Does anyone know of a "Forest control" for .Net? A usercontrol that can display X nodes where each node may have a connection to another node? Almost like a class connection view.

Question

I have a structure I need to visualize. It contains of a set of nodes, where each node has a connection to one of the other nodes. A treeview can not show this as the connection does not follow a treeview structure.

Does anyone know of a control that might be able to show this? The best way to illustrate the node connections is like when you show a class diagram in .Net. Each class comes up with lines to what other classes they are connected to.

I just need a very simple way to show this. Simple boxes with or without info that connects to other boxes that again connects to other boxes.

Simply illustrated here:

       [D]--->[E]
        ^      |
        |      |
        |      v
[A]<---[B]--->[C]

Solution using GLEE: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/f1303e46-965f-401a-87c3-34e1331d32c5/default.aspx

Add a GViewer to your usercontrol. Then to reproduce my ABCDE example over, only this is needed:

Graph g = new Graph("graph");
g.AddEdge("B","A");
g.AddEdge("B", "C");
g.AddEdge("B", "D");
g.AddEdge("D", "E");
g.AddEdge("E", "C");

myGViewer.Graph = g;

Answer 1

This "forest" sounds just like a Directed Graph (digraph). Google it. First results page comes up with:

1. QuickGraph
2. Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout