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I want to visualize components and connections of a HVAC system with .NET/C#.
The diagrams will just include a few different components and their connections.
They do not have to comply to any formal standard and should look alike the diagrams attached. In addition the user should be able to select a single component/connection (so that I can display additional data).
Which free drawing/charting library would you use and why?
Thanks for your time.
Julian,
Please check out GraphSharp: http://graphsharp.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx
Small/open source C# library on Git renders to HTML5 (You can modify to render to for example WPF or Winform as well)
https://gridwizard.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/simple-c-library-to-render-graph-to-flowchart
I would try to host VS studio designer in application , how you can host workflow designer for instance. Read about VS extensibilities
It doesn't get more free than System.Drawing...
Seriously, given your requirements I'm not sure you need a framework or library. The most complex part of the system you describe is drawing the lines between components. If that doesn't have to get fancy (automatic layout, detecting where the lines overlay other lines/boxes) then you can probably roll the whole thing custom.
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Due to the nature of the keywords, I find it difficult to easily google this. I want to implement a "help" item on the menu bar that will launch some basic documentation for the user to read, after I have written it. Are there any standards or libraries I should be aware about before diving into this aspect? The program incorporating the "help" functionality will be a C# WPF Desktop application.
Example from MS Word :
I'm sure they don't reinvent the wheel every time they use the help function, and I don't want to either. Where can I look to find something open source that is similar to this functionality and maybe some general guidelines on how to write help for non-technical and technical users?
I think that following links should be useful for you.
Using F1 Help (CHM format) With WPF
how to create a chm help file for WPF Application? http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/ce323cdb-5f9c-49d0-910e-81d2bba51d4d/context-sensitive-help-in-wpf?forum=wpf
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I need something to create 3D surface charts in ASP.Net. Could anyone recommend a 3rd party component set? I also do not want to use Giga Soft's, Nevron's, or ComponentOne's components. I am open to non-free solutions.
This is a good question.
I have performed a search/watch for my company few months ago and it is a cruel lack.
Personnaly I would not go for expensive third party solutions as they are seriously overpriced IMHO. Most of them do not give enough interactivity and are full of flourish while lacking the real features that one could expect from a decent 3D Surface.
I've ended up using ILNumerics which is fully open source (and even contributed a bit to the project). It's Winforms, but you could port it to ASP by tweaking a bit.
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I suggest Dundas Charting because of its stability and easy to use system
It provide different kinds of charts and work great with / without SQL Server Reporting Services, it has dynamic and static reports so that you user can build his report on the fly with your current reports.
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I am looking for some sort of API similar to Photoshop functionality, I need to create an image using layers/masks/filters programmatically.
An example: I know how to make a nice button in Photoshop, there is a sequence of simple actions. What I want is to automate this process and generate an image of the button on the fly with a few input parameters.
I think I am not the first one who came up with such idea, there must be some library out there that does this thing. Unfortunately I cannot find anything.
Thanks!
You failed to mention if the library needs to be free/open source or if commercial libraries are acceptable but one of the best out there is GdPicture.NET. I doubt you'll find anything free that is remotely comprehensive but a good free one is Filters library (LGPL).
i don't think there is an API like this
but there is free open source software which is Paint.net
get it here
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
see source code here
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/source_codes/paint.net.cfm
hope it helped
GDI+ in .NET?
Although I haven't used them you could take a look at:
Emgu CV: http://www.emgu.com/wiki/index.php/Emgu_CV
or OpenCvSharp : http://code.google.com/p/opencvsharp/
ImageMagic have layers support http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/ and there is Net wrapper
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Following this question from last year. I am checking two open source ribbon controls:
Fluent
Odyssey
Do you have any experience (good or bad) with any of them? or perhaps know of another open source ribbon control?
Follow up:
After using both of them, I gave up Odyssey cause it had a lot of bugs. I then switched to Fluent and I have only good words to say about it.
I've been trialling the WPF toolkit. Bear in mind - it's not open source per se - you don't get the source code. However, I believe it is free for use etc.
It's reasonably easy to use and has some reasonable commanding support. The documentation is not particularly in-depth, but it looks good - same as the ribbon used in Office 2007 etc. and has a few themes.
I'd say give it a look before spending money on a third party commercial ribbon control.
there is one included in the WPF toolkit dont know how good/bad it it. we use one that we bought.
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I need to minify some C# code in a handful of Silverlight .cs and .xmal files. What are your tips for maintaining one code base and running a "tool" to generate minified code for a project?
Are there any tools (like Resharper) that will do this? If not fully, partially or assist in some way...
EDIT: I realize that there is no need for C# minification. This is an exercise that I'm doing that does not make sense on the face of it. (This is not homework.)
How about a source-code obfuscator? They generally abbreviate names, etc - and certainly remove white space.
For example, here, with demo here (although you'd probably want to disable the string encoding if possible). Note that this isn't a direct recommendation: this is just the first hit I got for C# code obfuscator.
Is that necessary? It was my understanding that the compiled .Net assembly would be sent across the wire, not the C# (or whatever language) source code.
Here are two "Lessons Learned" posts from other 10k entrants:
Thoughts on the MIX 10K challenge
MIX09 10K Smart Coding Challenge