A Spider type control tree thingy for WPF
home:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/SpiderControl.aspx
I recently started a new job where I am employed as a WPF developer. When I arrived, the guys there gave me a brief that was to make a cool app, and they really liked the look and feel of the
FamilyShow exemplar by Vertigo. Which I also love, that and
Tangerine by Infragistics are my favourite WPF demos.
What I liked in both where the fluid movements, and the diagramming approach used in the
FamilyShow exemplar particularly. The guys where I just started working asked me how hard it would be to create something like the diagramming component seen in the
FamilyShow exemplar. So without further ado, I contacted my favourite partner in weird WPF briefs, Mr. Fredrik Bornander, who I love working with on these stranger ideas. We seem to manage to do a reasonable job together, at least I think anyway.
This article will describe a tree like diagram component that we have nicknamed the "SpiderControl".
Here is a screenshot just to wet your appetite: