Creating Visio Oriented Charts

Question

I need to programmatically create diagrams like Visio as a drawing. Basically we are going to create network layout schemes like this one .

Is there a component that could speed up development or some technique that we could use? Typically, we could do this on our own through System.Drawing, but it can be difficult for more complex network diagrams, since we would have to ensure that there are no visual overlaps.

UPDATE: No Visio. UPDATE 2: I would really like it if it were eye candy

Answer 1

ConceptDraw has eye candy graphics, awesome if you need it for presentations. There is a quick drawing method for network templates, and you can change the diagrams as needed.

Answer 2

Have you looked at the Visio API? It has a VBA function. In order to recreate Visio functionality using the System.Drawing classes, one could get a rather complicated task and require effort with the help of herculean.

Answer 3

Graphviz ...

Answer 4

WPF CodeProject. , , WPF .