We are refactoring some of our code so that annotations on shape nodes are drawn from an overridden Draw() rather than as attached nodes. The problem is that the annotations now are drawn outside of containers, instead of the containers sizing to fit the annotations.

I have tried overriding the GetBounds() method on the container and the shapenodes, but what happens is that when you highlight the container the bounds of the selection are smaller than the bounds of the container drawn...

Do you have any ideas on how to make this work?

That works well. Thank you.

Did you have the Obstacle property enabled for the attached nodes? We'll have to add some method that lets you define custom obstacles for routing, if you need the links routed around individual drawn annotations.

I realized we are doing some custom post-routing code in the LinkRouted event, so here is a screenshot of the difference without our post processing code turned on:

We use AutoShrink = true. Is there something I can override to force the size to be something?

Solving this problem through ContainerChildAdded/ContainerChildRemoved is going to require a lot of additional code to make sure container sizes stay up to date, such as after an annotation changes, when a node is moved inside of a container (NodeModified event), when a container is collapsed/uncollapsed, etc..

After glancing at the code, it would be a lot easier if the GetRotatedBounds() had a bool to indicate if this was being called by the routing code or not. OR, if there was a separate method such as GetRoutingBounds() to override..

In the source I changed GetRoutingBounds() to:
RectangleF GetRotatedBounds(bool bRoute = false)
and only passed in true in the four places it gets called in the routing code.

Could a solution like this, or something like GetRoutingBounds(), be added to a future release?