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Simon Gill
Simon Gill

Reputation: 1106

How do I export a DBML diagram from Visual Studio into an image?

I have a very pretty DBML diagram that I would like to preserve in our Design Documents. How do I get an image showing all of the tables in one go?

I found How to export Visual Studio 2010 UML Modeling Diagrams but the slightly elegant solution of copying all the items and pasting them into an image editor doesn't work in this case.

Am I stuck with Print Screen and manually stitching the images together?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 8179

Answers (4)

J.C. Gras
J.C. Gras

Reputation: 5442

Unfortunately Visual Studio does not allow save as image a dbml diagram. In my case I printed (Ctr + P) and saved as a PDF document. Then I used a site like this, which allows convert PDF to Image.

Upvotes: 0

Hesam
Hesam

Reputation: 11

first Install adobe acrobat then inside visual studio click on print preview and then click print you should print as a pdf file .

Upvotes: 1

p.campbell
p.campbell

Reputation: 100587

You could print to the Microsoft Document Image Writer. That'll create a TIFF for you.

For those unaware, it's a virtual printer included in Microsoft Office Professional allowing documents to be saved in TIFF.

Upvotes: 12

p.campbell
p.campbell

Reputation: 100587

Have you considered printing the .dbml to a PDF document?

That might alleviate some concerns around stitching your own print-screens together yourself. If you specify the page size as 'big as you can' in the print dialog, you could avoid the multi-page problems.

This of course wouldn't generate an image, but you could then use/view this document to create a proper digital image as you see fit.

Upvotes: 0

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