Sep 26 2009

Standard Dependency Graphs

by clovett | 6 Comments

Vice President of the Developer Division, Somasegar, posted a blog about architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 including some interesting dependency graph screen shots.

So to follow up on that I have posted a new Video (WMV or MP4)on Beta 2 bits that demos how this dependency graph feature works in more detail, and the video is a lovely big HD resolution (1280 x 720) so you can really see what's going on.

When I show this to customers the reaction I get is excitement followed by "finally, I can see the big picture" of my code.  Customers often find big things to improve in their code in the first 5 minutes of browsing with this tool.

Comments

8/31/2009 4:36:33 AM
JP United States
JP
Wow this looks very cool.

Question: Will this work for C/C++ projects?
8/31/2009 11:47:16 AM
Chris Lovett
Chris Lovett
Unfortunately VS 2010 does not support generating standard graphs from C++ code. It only works on managed projects (C# and VB) and directly from any managed assembly.
9/10/2009 1:07:37 PM
Radu Germany
Radu
Good start!
I wish you long career in blogging an await your next articles.

So, quoting JP: Will this work for already existing C++ project?

Good luck!
9/15/2009 7:33:46 PM
Alex
Alex
I still use an old version of Visual Studio, but this seems like a very nice feature to have and a good reason to move to Visual Studio 2010.
1/26/2010 7:01:21 AM
Lisa Lunndra United States
Lisa Lunndra
I am a little disappointed to find out VS 2010 will not work C++. However, I guess now is as good a time as ever to jump in and get my feet wet with VS 2010.
1/26/2010 6:59:48 PM
Chris Lovett
Chris Lovett
Quoting Cameron Skinner, We are working on getting a native plugin for this functionality sometime after we ship, but no date as of yet. We are working on it as we speak however!

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