drawing of chemical structures -Any plugin in C# for these?

Question

I want to represent the chemical structure drawing in my windows application. I found some softwares are available in the market like "BKChem","Metlab","ChemDraw","SMILE (Simplified molecular input line entry specification)","BioChemDraw". but unfortunately i am unable to found any of above's plug in/API's with dot net please let me know. this is very high priority for me for now.

Answer 1

First of all, I'm not at all a .net expert

In the field of chemical structure conversion and drawing, OpenBabel is really the broadest. Unfortunately for you, I only used it from command line, never through API.

BUT, there is a C# API for OpenBabel documented here. And it seams that it can output SVG which is an open drawing standard.

Answer 2

We have written a C# tool for this: http://chem4word.codeplex.com/ It has been developed over several years and works inside .NET and MS-WORD.