microsoft/automatic-graph-layout

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MSAGL (Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout) is a .NET library for automatically computing graph layouts and rendering them. It ships a core layout engine plus WPF and Windows Forms viewer controls with pan/zoom, navigation, and search features.

Use cases

• automatically lay out nodes and edges of a graph in a .NET app
• embed an interactive graph viewer with pan and zoom in WPF or WinForms
• visualize dependency or network graphs in C#
• compute graph layout only and render it with another tool
• add tooltips, highlighting, and search to graph visualizations

When to choose

• you need automatic graph layout in a .NET application
• you want a ready-made interactive graph viewer control for WPF or Windows Forms
• you only need the layout computation and will handle rendering yourself

When to avoid

• you need web-based or JavaScript graph rendering
• your project is not on the .NET platform
• you need force-directed layouts with highly customizable algorithms beyond MSAGL's offerings

Facets

library · maturity stable

data-visualization graphics data-visualization developer-tools graphics windows dotnet cross-platform graph-layout graph-viewer csharp wpf winforms msagl

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