Diagram Control

Learn the Basics

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

• Getting Started

  Learn about capabilities of the Diagram Control.

• End-User Interaction

  Describes operations available to end-users.

• Examples

  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

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

Automatic 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.

• Automatic Layout
• Re-Layout Subordinates

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).