pre-built shapes and a dramatically simpler API for many scenarios. You can use WPF Diagramming to construct standalone diagrams, layouts or images, or you can use it to give your users a graphical way to build ‘live’ business objects such as business processes or data analysis flows, and now it’s easier than ever.

New shape diagrams
To the existing repertoire of flow diagrams and star diagrams, Mindscape have now added absolutely positioned or ‘shape’ diagrams. Unlike flow diagrams and star diagrams, shape diagrams don’t have any logic associated with them, so they can be used for a wide variety of situations; from instructional graphics to UI prototyping to kitchen design. Users can move shapes around and connect them up as required.

WPF Flow Diagrams and WPF Star Diagrams merged
Part of the improvements in WPF Diagrams 2 is to merge the old Flow Diagrams and Star Diagrams products into a single product. WPF Diagrams 2 brings together all the capabilities of cyclic and acyclic diagrams. with 2.0 you’re not limited to shape, flow and star diagrams: it is now it easier to define your own diagram types so if you’re building anything from a BPMN editor to a circuit diagramming solution, WPF Diagrams is the product for you.

Pre-built shapes
WPF Diagrams 2.0 has expanded the number of built in shapes. Nearly 80 shapes are pre-defined, from basic geometrical shapes like rectangles, stars and ellipses, through block arrows including curved arrows, callouts and multi-way callouts, to conventional flowchart and system design shapes like decisions, sort or merge operations, storage and the ever popular punched tape. Of course, you’re not limited to these shapes: it’s easy to define custom shapes so if you’re building the next Balsamiq clone or circuit diagramming solution you’ll be right at home with WPF Diagrams 2.0

Smarter layout options
2.0 has improved and added new layout algorithms for diagrams and connections, including an A* pathfinder for fast, non-colliding connection routing and a force based layout algorithm for that sproingy effect everyone loves so much. The layout classes now work with all diagrams, not just flow or star diagrams.

New toolbox control
Continuing the support for creating diagram nodes and connections from a toolbox, with a variety of interaction modes and handy previews. In WPF Diagrams 2.0 there is a dedicated toolbox control with grouping and filtering to make it easy to work with large numbers of node types.

Simpler API
The WPF Diagrams Foundation API provides a huge amount of flexibility, but many applications don’t need that flexibility. So for applications that just want to get it done, Mindscape have added a simpler API which makes it much easier to build shape-oriented diagramming applications. The new high-level API allow you to use pre-built shapes, define your own shapes and style your diagrams in just a few lines of XAML, without diving into the Foundation API. The existing API has also undergone a clean up. Mindscape have merged some overlapping properties, and significantly reworked the XML serialiser to make it easier to extend to support custom data and custom node types. These are breaking changes so if you are an existing 1.x user you may want to keep a copy of the 1.x DLLs around until you have time to migrate.

Mindscape WPF Diagrams Features:

• 80+ free shapes included
  With more than 80 shapes included in the box you'll be up and running in no time. Customize the existing shapes or add more of your own!
• Advanced background grids
  WPF Diagram includes many grid options: display grids, show major and minor lines, snap to the grid and much more. Snapping can be applied even when not displaying any grid and snapping options can also be configured.
• Customise all aspects of the diagram visuals
  As with all aspects of WPF Diagrams, developers can customise the look and behavior of nodes. Using standard WPF idioms, you can template nodes, connection lines, grids and the entire surface. Interactive nodes can also surface buttons and other such interactive elements.
• Panning and scrolling
  WPF Diagrams supports smooth panning and scrolling so that your users can navigate your diagrams with ease. It's also very easy to add a mini view that users can see their entire diagram from to make navigation easier.
• Connection path finding
  When dragging around nodes on a diagram surface with connection lines it's important to consider how those connections will be routed. Included with WPF Diagrams is several path finding systems such as the classic A* (a-star) routing or direct connections.
• Export to PNG, JPEG or BMP
  Simple one line export of diagrams to PNG, JPEG or BMP formats. Additional formats can be plugged in easily as needed.
• Easy to use printing capabilities
  Printing capabilities allow users to quickly print the diagram. Printing uses XPS format (WPF FixedDocument) so it's also easy to add print preview and other such features.
• Advanced layout capabilities
  Laying out your diagram is easy with the built in layout mechanisms. Hierarchical, grid based, force directed and tree layout systems. Adding your own layout systems or integrating with third party layout engines is easily achieved with the extensible layout API.
• Advanced toolbox control included
  When working with many different node types in an interactive mode your toolbox can become cluttered. WPF Diagrams 2 includes a complete toolbox solution with grouping, filtering and searching to make managing hundreds or thousands of node types easy.
• Saving and loading diagrams is easy
  WPF Diagrams includes serialization and deserialization capabilities meaning that saving and loading diagrams is easy with the Diagram Xml Serializer - save out to xml, or load from xml!
• Advanced zooming capabilities
  Zooming is supported in several ways - through command buttons or the mouse scoll wheel. Mouse wheel zooming can either be centered on the view port or, more naturally, at the cursor location. Mouse wheel zooming can also be optionally enabled by the use of a modifier key.
• Native WPF control
  Use Windows Presentation Foundation visual effects such as styling, composition and animation to incorporate WPF Diagrams into visually compelling user experiences. WPF Diagrams also support WPF data binding.
• Fully interactive mode
  Allow users to add, edit and delete elements of their diagrams. Drag and drop elements from the toolbox, or add custom handling. If interactivity is not required, read-only mode makes the diagram static.
• Snapping support
  The diagram surface can be configured to snap elements to guidelines if desired. Developers can customise the snap intervals or write their own snapping algorithm if desired. Snap lines can be shown as dots or lines, or with a custom display.
• Fully customisable
  Nearly all points of the WPF Diagram support extensibility - add new element types, custom connectors, custom path finding, custom background grids, custom image export - everything is at your disposal if you need it.
• Simple, royalty-free redistribution
  You can freely redistribute the WPF Diagram control with your application – no need for runtime licenses. The grid ships as DLL files and supports xcopy installation – no special installation steps are required.