c# Tree/MindMap GUI

Question

i am trying to research some gui technology for c# where i can display a tree view (opposed to the standard one provided.)

Essentially i want to have the gui draw a tree of data (as if you were going to draw a binary tree on a piece of paper or something) Then making each of the nodes clickable.

If this isnt available does anyone know of something where i could have a mindmap type GUI which shows links between elements and those are clickable?

I can guess people will say make one yourself, in which case i give up already ;) thats too advanced for me and as i am on a work placement i dont think i would be granted the time to make it as there are more pressing issues to get working first, like actually making the programme work!

Thank you

Answer 1

You can take a look at the controls in Kevin's WPF Bag-o-Tricks which has a WPF mind map style layout. Here is a nice example. If you want to use more professional components take a look at the product from Nevron Software, they have some great controls. There is also an opensource WPF graphing library - graphsharp (which I have no experience with, but I found a nice article by Sacha Barber). Since it's used in nDepend it must be pretty mature.

I hope you get some inspiration from those links :)