Drawing SVG in .NET/C#?

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liori picture liori · Oct 6, 2009 · Viewed 95.2k times · Source

I'd like to generate an SVG file using C#. I already have code to draw them in PNG and EMF formats (using framework's standard class System.Drawing.Imaging.Metafile and ZedGraph). What could you recommend to do to adapt that code to SVG? Preferably I'd like to find some library (free or not) that would mimic System.Drawing.Graphics interface.

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Autodidact picture Autodidact · Oct 6, 2009

Check out the SVG framework in C# and an SVG-GDI+ bridge project.

From the above web page...

The SvgGdi bridge is a set of classes that use SvgNet to translate between SVG and GDI+. What this means is that any code that uses GDI+ to draw graphics can easily output SVG as well, simply by plugging in the SvgGraphics object. This object is exactly the same as a regular .NET Graphics object, but creates an SVG tree. Even things like hatched fills and line anchors are implemented.

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