Graph visualisation in Silverlight

Question

I have a data structure that represents a directed graph and I'm looking for a good Silverlight visualisation to allow me to navigate from node to node, preferably with some nice animation.

Does anyone know of any good UI controls or frameworks for this kind of display? Even a sample from another field (maybe a social network?). My graphs don't have many nodes so performance won't be an issue.

I've seen the Prefuse library for Java (and Flash) which would be ideal. The "Degree of Interest" visualisation is the kind of thing I'm after, but I can't find anything in Silverlight.

Thanks for any tips.

Agminate

Answer 1

There's an open source option that's part of the Silverlight Bag-O-Tricks. Check it out and see a demo here (use the first demo link):

http://www.codeplex.com/BagOTricks

There's also a WPF version:

http://j832.com/bagotricks/

Toleration

Thanks Jared, this doesn't offer quite as much eye candy as the prefuse libraries but it's the best I've seen so far for SL. – Agminate

Answer 2

Try this one http://graphlight.codeplex.com/

Bonita

Answer 3

I made a graph library for Silverlight, that uses Dot as basis. Please check out: http://dot2silverlight.codeplex.com/

I am making some improvements to support more shapes and types of arrows.

daniela

Depression

Answer 4

Must admit I haven't tryed it out yet my self but quickgraph looks promissing

Ichnite

Answer 5

@Rune FS

QuickGraph has no visualisation capabilities, at least not for Silverlight. It just handles the graph data structures and algorithms.

Heedful

Answer 6

QuickGraph does make it easy to construct a graph and output to Directed Graph Markup Language (DGML) which can be viewed in VS 2010. I just checked in changes to the project and I noticed that it has been designed to be built for inclusion into Silverlight. So perhaps you could use it in conjunction with a silverlight DGML viewer

Adamic