Diagram Control

Apr 01, 2021
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The DevExpress WPF Diagram Control provides components that allow you and your end-users to create and display diagrams of various types and styles.

Diagram Designer

The Diagram Designer provides a visual interface to help you design new diagrams and modify existing ones, save diagrams to a file and load previously saved diagrams. Key features include:

Built-in Visio-inspired diagram themes. Ability to create custom themes.
Saving diagrams to and restoring them from storage, as well as printing and exporting to image files (PNG, JPEG, BMP and GIF).
MVVM Support

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Diagram Items

The Diagram Control is shipped with 130 diagram shapes and the ability to define custom shapes. Our customizable Visio inspired connectors support automatic routing algorithms.

Shape drag-and-drop
Shape sizing and rotating
Raster and SVG image items
Containers
Diagram zooming
Cut/Copy/Paste operations
Undo and Redo functionality
Snapping to grid and other shapes
In-place text editing

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Automatic Layout

Tree Layout

Layered (Sugiyama) Layout

The DevExpress Diagram Control provides the ability to automatically arrange shapes using one of the predefined drawing algorithms. This feature allows you and your end-users to quickly and effectively generate drawings, which can be manually fine-tuned afterwards.

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Data Binding Functionality

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The DevExpress Diagram Control is shipped with powerful tools to generate diagrams from a data source.

Generating Diagrams from a Data Source
Generating Organization Charts
Item Template Designer Tool
Support for various data source technologies including ADO.NET data sets, Entity Framework data, WCF Data Services, LINQ To SQL, DevExpress ORM Tool (XPO).

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Topic : Data Binding Functionality