MindFusion diagramming Part 1 - adding simple diagram to the form.

We worked quite a bit with this product and I must say it is a good one.
It can be used to easilly draw diagrams. It has a lot of built-in shapes and a designer to draw new one.
Let's add a digaram on the form.
First of all, download the product from here : http://mindfusion.eu/download-netdiagram.html and install them.
Add the following lines to your web.config:

In page / controls section, add the following:
<add tagPrefix="ndiag" namespace="MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms" assembly="MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms"/>

Then add reference to :
MindFusion.Common
MindFusion.Diagramming
MindFusion.Diagramming.WebForms

Open your page and add the following markup to create a diagram:

<ndiag:DiagramView ID="diagramView" runat="server" Style="left: 0px; width: 800px;
position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 505px" Behavior="DrawControls" BackColor="White" AllowInplaceEdit="true" />

I added few additional properties to decorate and set behaviours. We will discuss them later. I also allowed InplaceEdit, which means that when you double click on a shape, you will be able to edit the text.
Finally, copy the JDiagram.jar into your root directory (you can place it in a directory of your choice, but you will need to set the JarLocation property to point to this file.

Let's see what we did so far:





Pretty nice for 1 minute of work, huh?
There is more ;). This product seems to come from Bulgaria, so there will be no problem with it :).