visual studio 2010: dependency graph

Question

I have VS 2010 professional edition. What can I do to use "Dependency Graph". I do not have "architectural" edition. Is there a FREE plugin that I could use. If not, are there any FREE 3rd party tools that could help me do the same thing.

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Not a pretty graph, but see my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/43374622/64334 — Ronnie Overby, Apr 12 '17 at 16:27

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 27 '21 at 18:54

I needed something similar, but didn't want to pay for (or install) a tool to do it. I created a quick PowerShell script that goes through the project references and spits them out in a yuml.me friendly-format instead:

Function Get-ProjectReferences ($rootFolder)
{
    $projectFiles = Get-ChildItem $rootFolder -Filter *.csproj -Recurse
    $ns = @{ defaultNamespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" }

    $projectFiles | ForEach-Object {
        $projectFile = $_ | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
        $projectName = $_ | Select-Object -ExpandProperty BaseName
        $projectXml = [xml](Get-Content $projectFile)
        
        $projectReferences = $projectXml | Select-Xml '//defaultNamespace:ProjectReference/defaultNamespace:Name' -Namespace $ns | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Node | Select-Object -ExpandProperty "#text"
        
        $projectReferences | ForEach-Object {
            "[" + $projectName + "] -> [" + $_ + "]"
        }
    }
}

Get-ProjectReferences "C:\Users\DanTup\Documents\MyProject" | Out-File "C:\Users\DanTup\Documents\MyProject\References.txt"

_{(source: yuml.me)}

major kudo's for this approach – Mark van Straten Jan 11 '13 at 10:26 — Mark van Straten, Jan 11 '13 at 10:26

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '12 at 17:31

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dependency-analyser can help you.

http://code.google.com/p/dependency-analyser/

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answered May 06 '12 at 17:31

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 03 '10 at 01:37

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http://dependencyvisualizer.codeplex.com/ might help. You didn't say if you need something that goes beyond project-level dependencies.

answered Oct 03 '10 at 01:37

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The downloadable version does not support VS2010. You will need to compile from source if you want to analyse VS2010 + – Darbio Aug 16 '12 at 02:46

Wernight · Answer 4 · 2011-12-05T14:13:16.657

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You have also the VS Solution Dependency Viewer which supports VS2010 and is free for freeware/evaluation projects. You can download it directly from GForge: VS Solution Dependency Viewer project page.

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answered Nov 30 '11 at 16:44

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 27 '11 at 12:13

The NDepend tool does both dependency graph and dependency matrix (objectively 100x faster than VS2010 graph actually) but it is not free.

However you can download and use free trial for a while. And if you are working on an OSS project, contact us and we'll be happy to sponsor your OSS project with a free license (I am part of the tool team):

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