Creating an advanced TextBlock graphic object

Posted by Robert Dupuy on January 26th, 2009

ILOG Diagram for .NET comes with several ways of displaying text. To display text in a box with word wrapping, any graphic object can be used, as the GraphicObject class supports this feature. There are also two other graphic objects (Text and…

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Extending Ajax Gantt default behaviors : deleting constraints

Posted by Patrick Ruzand on December 8th, 2008

ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5 provides an Ajax-enabled ASP.NET Gantt component by means of several ExtenderControl’s classes. These extenders add client-side behaviors (or in other words enable direct interactions within the browser) like modifying the start and end time of…

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A Silverlight GUI for Google Analytics

Posted by Eric Durocher on November 28th, 2008

Continuing our series of posts on Silverlight experiments, here is a sample that you can use to view real-life data if you use Google Analytics to monitor your web site traffic.

The application first asks you to login using your Google…

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Silverlight experimentations from the .NET Visu Lab (Part 4)

Posted by Eric Durocher on October 9th, 2008

Here is yet another Silverlight experiment: an Organization Chart sample, similar to the ILOG Elixir Organization Chart component.

This new sample uses the same Diagram control as the one used in this post, but it uses a tree layout algorithm instead…

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Silverlight experimentations from the .NET Visu Lab (Part 3)

Posted by Emmanuel Tissandier on October 8th, 2008

Here is another post about Silverlight experimentations in the .NET Visu Lab. This time, the Silverlight application tries to mimic a previous very nice Flex example posted on the ILOG Elixir blog: The CIA World FactBook demo.

This example uses data from the…

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Silverlight experiments from our .NET Visu Lab (Part 2)

Posted by Emmanuel Tissandier on October 6th, 2008

In a previous post I showed a first Silverlight experimentation displaying a project plan in a Silverlight Gantt Chart control. Here is a second experimentation on the same topic. This small example also displays a project plan but this time the…

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Silverlight experiments from our .NET Visu Lab (Part 1)

Posted by Emmanuel Tissandier on October 1st, 2008

Here is the first post in a series about the Silverlight experiments we are doing in our .NET Visu Lab.   We are currently looking at how well the displays in our existing .NET products — see ILOG Gantt for .NET and…

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Selected User Meeting Presentations: A (French) Film Festival

Posted by Emmanuel Tissandier on August 25th, 2008

Ed Kiraly has posted in the JViews blog a series of videos recorded during a user group meeting in Paris. The recorded sessions (in French) are from our CEO, from the Visualization product team and from Microsoft and Adobe. You will find here a…

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Adding Icons to a Link

Posted by Eric Durocher on August 13th, 2008

The Link object in ILOG Diagrammer for .NET lets you easily add text items at any position on the link path (using the TextItems property), but there is no out-of-the box functionality to add other graphic decorations like icons. Here is a…

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Diagrammer .NET Tips and Tricks Explained Through the “UML Class Diagram” Sample - Part 3

Posted by Eric Durocher on August 6th, 2008

Creating a Scrollable List

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we explained some common techniques for creating complex ILOG Diagrammer for .NET user symbols, and we used a UMLType symbol as an example.

This post will focus on the description…

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