C# graph drawing library?

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I'm looking for a (free) library which allows me to draw a CFG (control flow graph). Something like yFiles, but free or preferably open source? Ideally this library would allow the user to navigate the graph (and modify it), i.e. the graph isn't just a static a priori rendered bitmap. Ideas?

Update:
Glee in combination with the mentioned QuickGraph library seems to work pretty nice. thx

Update2: Graph# seems to be the most powerful library currently. There is also a nice tutorial on how to use it.

GLEE is now called [Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/msagl/) (MSAGL). MSAGL is distributed in a binary form only. A commercial license has to be bought. — Sadeq Dousti, Jun 15 '11 at 01:28
I'm not sure about the solution, but maybe this could be useful also: https://github.com/komorra/NodeEditorWinforms — komorra, Mar 21 '16 at 20:43
The best commercial solution, in my point of view, is [yfiles.net](https://www.yworks.com/products/yfiles-net), see [demos](https://www.yworks.com/products/yfiles/demos). This is a good reference on how far this technology can go. — sɐunıɔןɐqɐp, Dec 23 '20 at 00:43

dommer · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-10T14:58:50.330

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You might want to check out QuickGraph.

NodeXL might also be of interest (visualization library). It's WPF, but you can use a container to host it if you need WinForms.

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answered Apr 10 '09 at 14:33

dommer

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Looks interesting, though this seems to be the "algorithm part", not the "visualization part", right? – newgre Apr 10 '09 at 14:36
Just added some info on NodeXL, which is a visualization API. – dommer Apr 10 '09 at 14:59
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NodeXL is a template for Excel, is it really suitable for c#? – kristianp Aug 11 '12 at 05:20

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 15 '11 at 01:43

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Try out this (Efficient Sugiyama algorithm is your friend):

Graph#

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answered May 17 '09 at 17:36

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '13 at 18:58

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https://graphx.codeplex.com/

Inspired by Graph#, actively developed and much more extensible.

answered May 16 '13 at 18:58

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It's free and open-source https://github.com/panthernet/GraphX – Alexander Smirnov May 23 '19 at 15:36

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '09 at 17:52

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I use GraphViz to generate this sort of graph. My app generates the .dot file that can then is then passed into GraphViz. It supports a load of file formats, such as bmp, jpg, png, pdf, svg etc etc.

answered May 17 '09 at 17:52

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C# graph drawing library?

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