- Introduction To Essential® Diagram
- Prerequisites and Compatibility
- Documentation
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Windows Forms Diagram Overview
29 Nov 20244 minutes to read
This section covers information on Essential® Diagram control, its key features, and prerequisites to use the control, its compatibility with various OS and browsers and finally the documentation details complimentary with the product. It comprises the following sub sections:
Introduction To Essential® Diagram
Essential® Diagram is an extensible and high-performance .NET Diagramming Framework for Windows Applications. It can be used for developing Microsoft Visio-like interactive graphics and diagramming applications. It stores graphical objects in a node graph and renders those objects onto the screen. Essential® Diagram supports both vector and raster graphics on the drawing surface.
Essential® Diagram lets users create interactive diagrams easily using the Diagram Builder utility included with the Diagram. It explicitly lays out diagram objects, or allows our built-in layout managers to handle the job, making complex layout diagrams a snap. Using the Symbol Designer utility, you can create domain or business specific symbols by using custom shapes and images.
Key Features
Some of the key features of Essential® Diagram are listed below.
- Essential® Diagram supports Matrix Transformations likeTranslate (Move), Rotate and Scale.
- Shape nodes are the graphical objects that can be drawn on the diagram area by activating one of several drawing tools such as the RectangleTool, RoundRectTool, EllipseTool, LineTool, PolylineTool, OrthogonalLineTool, BezierTool, CurveTool, ArcTool and PolygonTool.
- DecoratorShape can be added at the head and tail of Connectors. The shapes include arrows, circles, diamonds, crosses, squares and custom decorators.
- Essential® Diagram supports rendering TextNodes and RichTextNodes, and offers full text formatting through sufficient properties. Text editing and text rotation are also supported.
- Zooming, scrolling, and panning are supported and can be achieved using sufficient interactive diagram tools.
- Automatic Line Routing and Line Bridging: while a link is drawn between two nodes and if any other node is found in between them, the line will be automatically re-routed around those nodes.
- The PrintDialog class enables the user to set the printer to be used, and allows to define the pages and the number of copies to be printed.
- The PrintPreviewDialog class provides an overview of how the document will appear when printed, which is invoked using the ShowDialog method.
- PaletteGroupBar control is a WinForm control that can be added to the Visual Studio .NET toolbox. It has the following capabilities:
- It displays list of symbols in a symbol palette as icons
- It allows user to drag symbols onto diagrams
- It supports multiple symbol palettes at a time
- It has a user interface similar to Microsoft Outlook bar
- It is implemented based on the Syncfusion® GroupBar and GroupView controls
User Guide Organization
The product comes with numerous samples as well as an extensive documentation to guide you. This User Guide provides detailed information on the features and functionalities of the Tools controls. It is organized into the following sections:
- Overview - This section gives a brief introduction to our product and its key features.
- Installation and Deployment - This section elaborates on the install location of the samples, license etc.
- What’s New - This section lists the new features implemented for every release.
- Getting Started - This section guides you on getting started with Windows application, controls etc.
- Concepts and Features - The features of Essential® Diagram are illustrated with use case scenarios, code examples and screen shots under this section.
Document Conventions
The conventions listed below will help you to quickly identify the important sections of information, while using the content:
| Convention | Icon | Description |
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| Example | Example | Represents an example |
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Represents useful hints that will help you in using the controls/features |
| Additional Information |
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Represents additional information on the topic |
Prerequisites and Compatibility
This section covers the requirements mandatory for using Essential® Diagram control. It also lists operating systems and browsers compatible with the product.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites details are listed below:
| Development Environments | .NET Framework versions |
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Compatibility
The compatibility details are listed below:
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Documentation
Syncfusion® provides the following documentation segments to provide all necessary information for using Essential® Diagram control in Windows application in an efficient manner.
| Type of documentation | Location |
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| Readme | [drive:]\Program Files\Syncfusion®\Essential Studio\x.x.x.x\Infrastructure\Data\Release Notes\readme.htm |
| Release Notes | [drive:]\Program Files\Syncfusion®\Essential Studio\x.x.x.x\Infrastructure\Data\Release Notes\Release Notes.htm |
| User Guide (this document) |
Online https://help.syncfusion.com/windowsforms/diagram/overview (Navigate to the Diagram for Windows Forms User Guide.)> Note: Click Download as PDF to access a PDF version. Installed DocumentationDashboard -> Documentation -> Installed Documentation. |
| Class Reference |
Online https://help.syncfusion.com/cr/windowsforms/Syncfusion.html (Navigate to the Windows Forms User Guide. SelectDiagram in the second text box, and then click the Class Reference link found in the upper right section of the page.)Installed DocumentationDashboard -> Documentation -> Installed Documentation. |
NOTE
You can refer to our WinForms Diagram control feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WinForms Diagram example that shows you how to render and configure the Diagram.