I have started working on a new C# project in Visual Studio Professional 2022 and wanted to create a sequence diagram and UML class diagram for the entire project.
Is there a way to do that using Visual Studio Professional 2022?
Is there a third-party tool I can use to do that?
You can use my Runtime Flow tool to collect a sequence of method calls from your application.
And there is RFClassGraph add-in for it that creates a class relationship diagram from the sequence:
https://vlasovstudio.com/runtime-flow/documentation/api.html
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I've looked online and haven't found a solution.
There is no "Architecture" tab inside Visual Studio 2015. All I want to do is generate a UML class diagram from existing code.
UML Diagrams are only available in the enterprise edition. Please check your VS edition.
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Greetz Iki
Attempting to learn C# .NET etc self study. I have subscribed to LearnNowOnline and one of the courses has a Lab module that shows the tutor using Class Designer to view a Class Diagram. Does the Express version have the Class Designer feature? Where can I find details about the difference between the free and paid versions?
I am using VS 2013 Express (Desktop) and the directions on "How to add class diagrams..." as documented on MSDN.
1) In Solution Explorer, right-click the project name. Then choose Add New Item or Add, New Item.
2) Under Templates, choose Class Diagram. I don't even see a Templates selection item.
For Visual C++ projects, look under Templates, and then under Utility to find this template.
3)The class diagram opens in Class Designer and appears as a file that has a .cd extension in Solution Explorer in the project hierarchy. Use the Class Designer toolbox to drag shapes and lines to the diagram.
The lab solution has a .cd file and when I click and view this .cd file the window shows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ClassDiagram MajorVersion="1" MinorVersion="1">
<Font Name="Tahoma" Size="8.25" />
<Class Name="ClassesLabCompleted.LogFile" Collapsed="true">
<Position X="0.5" Y="0.5" Width="1.5" />
<TypeIdentifier>
<FileName>LogFile.cs</FileName>
<HashCode>AAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACQAAAgAAABAAAA=</HashCode>
</TypeIdentifier>
</Class>
</ClassDiagram>
No pretty UI like in the tutorial's video. Further, I have no right click context menu selection to "View Class Diagram"
If Visual Studio 2013 Express supports this feature, how do I access it?
This is a Visual Studio Professional or better feature. Express doesn't have the Code Visualization and class Designer features (nor any of the other UML features).
As far as I can tell there is no official feature comparison for Visual Studio that includes the Express editions. But there is a blog post that describes the 2012 features and they have remained almost identical with the upgrade to 2013.
The 2013 feature comparison for the other editions can be found here.
UPDATE
Now that the Visual Studio Community Edition is available, you may be able to use that instead of Express. It depends on whether you fall in the license category for the Community Edition:
Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community?
A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:
An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.
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For the user of professional edition in VS2012, is there a method to generate the UML (CLASS, SEQUENCE) Diagrams from VS2012?
I have already done implenting my solution project in VS2012. Now i want to generate the class diagram for it.Therefore, if anyone knows about it?
If please help me.
Thank you.
As has already been noted, the Professional edition of Visual Studio doesn't allow you to generate sequence diagrams.
An alternative would be to use a proper UML tool, such as Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems. This offers far more modelling capabilities than Visual Studio, and has support for C++, C#, Java and a host of other languages. And yes, it can generate class and sequence diagrams from source and binary code (binary requires the second-cheapest license).
Generating a Sequence Diagram is an Ultimate Feature.
In Visual Studio Ultimate, generate a sequence diagram to help you
visualize and understand how the code implements a particular method.
A sequence diagram describes an interaction between objects as a
series of lifelines and messages. Lifelines represent instances of
objects, and messages represent method calls between those objects.
You can generate sequence diagrams from Visual C# .NET or Visual Basic
.NET code.
Class diagrams are a standard feature of Visual Studio Professional.
Not 100% about professional, but in Ultimate it is under Architecture -> New Diagram
Right click on your function and choose option "Generate Sequence Diagram" VS 2012
I am novice and work with Visual Studio, .Net, C#.
Could you please help me with the following question:
If I already created a solution
How can I create and view its block-schema in Visual Studio?
I mean diagram showing iteraction between mthods and variables etc
When you mean creating UML Class Diagrams from code then look here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff657806.aspx
Also there is set of videos about modeling features of Visual Studio
http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/clinted
But architecture explorer feature is present only in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Also look at Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/ff655021.aspx
When you have no Ultimate version of VS, maybe NClass will be good free alternative for you in this case.
Right click on your project, "View class diagram". This is available only in Ultimate edition.
What you're describing sounds more like a "Sequence Diagram". If you have Visual STudio 2010 Ultimate, you and right-click within any method and select "Generate Sequence Diagram".
But, sequence diagrams don't show all interactions with local variables; just method (and optionally property) invocations.
I have a C# class library that I need to document. Is there a way I can convert the project or class to a Visio Uml.
I am using Visual Studios 2008 Professional.
I think this thread answers your question:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vstsarch/thread/07b39757-eac4-49fa-81d5-8d167c9b9d21/
As mentioned by "Program.X" the above link no longer works.
Short answer: Reverse engineering of code in to Visio UML models works with the combination of Visio Pro 2007 and Visual Studio Team System for Software Architects 2005. It does not work with Visio Pro 2007 and Visual Studio Team System Architecture Edition 2008. However, Visio Pro 2007 does allow you to do reverse engineering of databases.
Why?: The ability to reverse engineer code is now provided by all versions of Visual Studio in the form of the class designer where the code is continuously synchronized with model. Additional modeling functionality will be provided within Visual Studio Team System in the future.
Apparently someone found a workaround for VS2008 but use it at your own risk.
http://www.nullify.net/Article/298.aspx
There is also an MSDN article on the subject:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947873.aspx