It is a pleasure to announce that the latest releases of ILOG Diagrammer for .NET and ILOG Gantt for .NET for Visual Studio 2008 are now available.

ILOG Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 and ILOG Gantt for .NET 3.5 both support Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. The choice of the version of Visual Studio in done during the installation of the products.

In addition to supporting Visual Studio 2008, the two products have been improved.  Here are the main new features of the two releases: 

What’s new in ILOG Diagrammer 1.5 

Creating diagrams in Windows Presentation Foundation

Diagrammer for .NET 1.5 provides a new library for building diagrams in WPF. Now developers can take advantage of the new Visual Studio 2008 WPF design surface to create diagrams made of nodes and links. Diagrammer for .NET simplifies this development by enabling the use of the new variety of WPF data sources for your graph data. These include the XmlDataProvider and ObjectDataProvider, as well as more traditional data sources such as DataSet, Array, and Collection objects. WPF controls in Diagrammer for .NET provide visual designers with many advanced styling and layout capabilities. The graph created from the data source can be automatically arranged by a large variety of graph layout algorithms that you can specify and tune, both in XAML or by code. Nodes and links can be customized in many different ways, the styling and templating features of WPF enable the creation of very aesthetic user interfaces. Here is an example of a  WPF Organization Chart:

New SubDiagram object

Diagrammer for .NET provides a new graphic object for creating sub-graphs named SubDiagram. This new object offers in-place expand and collapse, the ability to scroll the graph through scrollbars, and a customizable title and icons. Here is an example:

Improved Ajax support

The support of Ajax in Diagrammer for .NET as been improved. New Ajax based interactions have been added, such as the ability to resize the nodes of a diagram and to specify and change the connection points of the links.

What’s new in Gantt for .NET 3.5

Gantt for .NET 3.5 also comes with a set of new features. The main improvement is the support of ASP.NET Ajax.

ILOG Gantt for .NET version 3.5 introduces three new Web controls that extend the various ILOG Gantt. for NET ASP.NET Web components to add Ajax functionalities.The following Ajax interactions are supported:

• In the Gantt Chart control : the editing of activities (start time and end time modification), constraint creation, row selection, timescale panning and zooming, active scroll bars.
• In the Schedule Chart control: activity edition (start time and end time modification), copy activity to a new resource, move an activity to a new resource, row selection, timescale panning and zooming, active scroll bars.
• In the Reservation Chart: activity edition (start time and end time modification), row selection, timescale panning and zooming, active scroll bars.

Improvements of the Time Scale

The Time scale control is now able to display labels that are centered on the ticks, not only between the ticks. This makes it possible to have this kind of display:

 

Improvements of the Grid component

The grid displayed by a GanttSheet can now be drawn on a “per row” basis, instead of being drawn for the whole GanttSheet. This makes it possible to display the calendar of a resource in a ScheduleSheet, to get this kind of display:

 

More examples to learn product features easily

The table below shows the new samples that were added to Gantt for .NET as well as those that were modified:

• BenchMark: This new sample shows the performance of the product by benchmarking a few common tasks.
• Overview: This new sample gives an overview of the product by demonstrating the main controls and features.
• AbsenceCalendar: This new sample shows how to display the availability of resources by drawing a WorkingTimesGrid in the resource row.
• CustomTimeLine: This new sample shows how to create a non-linear time line based on a WorkCalendar.
• Legend: This new sample shows how to create a control that displays the different styles used in a Gantt sheet as a legend.
• TimeGrid: This new samples shows how to use the different TimeGrid components.
• TimeScale:The sample has been modified to show the different possible representation that can be achieved using the new features of the TimeScale.

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