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This seems like something which must have been answered before, but I can t find anything appropriate in the question archives. Basically, I m looking for a little Domain Specific Language to create flowcharts. I m terrible at graphic design and making things look nice, and I d really like a langauge where I could write something in code and it would produce a pretty flowchart. I ve come across GraphViz, but it seems more suited to creating things like Finite State Machine diagrams, rather than process flowcharts. It also doesn t have the simple DSL-style front-end that would allow me to easily work it.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have a look at PlantUml - in particular their Activity State diagrams.

As an example (from their site) produces the image below:

@startuml

start

if (graphviz installed?) then (yes)
  :process all
diagrams;
else (no)
  :process only
  __sequence__ and __activity__ diagrams;
endif

stop

@enduml

enter image description here

Answer 2

MindFusion offers components for diagramming that you can access programmatically.

They offer components for WPF and WinForms:

WPFDiagram - WPF
FlowChart.NET - WinForms

In the past I ve used their WPF component on a DSL editor project. Based on Toolbox drag-and-drops in the DSL editor, WPFDiagram was called to create shapes on the Drawing Surface.

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