The Northwoods GoDiagram is a tool that makes it very easy and effortless to create and build applications which are permitting the user to view and control the chart and the nodes that are connected by the hyperlinks. The GoDiagram includes a lot of within not which are in a Kind and are complete samples of the software to get the project of the user launched faster. The GoDiagram intends to be very extensible to the custom requirement of the user and it is constructed from the bottom up of the C#. GoDiagram allows the users diagrams and elements for the .NET Windows forms and the web forms of the ASP.NET. Is basically designed and used to be benefited from many new features that the Microsoft .NET as well as das the ASP.NET supplies. There is no other need and requirement to compromise and attempt the use of the ActiveX control which is old and since it has been implemented by the GoDiagram, it is completely in managed code. The GoDiagram can be exactly what the user wants to bring his program in an easy flexible and quick way. It supports the process of moving, copying, deleting, resizing the objects in order to build the GoDiagram. The shapes like the rectangle, ellipses, strokes as well as the figures and the GoShape can have s particular pen for outlining the shapes and even a brush for the painting the inner portion of the shapes adding to the Gradient fills being supported in this case. The user can view the GoDiagram in many different kinds of browsers as they are consisting of images and some JavaScript. They are easily supporting the AJAX styles of the image being reloaded and the data without doing the postbacks of the ASP.NET and even without the presence of the partial postbacks of the Microsoft AJAX. The GoDiagram does not run on the machine of the browser and with each click on the diagram, the results can go in a round trip to the update of the server of the tag which also represents the diagram itself. One of the great advantages of this GoDiagram is that it is a part of the greater and larger environment that supports the graphics as well as the other instruments and makes it possible to add the instruments to a more complicated diagram. For the implementation of the models that support the objects, GoDiagram is being used.
The diagram has the following features:
GoDiagram View: this feature view is basically a control which displays the documents of the GoDiagram. It can support the mouse-based objects and their manipulation. It includes selecting, resizing, copying, moving, as well as using drag and drop processes. The GoDiagram can organize input behaviors in the tools that the user can easily modify. Adding to the process of override and even add or remove from the section of the view.
GoDiagram Document: This document implements a model that supports the manipulation of the objects. The process of adding an object in the model that is supposed to manipulation makes it very visible in the documents' view. The user can organize layers in the object and the GoDiagram provides support for the process of composing and manipulating the graphs. In this case, the nods that have ports are very much connected by links.
Flexibility as well as Extensibility: The library of the GoDiagram is very flexible and extensible. There are predefined classes of Nodes that make it easy to construct and build many kinds of graphs. The user can easily customize many objects for the application-specific purpose by just setting properties or even subclassing. The user can completely add a new object that is graphical to the existing framework.
AutoLayout: in order to provide greater customizability, and ease of use the Northwoods offer how many separate options, another library, and the Northwoods.Go.Layout. The option that extends the GoDiagram by just providing a very sophisticated automatic layout which is algorithms for the nodes in the graphs. The component of the Auto Layout is sold and later it is documented separately.
