Chapter 1. Introducing yFiles.NET Viewer

Table of Contents

yFiles.NET Library Components
yFiles.NET Viewer
Programming Samples, Tutorials, and Further yFiles.NET Resources
How to Read this Developer's Guide
Where to Find Things in yFiles.NET Viewer
yFiles.NET Assemblies

This chapter presents the yFiles.NET Viewer library component, which is part of the yFiles.NET Viewer and yFiles.NET Complete distributions. It briefly discusses possible ways of reading the Developer's Guide, and lastly gives an overview on the namespaces and their provided functionality.

yFiles.NET Library Components

yFiles.NET Viewer

yFiles.NET Viewer provides a powerful graph control for the .NET environment, which offers

  • excellent rendering and interaction performance,
  • convenient printing capabilities, and
  • image file output to a variety of image file formats.

The control allows for flexible customizations of nearly all aspects regarding rendering of and interaction with graphical objects.

Additional functionality of yFiles.NET Viewer includes support for the GraphML graph exchange file format.