Nevron Diagram for .NET Q3 2006 - Released

The product is based on the solid Model – View – Controller architecture, which ensures the scalability of its object model. The API has been thoroughly refined to be as native and intuitive as possible.

Nevron Diagram for .NET comes with an extensive Document Object Model (DOM), which can help you model virtually any type of diagram. The DOM implements core diagramming elements, such as drawing documents, library documents, masters, layers, shapes, groups, connectors, ports etc. You can easily subclass any DOM element and extend its capabilities. Drawings can be exported to various raster and scalable graphics formats (.png, .bmp, .jpg, .svg etc.). Documents can be serialized in XML, binary and SOAP formats. Implemented are a lot of automatic layouts. Drawings can be displayed in both WinForm and WebForm views.

WinForm views are highly extensible controls, which support a lot of interactive features like: moving and resizing shapes, connecting – disconnecting connectors, selection highlighting, drag drop previews etc. The build-in grid and rulers help you precisely align and resize shapes. Another advanced feature is the snapping to multiple objects from both the DOM and the view. WinForm views can be extended with the help of tools. There is already a myriad of tools for creating new shapes, panning, zooming etc.

WebForm views are designed to help you seamlessly display interactive diagram documents in ASP.NET environment. WebForm views can output static images, SVG content and interactive image maps.

What’s new in version Q3 2006

New shapes
Simple Network shapes - tailored to meat the requirements of the developers, which want to display large network diagrams, which need a low level of detail for the individual network particles.

Electrical Symbols shapes - added were many electical symols shapes, which will facilitate the display of simple and complex electrical schemes.

Floor Plan shapes - these shapes target the users, which need to display floor plans. The floor plan shapes are defined in their actual size.

Country Flags shapes - general purspose shapes, which represent country flags.

Improvements and API changes
Nevron Diagram for .NET has been integrated with the new geometry objects in the Nevron Presentation Framework. As a result all properties and methods, which required System.Drawing.RectangleF, System.Drawing.PointF and System.Drawing.SizeF structures has been changed to Nevron.GraphicsCore.NRectangleF, Nevron.GraphicsCore.NPointF and Nevron.GraphicsCore.NSizeF. The Nevron.Diagram.NMatrix2D structure has been changed to Nevron.GraphicsCore.NMatrix2DF structure.
This change was made due to needed performance optimizations in the implementation of these fundamental structures and because their current implementation in the .NET framework lacks many important features and properties. One of the major advantages of using the new geometry structures is that the diagram is now better serialized in XML.