netumlvisual-studio-2008
Is there any tool\Software that make automatically UML diagrams from an existing visual studio 2008 project (C#).
(Tools work with Visual Studio 2010 also appreciated.)
*UML Diagrams may be all types eg, object, class, domain, collaboration, componant, state, deployment etc and test cases etc
I currently used .net framework 3.5.
I have Visual studio 2008 professional.
Thanks in advance.
Is what I used. It is easily installed from the repository:
Name: ObjectAid UML Explorer
Location: http://www.objectaid.com/update/current
And produces quite nice UML diagrams:
The ObjectAid UML Explorer is different from other UML tools. It uses the UML notation to show a graphical representation of existing code that is as accurate and up-to-date as your text editor, while being very easy to use. Several unique features make this possible:
- Your source code and libraries are the model that is displayed, they are not reverse engineered into a different format.
- If you update your code in Eclipse, your diagram is updated as well; there is no need to reverse engineer source code.
- Refactoring updates your diagram as well as your source code. When you rename a field or move a class, your diagram simply reflects the changes without going out of sync.
- All diagrams in your Eclipse workspace are updated with refactoring changes as appropriate. If necessary, they are checked out of your version control system.
- Diagrams are fully integrated into the Eclipse IDE. You can drag Java classes from any other view onto the diagram, and diagram-related information is shown in other views wherever applicable.
If you are using Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 (note: not 2008) I believe you have the option to reverse engineer the .Net code into UML in Visio, Note, this doesn't apply to Visual Studio Team Suite 2008!
To reverse engineer .Net code into UML with Team Suite 2005 you should be able to click on the following menu items: Projects -> Visio UML -> Reverse Engineer.
For Team Suite 2008 (just as an FYI, since you are using VS 2005), MSDN has this interesting link which has probably come from this MSDN Thread on the topic for Visio & VS 2008 which also lists some alternative UML modelling tools.
Also there's a list of free UML tools on this blog entry here they've listed the following:
The agilefactor DotNet2UML utility reads .NET assembly metadata using .NET reflection features and creates an XML representation of the resulting UML called XMI. This XMI can then be imported into most UML tools.
uml2svg is an XSLT-based tool for converting XMI-compliant UML Diagrams into SVG.
Best Answer
In Visual Studio, you can create a Class Diagram model, which gets you started in the direction of a UML diagram.
If gives you the Properties, Behaviors, and Inheritance and Composition chains between types.
Here's an article about how to create them.