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Verve Innovation
Verve Innovation

Reputation: 2086

Creating UML Class Diagrams programmatically

I want to be able to create UML class diagrams programmatically, and I saw VS Ultimate Edition has UML Class diagram support which is XML internally.My question is can I do this runtime and interactively? Meaning I have my .exe running, and I build the XML programmatically, and show the resulting diagram in a diagram component which I have placed on a Form ? Could I write code to handle dragging and resizing class shapes, creating associations and other actions associated with editing a class diagram? Or would I operate on the XML structure, and just keep the reloading the resulting diagram after each edit?

very importantly how do I show the resulted Class Diagram ....

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1014

Answers (1)

Bala
Bala

Reputation: 4547

Two steps:

Step 1: use DOT (graph description language) to create graph representation of class relations.

DOT is a plain text graph description language. It is a simple way of describing graphs that both humans and computer programs can use.

Step 2: Use DOT reader libraries to render as picture.

There are lot of libraries are available to render DOT file.

Upvotes: 1

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