Diagramming and charting in Silverlight apps

06/11/2011 - Tampa, Perpetuum Software LLC announces the release of a brand new product to provide your Silverlight application with user-friendly diagramming capabilities, SharpShooter Diagrams. The component is intended for adding graphs, flowcharts, business process diagrams, organization charts and so on to your Silverlight application. Component for a user, not a user for the component… Up-to-date technologies tend to focus on average users who don"t have any special skills in computing. Usability and simplicity in use - that are the major advantages today. SharpShooter Diagrams is a user-friendly component which allows a user to create flow charts, org charts and other diagram types on the fly. All manipulations are performed by the users are seen on the screen immediately. The user can scroll, zoom, rotate, and change size of any graph or group of graphs with few mouse clicks. It is possible to save the diagram or chart to XML or print it. A user will also estimate 200 predesigned shapes that are not just static images, but complex objects with plenty of properties setting up their appearance and behavior in the designer. It is also possible to use BPMN (Business Process Management Notation) shapes. Unique algorithm for automatic links layout with minimum intersections and turnings of link routes doesn"t overelaborate the diagram. Thus, all the information is presented in the clear, legible manner. However, the work of developers should be also convenient. SharpShooter Diagrams is easily integrated into the Silverlight 4 applications. The customization of the graph behavior can be set from the application code. Virtually any aspect of the design-time behavior of any diagram objects (adorners, in-place editors, etc.) can be changed. Simple object model of the diagram allows manipulating diagram structure and all its properties from code. SharpShooter Diagrams provides convenient solution for representation of data in the form of diagrams, flowcharts, business process diagrams which visualize the essential data for decision making. Download SharpShooter Diagrams: About Perpetuum Software: Perpetuum Software LLC is a premier developer of .NET components and libraries for reporting, data analysis, and visualization intended for the creation of corporate applications in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight. Thousands of enterprises in more than 70 countries use Perpetuum Software products to build robust applications and use them across all the main industries: from retail to aerospace. The company stands as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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