Microsoft Visio and Visual Studio

Question

Hi I was wondering if anyone is currently using Microsoft Visio in order to reverse engineer your solution so that a class diagram will result. I use visio with my MySQL database schema etc and its works perfectly. It would save me many hours if this is possible. Thanks greatly in advance Person.

person · Answer

So it doesnt add all the realtionships the method names and parameters etc to this 'icons' in the Visio screen? Thats the main problem I dont care about getting all the classes in thats fine......the time demanding part is the realtionships and content of each. Thanks N Dean G.

Kirtan Patel · Answer

You can reverse engineer an entire solution or a selected project within a solution. The selections you make in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer determine what is reverse engineered to the Visio UML. In the Visual Studio environment reverse engineering is activated from a command on the Project menu. Information from the code model is extracted Visio is launched and reverse-engineered elements of your code appear as icons in the tree view (tree view: Displayed in a window in the UML Navigator a hierarchy in which each UML element or view (diagram) is represented by an icon. The UML template automatically creates a tree view of your model.) of the Visio UML Model Explorer . You can then drag UML class shapes that reflect class definitions in the source code onto a drawing page to visualize the architecture of the new or legacy solution. if my answer helps you then check Do you like this answer check box :)