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Diagramming for WPF 3.0.1

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MindFusion has released a new version of its Diagramming component for Wpf. Most of the new features are requested by customers. Here are details:

Preserve order in tree layout
You can set the Balance property of the TreeLayout to Preserve to keep the original geometric order of child nodes when arranging them under their parent. You can use this to arrange tree branches in a specific order by first positioning them in increasing horizontal or vertical positions.

The tree layout.

The tree layout.

Selection improvements

  • When you set the Behavior property to SelectOnly users can select existing items, but not modify them or draw new ones.
  • Use the SetsDirtyFlag property of the Selection class to specify whether the Dirty flag should be set when selection changes.
  • SelectionStartMoving event is raised when the user begins moving multiple selected items.
  • You can use the ToggleSelection modifier key to select or deselect items by clicking, but selection via lasso rectangle is disabled.
Container nodes

Container nodes

Miscellaneous

You can find details about this release at the news page in the MindFusion forum. A trial version is available for immediate download from the following link:

Download MindFusion.Diagramming for WPF 3.0.1

The download contains all runtime libraries of the control, various samples for different .NET versions, extensive desktop documentation and step-by-step tutorials.

If you face difficulties installing or using Diagramming for Wpf, please contact MindFusion support team per e-mail or phone. You can also use the forum or help desk. All support inquiries are answered within hours of receiving them.

About MindFusion.Diagramming for Wpf: Designed and developed to be easy to integrate, use, and customize, this native WPF component places at your disposal every single feature you’d ever need to create flowcharts, diagrams, graphs, schemes, DB relationships, trees and many more. Its long list of style options gives you complete control over the appearance of the diagram. With a set of eight automatic layouts you are sure to choose the best arrangement for your items and make the diagram easy to comprehend.

The control boasts a long list of events, properties and methods for user interaction, item creation, data input and output. You can read the full features list here. The online demo shows samples that demonstrate various capabilities of the control – click here. The licensing scheme and prices are uploaded at the buy page. Source code is also available.

Charting for WPF 1.8

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MindFusion has released a new version of its Charting component for Wpf with the following new features:

Styles and Themes
Styles define the appearance of individual chart elements such as the axis, the series and the legend. Each ChartTheme contains a collection of styles and defines the appearance of the whole chart. The new version lets you:

  • create themes based on the appearance of an existing chart;
  • create themes with the ThemeEditor tool;
  • save themes to XML files;
  • load themes from XML files;
  • use a number of predefined themes.

The “Working with Themes” tutorial gives detailed information on how to create, save, load and edit themes with MindFusion.Charting for WPF.

The green theme

The green theme

Improved Design Time Support
You can now edit all collection properties, including the Series collection, the brushes and strokes in design time through the property grid.

Axis Intervals
The new AxisSettings.IntervalCount property lets you specify the exact number of intervals at the axis. In such case, the control does not use the Interval property and calculates the value of each interval based on AxisSettings.Min, AxisSettings.Max and AxisSettings.IntervalCount properties.

You can read further details about the release and the other new features at the news section in the Charting forum. A trial version is available for download from here:

Download MindFusion.Charting for WPF 1.8 Trial Version

You are welcome to contact us with any questions, problems or inquiries about the Charting for Wpf control or any other of our products. MindFusion has always put special emphasis on providing excellent customer support and we usually answer your inquiries in a few hours of receiving them.

About MindFusion.Charting for Wpf: A programming component that combines powerful charting capabilities with an elegant API and easy use. Among the features of the control are fully customizable grid, positive and negative values on all chart axes, 3D charts, gauges and many more – read a detailed list here.

The control provides detailed documentation and various samples that demonstrate how to customize every type of chart. It supports a wide range of 2D and 3D charts including bar, line, radar, bubble pie etc. You can add tooltips, define themes, perform hit testing, zoom and more.

MindFusion.Scheduling Pack R1.2013

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MindFusion has just released a new version of its Scheduling Pack. Here are details about the new features in the components that are included in the pack:

Visual Studio 2012 support

MindFusion.Scheduling Pack R1.2013 supports Visual Studio 2012. The installer can create VS2012 toolbox palette for the components, and can optionally install VS2012 sample projects. In addition, toolbox palettes are now created for all .NET target frameworks supported by the respective Visual Studio versions.

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  • Interactive resize of items in all views.
  • Some of the CSS classes have been renamed to provide better consistency across themes. Check the updated CSS Classes topic for details.
  • The bundled jQuery version has been upgraded to 1.9.
A sample monthly schedule.

A sample monthly schedule.

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Exporting
You can now export calendars to PDF files with the new PdfExporter.

Improved Custom Drawing
Items, including their shadows, can now be completely custom-drawn through the new ItemDrawing event. The
ItemDrawing event is raised before the item is rendered by the system and can be used to prevent the default item rendering. Two new events added to the Calendar class signal the start and end of the item drawing phase respectively – BeginItemDrawing and EndItemDrawing.

Miscellaneous

  • All resource collections now implement IList where T is the type of resources in the collection.
  • The GetExactDateAt method works more consistently in various scenarios.
  • Custom texts and icons can be supplied to the Print Preview form of the scheduling reports.
  • All texts within the calendar can be customized explicitly through the new CustomizeText event of the Calendar class.

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Improved item presenter
The ItemPresenter class now provides the start and end time of the represented item fragment through the new StartTime and EndTime properties. In addition, derived classes can override the new OnStartTimeChanged, OnEndTimeChanged, and OnItemPropertyChanged methods to get notified when the StartTime or EndTime properties change or when any property of the underlying item changes.

Item recurrence

Item recurrence

Improved recurrence
The Recurrence class exposes a new event – ValidateOccurrence, which can be used to validate and customize the occurrences of a recurrence pattern.