Overview

• Redistribution is royalty free
• Assembly is strong-named
• Digitally signed
• Is written in C#
• Document / View Architecture
• Can be purchased with source code

User Interaction

• Several user interaction modes
• Node modification constraints
• Scrolling and zooming
• Panning
• Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse
• Alignment to grid
• Interactive node alignment
• Multiple selection
• Tool-tips
• Docking points can be defined for nodes
• Mouse button mapping

Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections
• Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior
• Numerous utility methods
• Rich event set

Store and Retrieve Diagrams into/from

• Files on disk
• .NET streams
• ASCII strings
• XML documents

Output

• Display via Windows Forms
• Printing and print preview
• To browser via the utility WebChart library
• Create bitmap images
• Create HTML image maps

Import and Export

• Export images in BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG formats

Diagram Elements

• Control hosts allow using .NET controls as diagram nodes
• More than 100 predefined node shapes
• Map nodes
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns
• BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) shapes
• Merge of table cells
• Container Nodes
• Custom diagram item types
• Arrows can comprise multiple segments
• Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves
• Assign diagram items to layers
• Display maps from ESRI shapefiles

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

• Radial layout
• Directional tree layout

Appearance

• Node visual effects
• 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
• Shape libraries
• User-assigned mouse cursors
• Custom painting of nodes
• Shadows
• Arcs over link intersection points
• Transparent nodes
• Invisible nodes
• Barcode nodes
• Map nodes
• Swimlane diagrams
• Styles and themes
• More than 40 predefined themes

Diagram Structure

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

Hierarchical Grouping

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