DiagramLite adds swimlanes

DiagramLite provides applications targeting the Silverlight platform with the ability to create and display various kinds of diagram. DiagramLite supports workflow, flowchart and process diagrams, object hierarchy and relationship charts, entity-relationship diagrams, structures like graphs and trees, etc. Every behavioral and appearance aspect of DiagramLite can be customized as best suits your project. DiagramLite's Diagram objects can have different styles, colors, fonts and pictures. DiagramLite's programming model comprises more than 300 methods, properties and events. Source Code is available. DiagramLite now supports Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Updates in V2.0

• Swimlanes
  The lane grid lets you emphasize the relationship between a group of diagram items by displaying them in a distinct lane or cell within the grid. To display the lane grid, set the EnableLanes property of the Diagram class to true. In order to customize the grid, set the various attributes exposed by the LaneGrid property, which lets you specify the number of rows and columns, add headers, customize the cell appearance, etc. The new Lanes sample project uses the lane grid to let users draw Gantt charts.
• Swimlane Layout
  Swimlane layout can be used to arrange process diagrams in which nodes representing activities are placed in swimlanes representing resources. The index of the resource allocated to an activity should be assigned to the corresponding node's LayoutTraits[SwimlaneLayoutTraits.Lane].
• Cascade Layout
  Cascade layout places nodes on a virtual grid and arranges links orthogonally, such that if the source graph is planar all links are guaranteed to have no more than two bends and will not intersect. By default the layout method arranges nodes in rows and link segments in columns; this can be changed by setting the Orientation property.
• Triangular Layout
  Triangular layout places nodes on a virtual grid, such that if the source graph is planar, all links are guaranteed to have a single segment and not intersect. If the graph is not planar, its intersecting links can be optionally segmented and bended in order to improve readability. The layout method places the nodes from the external face on a triangle and recursively adds the rest of the nodes as vertices of internal triangles. As a result, it is very effective for near maximal-planar (a.k.a. triangular) graphs.
• Hierarchical Layout
  Hierarchical layout places nodes on user-defined levels, such that if the source graph is level-planar, all links are guaranteed to have a single segment and not intersect. The layout method requires that for each node LayoutTraits contains a HierarchicalLayoutTraits.Level entry specifying the level, and no two connected nodes must be on the same level.
• Miscellaneous
  • Windows Phone 7 assemblies included.
  • OrtogonalLayout results have been greatly improved for nonplanar graphs.
  • In-place edit operations for links and the LinkDoubleClicked event are now triggered also when the TextBlock that displays link's label is double clicked. Older versions detected double clicks only over link segments.
  • Gradients set as CaptionBackBrush now fill only the caption bar of a table.
  • SelectionMoving validation event added.
  • The CancelDrag method allows cancelling draw operations at any time.
  • TextAlignment property added to the Cell class.
  • The Bounds property of nodes is now a dependency property.
  • The KeepInsideParent constraint allows confining a node inside the boundaries of its Container.
  • AllowMoveStart and AllowMoveEnd properties added to DiagramLink.

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