Diagram Control
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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.
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Learn about capabilities of the Diagram Control.
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Describes operations available to end-users.
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Contains a variety of task-based examples.
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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Topic: Diagram Designer
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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Topic: Diagram Items
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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Topic: Automatic Layout
Data Binding Functionality
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