What would you like to see in a WPF diagramming component?
Tagged as WPFWe’ve been doing some customer projects with WPF which have involved a bit of diagramming and visualization work, and we’re now beginning to build some of that work out into a developer component. We’ve got some ideas about what should be in the product based on our experience, but diagramming is a very wide topic, and we know our experiences only scratches the surface of what is possible! So we’re keen to hear from the community what you’d like to see in a diagramming component. What sort of use cases might you have for such a product? What features would it absolutely have to have? What features would you really like to see above those core necessities? What type of diagrams do you want to be creating?
We are currently undertaking prototyping work so getting feedback during this stage has a direct impact on the final product and means we can factor in your feedback more easily.
If you’ve got an opinion, a suggestion or a request, post in the comments or email us via the contact form!
Posted by Ivan Towlson on 31 July 2008 
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I would like to be able to draw cyclic diagrams, not just acyclic graphs
I would like to have node templates
I would like to have the ability to expand the mesh a piece at time
I would like to have controls not just for the nodes/vertexes but also for the edges
I would like to have some out-of-the-box layout capabilities but also to have the ability to inject my own layout generator
I’ve been using flot for some web projects and have found people quite like the overview/zooming features (http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/zooming.html) … so I’d be looking for basic selection support, with the ability to fix the x or y positions (for vertical or horizontal only selections)… pretty elementary feature though, I imagine you’ve already got it on the drawing board :)
Maybe it is some kind of other diagram but i would like to have multi-value, real time, trending diagrams, with possibility to add historical data, and the possibility set min-max Y to scope a range. And a movable line to get exact data at any point of time.
I would like to see workflow diagrams and the ability to read a XPDL schema