Are there programmatic ways of generating flowcharts?

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Preferably in .NET but I'm open to anything. I'm thinking of something where you would declare nodes and paths to nodes and you would render it as a graphic.

possible duplicate of [C# flowchart control](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5822733/c-sharp-flowchart-control) — Ian Mercer, Jun 29 '12 at 00:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '12 at 00:32

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Maybe FlowChart.NET would be of interest to you.

answered Jun 29 '12 at 00:32

Marius Schulz

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And now I look like an idiot :-) – Matt Jun 29 '12 at 00:32

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 29 '12 at 00:40

I have used SyncFusion's diagram tool. They have one for Winforms, WPF, Silverlight and ASP.

I am currently using Nevron's. Theirs is for Winforms and ASP.

Depending on your needs, Codeplex has an open source one called NShape.

CodeProject also has an open source one. I have not yet played with either of these.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 29 '12 at 15:48

Most great tools for this task are commercial, some of which have already been mentioned. Another option is yFiles which is available for Windows Forms, WPF, and Silverlight currently. The website has a number of nice online demos for Silverlight (and screencasts for WPF and Forms) and you can evaluate the software, too, of course.

I like the Silverlight BPMN demo a lot: http://www.yworks.com/products/yfilessilverlight/Demo.yFiles.Graph.BusinessProcessDiagram.html

Are there programmatic ways of generating flowcharts?

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