Below you can read the most important features that differ FlowChart.NET Professional edition from FlowChart.NET Standard:

User interaction

• Multilevel Undo/Redo support;

Graph analysis & automatic graph layout algorithms

• Layered graph layout;
• Spring-Embedder graph layout;
• Grid layout;
• Path finding in graphs;

A suite of auxiliary controls

• Overview control;
• Node shapes toolbar;
• Ruler control;

Below you can see a list of the most important FlowChart.NET characteristics separated in groups:

The FlowChart.NET component

• Redistribution is royalty free;
• Assembly is strong-named;
• Is digitally signed;
• Can be purchased with source code;
• Is written in C#;

User interaction

• Several user interaction modes;
• Scrolling and zooming;
• Panning;
• Copy and paste to/from Windows clipboard;
• Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse;
• Alignment to grid;
• Multiple selection;
• Tool-tips;
• Docking points can be defined for nodes;
• Undo / redo support;

Programming

• Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections;
• Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior;
• Numerous utility methods;
• Path finding and cycle detection;
• Rich event set;

Store and retrieve diagrams into/from

• Files on disk;
• .NET streams;
• ASCII strings;
• XML documents;

Output

• To display via Windows Forms;
• Printing;
• Print preview;
• To browser via the utility WebChart class;
• Export image files;

Diagram elements

• More than 87 predefined node shapes;
• Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns;
• Control hosts allow using .NET controls as diagram nodes;
• Arrows can comprise multiple segments;
• Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves;

Automatic layout

• Spring-Embedder graph layout;
• Directional tree layout;
• Radial tree layout;
• Layered graph layout;
• Grid layout (FlowChart.NET Pro only);
• Automatic arrow routing;

Appearance

• Nodes can display images and text ;
• Various text alignment styles;
• Text can be laid-out in polygonal areas;
• Styled HTML-like text formatting;
• Customizable fonts and colors;
• Ability to define custom node shapes;
• Custom painting of nodes;
• Shadows;
• User-assigned mouse cursors;
• Z order;
• Rich choice of pen and brush styles;
• Transparent nodes;
• Invisible nodes;

Behavior

• Lock diagram elements;
• Read-only mode supported;
• Tables can be scrolled;
• Expand / collapse object hierarchies;
• In-place text editing;
• Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes;

Linking via arrows

• Nodes to nodes;
• Tables to tables;
• Nodes to tables;
• Unconnected arrows;

Hierarchical grouping

• Attaching objects (nodes/tables) to other objects;
• Attaching objects to arrow control points;
• Attaching objects to arrow segments;

Auxiliary controls (FlowChart.NET Pro only)

• Overview control;
• Ruler control;
• Shapes toolbar;