Each member of the yFiles product family includes comprehensive documentation that bundles together three essential resources: the Developer’s Guide, the API documentation, and the Knowledge Base. A centralized search lets you immediately find the answer to your questions.
The documentation is part of the yFiles product package, and there’s also an online version available.
The Developer’s Guide describes the library’s concepts and explains how the classes and interfaces provide functionality.
You’ll also learn about the graph layout algorithms and their
options and settings.
The detailed API documentation for the classes and interfaces of the diagramming library provides clear help for working with yFiles. It is available as HTML pages, and can also be directly integrated into many IDEs.
The yWorks Knowledge Base contains short, product-specific technical articles written by our core engineers answering frequently asked questions.
For more information about yFiles on the web platform, check out our platform specific details.
yFiles for HTML is a powerful JavaScript/HTML library for adding customizable diagramming to any web application.
Export your diagrams to Microsoft Visio's VSDX format for seamless collaboration and sharing.
Open documentationUse ready-to-go yFiles React components to quickly integrate rich diagramming into your React applications.
For more information about yFiles on the Java platform, check out our variant specific details.
yFiles for JavaFX introduces the robust power and simplicity of yFiles diagramming to your advanced JavaFX™ applications.
Open documentationA modern Java Swing library with built-in UI controls and advanced layout algorithms for interactive diagramming for Java 8.
Open documentationA classic Java Swing library for analyzing, visualizing, and automatically arranging diagrams and graphs.
Open documentationFurther documentation for yFiles for Java (Swing) 2.x and its extensions is available here.
For more information about yFiles on the .NET platform, check out our variant specific details.
yFiles.NET (WinForms) is an extensive Windows Forms programming library for the Microsoft .NET environment.
Open documentationyFiles WPF is an extensive .NET programming library for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications.
Open documentationSoftware changes over time, and so does yFiles. We develop the diagramming SDK for new technologies as these become established. And although we support outdated yFiles versions for a very long time, we have to say goodbye at some point.
Outdated technologiesCheck out our support hub to find video tutorials, source code demos and more.
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