WinForms and WPF Diagram Control (Coming soon in v15.2)

Nice work guys, great addition to a great toolset

Greate job! Will you support adding 'controls' as well?

Looks promising.  I sent an email to beta@.

WOW! I see a LOT of potential here!!

I'm currently using ILog Diagramming in LLBLGen Pro's designer (ILog was bought by IBM which killed the diagramming part right after that), and I'd love to use another diagramming library instead of ILog, but the features I'm looking for don't seem to be in your product for now it seems.

What I'm after is in particular:

- a way to create my own shapes, complex ones, so you can have a shape build from other shapes, like a list of fields inside a box with a header. If you can create a basic UML editor with it, you're good to go ;)

- a way to create a diagram with my shapes and connections between them which is laid out using an algorithm (configurable) and which layout can be altered by the user (move shapes around).

IMHO there are two kinds of applications for diagramming tooling: 1) showing a diagram with custom shapes in whatever form, build by software and 2) giving the user a canvas onto which the user can create a diagram (like the one in the picture), like in visio, using simple shapes, which have a form and a text label.

Hope this helps :)

Great!, now support a background image too please!

Great news!  Have two projects already in mind.

Great work guys. Another great addition to an already great tool set.

Amazing, a great control, exactly what I was looking for.

Really really great addition. Another reason why DevExpress is the right choice for me...

Webforms?

On what time would you release the Version 15.2?

Excellent, I definitely will use this new component. I rekon to use it for visualize my workflow status. Each node should have capability to display text / picture / Badge and can handle click/ double click event.

It will be nice if we can save /restore/ parsing to xml the control layout.

Any plan to implement the diagram viewer for asp.net?

Cool.

It would be nice to implement a feature to implement a custom algorithm to place items on the canvas (the automatic routing algorithm?). Currently I have an app where I visualise (goods) flows. In there I use a derived Kozo Sugiyama style to determine positions of shapes and (path of) lines in order to minimise crossed lines.

It would be also nice to have a zoom control/window just like the MapControl has.

Excellent addition , thank you

Hope it supports writing RTL text within the shapes with no problem , even like a memo edit from left to right but the letters are still displaying correct at the end. (Im talking about Arabic language)

Thanks

Nice start, but don't forget that we need this in ASP.Net too!

Also, in future blogs, I'm very interested in the databinding aspects.

Great news what an addition to the suite :)

It's ideal if you can link this diagram with the concept of Business Process Model (you can consult the web site www.bpmn.org) or integrate with workflow management (you can consult the web site www.processmaker.com)

We're looking forward to it!

Does it support automatic layout?

W00t!

this is great

Like Ngo Tung and DHOUIB Walid,

can imagine a solution for XAF (StateMachine module) to display and edit transitions. or making an own "Windows Workflow" module, without the overhead of WF4 (and its pitfalls).

Processes are hard to visualize (and edit) so it would be cool to "validate" a node when a connection is made.

As always, awesome work guys!

This is really great. I can think of some great enhancements to my current application with some modifications.

Will you attach events to each shape and path?

I'm so looking forward to using this new control. Great job!!

Actually I'm looking for a third party's diagram control as there is no one from DevExpress yet. My plan is combine "state machine" from Xaf with a GUI to visualize tasks and transitions for users. How about this?

Excelent! Congrats it's a great addition

As some others have mentioned:

- Integrate with Business Process Management

- Make available in ASP.NET MVC

- Integrate with Windows Workflow

Was waiting for such a control for long. You are doing a really great job.

Our plan is to use them in generating our company organogram or building it dynamically from HR data stored.

thanks for the feature, looking forward to improving it

Automatically generating org chart off related data would be wonderful.

I would like to say - yeah - great. Some features I like, if not yet implemented:

* Add support for custom controls within a shape (a container)

* Add layout interface, so anyone can provide algorithms

* Add BPM shapes and swimlanes

* Add a grid shape so it will be easy to extend upon it (UML shapes)

* Add layers

I plan to use it for my modeldriven stuff and add a nice graphical representation.

@lollisoft

Great work

Please support an image in items and support org diagram with image

We have a home brew tool in our app.  It is for in house work and so ... its pretty rough.  Our application is slightly different but its a close fit: visualized construction and monitoring of objects and connections between those objects.

Many of the same concepts apply,

1) drop on custom shapes that represent different widgets

2) connect shapes with directed edges

3) set fields / configure the widgets

4) auto-layout of the shapes based on connections between shapes

This kind of applications needs:

1) graph routing or perhaps more flexible, a mechanism on which we could add custom auto-layout of the shapes and edges en.wikipedia.org/.../Graph_drawing

2) would be nice:  animated shapes.  Ability to add independent text fields to each shape that we can update on a timer.  Ability to animate visual indicators on the shapes - grouped shapes?

Thanks for your work.

I vote for implementation in ASP.NET too...