Program which can produce class diagrams directly from code

Question

I have a somewhat large C# project which I am starting to lose overview of. I was wondering if there was some software out there which could graphically represent my classes, which calls what, and so forth.

I have tried googling around a little, but only found old software and Visual Studio extensions which did not enable for a direct import to output function.

Suggestions welcome :-)

Regards, John

You may have seen this, as I just found it by Googling, but it claims to do something along the lines of what you need : http://nclass.sourceforge.net/downloads.html — James Gaunt, Apr 09 '13 at 13:15
You dont need any special extension...Check this.. [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1779842/auto-generate-class-diagrams-from-solution) — user1181942, Apr 09 '13 at 13:18

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '13 at 13:28

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You could use the built-in "class diagram" file type of Visual Studio.

Add a new class diagram to your project :

Add -> New Item -> Class diagram

Then drag and drop your classes to the diagram files:

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answered Apr 09 '13 at 13:28

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Doesn't work in VS 2015 for dnx (xproj) projects - "Class diagrams are not supported by this project type" :( – Dmitry Jan 19 '16 at 11:44
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Havnt known about this one. Dude, I can even do changes inside the class diagram. How cool is that :D. Upvoted! Thanks. – C4d Jun 06 '16 at 10:19

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 05 '18 at 19:39

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Doxygen will generate beautiful hypertext diagrams from source code even for large projects. It uses graphviz library to draw the diagrams and provides an html help as an output. It works well for C-like languages.

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answered Apr 09 '13 at 13:22

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the link `Tools for generating UML class diagram from C# source or dll` in your post is broken. – Felix Castor Jun 08 '15 at 16:48
the link provided is broken. please update it else remove it. So that it will not guide others with broken link. – Jeya Suriya Muthumari Mar 11 '16 at 06:48

Program which can produce class diagrams directly from code

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