Chapter 1. Introducing yFiles WPF Viewer

Table of Contents

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

This chapter presents the yFiles WPF Viewer library component, which is part of the yFiles WPF Viewer and yFiles WPF 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 WPF Library Components

yFiles WPF Viewer

yFiles WPF Viewer provides a powerful graph control for the Windows Presentation Foundation, 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 WPF Viewer includes support for the GraphML graph exchange file format.