CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studiovisual-studio-2010modeling
user610217
user610217

Reputation:

Is there a Visual Studio Tool to show the assembly's object model?

I don't want to deal with EF, but I'd like a visual, automatically updated or updateable representation of my assembly's object model, denoting relationships with other classes in the model, like the EF model but not related to persistence. It seems like this should exist, but the only things I can find are highly manual or assuming you want to persist all your objects. I definitely do not want to pay for something.

Is there something like that that I am missing?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1287

Answers (3)

Olav Nybø
Olav Nybø

Reputation: 11568

I am pretty sure that the "View Class Diagram" option is available in all Visual Studio 2010 edtions. Here is another thread about it: Visual Studio 2010 Professional: class diagram tool

Just check if you have it on your context menu.

Not that you will have to explicitly tell the tool to show associations such as aggregated classes, it will only show inheritance by default.

Upvotes: 2

Lex Li
Lex Li

Reputation: 63298

There are less expensive solutions from modeling vendors, such as ModelMaker,

http://www.modelmakertools.com/modelmaker/screenshots.html

Upvotes: 0

danludwig
danludwig

Reputation: 47375

The "Class Diagram" is what you are looking for. If this is only available in VS Ultimate, then you might be out of luck. It kind of makes sense though, because the ultimate version is supposed to have all of the "planning" tools (architecture explorer, and other UML features).

Upvotes: 1

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