Quick Diagram Tool for C#

This project is archived.

Project Status Update

This was an experimental project to prototype a code visualization tool for C# that is integrated with Visual Studio and enables you to quickly add source symbols to a diagram to explore their structure and relationships, similar to the CodeMap feature in Visual Studio Enterprise Edition but with a more lightweight approach.

The enhanced version of this tool is now called Codartis Diagram Tool and is available as a commercial product at https://codartis.com .

The following is the old Readme.md content

Code visualization tool for C# to quickly explore, navigate and document source code structure and relationships. Integrates into Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019. Similar to the Code Map feature of Visual Studio Enterprise Edition but more lightweight ... and free.

Explore code visually

• Add types or entire hierarchies from source code to diagram to visualize their relationships.
• Use the diagram to discover related types.

Navigate quickly

• Jump from the diagram to relevant source code segments.

Document with diagrams

• Copy/paste diagrams into documentation.

Getting Started

• Use the context menu in the source code editor to add types or entire hierarchies to the diagram.

• Use existing diagram nodes to discover their related entities. Dots on the sides of the diagram rectangles indicate that related entities exist.

• Double-click on diagram nodes to jump to their declaration in the source code.
• Save diagrams as image or copy/paste them directly into documentation.

See the Help for details.

Thanks to

• Roslyn for the best parser API.
• QuickGraph for the great graph library.
• Graph# (sadly, Codeplex link is dead) for inspiration about WPF diagram canvas implementation and graph layout algorithms.
• LearnVSXNow for VSIX resources.
• Extensibility Tools for helping a lot in VSIX authoring.

License

GPL-2.0