DGML with Style

In this video, I go through conditional styling in more depth to show you how to spruce up your DGML diagrams.

I also explain how to use the Legend box, talk about its limitations, and show how to edit styles manually in the DGML and get XSD IntelliSense, which will help you remember the various properties that are supported in conditional styles.

The thing that’s really interesting about conditional styles is how they make some hidden data in your graph really pop out. If you combine careful use of color, font, font size, outline, icons, and grouping, not to mention link styles and labels, you can convey a lot of information in one powerful picture.

In this video, you will learn about the Legend box, the DGML representation for Styles, and see how the GroupLabel and ValueLabel properties affect the Legend box. You will learn more about what you can do with Conditional Expressions and the importance of order when creating new styles. For more information on conditional styles, see the full BNF syntax.

Version: Visual Studio 2010.