yFiles WPF Product Types

yFiles WPF is available in two different distributions.

Distribution Types

Viewer Distribution

The Viewer distribution contains only the yFiles WPF Viewer component.

Complete Distribution

The Complete distribution contains the yFiles WPF Viewer component and an Algorithms component with the yFiles graph analysis and layout algorithms.

In addition, this distribution contains adapter classes that facilitate the usage of the yFiles algorithms from the Viewer library.

Distribution Features

The following table provides an overview of the features of the yFiles WPF distributions.

		yFiles WPF Distribution
		Viewer	Complete
Algorithms Component	efficient algorithms-oriented graph structure implementation
	wide variety of graph and network algorithms
	algorithms for automatic layout of graphs and diagrams
	algorithms for automatic layout of connections in diagrams
	automatic label placement
Viewer Component	efficient graph structure implementation with support for the visual representation of graph elements
	powerful graph viewer component for the presentation and creation/editing of diagrams
	extensive user interaction support
	support for nested graph structures
	support for diverse input/output file formats for diagrams and export-only image file formats
	printing support, incl. poster printing
	animations and layout morphing

yFiles WPF Building Blocks

The yFiles WPF distributions consist of the following building blocks:

The yFiles WPF Viewer component provides powerful WPF controls for displaying graphs, and makes available excellent graph interaction capabilities with the controls, convenient printing capabilities, and export to a variety of output formats.

The controls can display arbitrary graphical objects based on a graphics engine tailored to support both flexible customization and high performance rendering of complex graphics.

yFiles WPF makes it easy to add custom editing functionality to your WPF application. The library offers full clipboard and Undo/Redo support.

The graphics displayed in the yFiles WPF graph controls can be exported to a variety of bitmap based image formats or to the vector based XPS format.

yFiles WPF uses the XML based GraphML format as its native exchange file format for graph structure and layout information.

With yFiles WPF, high quality printing support can be easily integrated into your application.

The Algorithms component that comes bundled in the Complete distribution is identical to the yFiles.NET Algorithms component and offers the same functionality for both the graph analysis as well as the automatic layout algorithms.

Please see the description of the yFiles.NET Algorithms component on the yFiles.NET product types page for more information.