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Diagrams

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The XtraDiagrams suite provides components that allow you and your end-users to create and display diagrams of various types and styles.

Learn the Basics

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The XtraDiagrams Suite provides components that allow you and your end-users to create and display diagrams of various types and styles.

Diagram Designer

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The Diagram Designer provides a visual interface to help you design new and modify existing diagrams, 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

Diagram Items

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The Diagram Control is shipped with 130 diagram shapes and the ability to define custom ones. 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.

Automatic Layout

Tree Layout

Tree Layout

Layered (Sugiyama) Layout

Layered (Sugiyama) Layout

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

Data Binding Functionality

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

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