Generate Sequence Diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

I was checking out the new ‘Generate Sequence Diagram’ feature in Visual Studio 2010 and it’s pretty cool!

So if you have a piece of code in a method as shown below and want to generate a sequence diagram for it, just right click the method > ‘Generate Sequence Diagram’

You can choose various options like the Call Depth and Call scope as shown below:

On hitting the OK button, VIsual Studio 2010 analyzes the code and builds a sequence diagram based on its analysis results as shown below:

Impressive, I say!!

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...: Which version VS2010 can build Sequence Diagram? I'm using VS2010 professional, and there is no such menu item.; March 31, 2010 at 4:19 AM
Suprotim Agarwal said...: As mentioned in the post title, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate has this feature; March 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Do you know if the sequence diagrams stay in sync with the underlying objects, like the class diagrams do?; April 2, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Suprotim Agarwal said...: Good question. I need to try that and get back to you!; April 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM
Anonymous said...: How to you resize the thing? I could not do so. such as deferred call box. tried to resize but i have no idea how to do it.; March 4, 2012 at 10:58 PM