Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 4 – Understand Your Code With Dependency Graphs
Have you ever had to take over a project from a developer who has left the company or did work as an outside contractor and now you need to enhance / add to that code?
As you then probably know, it takes a bit of code surfing to get to know the code and how everything fits together. It is also not immediately clear which dependencies are present in your code. Luckily Microsoft has built a tool that can help.
With Visual Studio Ultimate, you can create Dependency Graphs from your code to help you visualise how that code is organised and it also helps you understand the dependencies more easily. (Compare Visual Studio editions)
It is an excellent tool for working with unfamiliar code. Dependency Graphs give you an overview of all the code in your solution. With this post I will give you an overview of what you can do with Dependency Graphs.
For a more in-depth article, see Visualize Code Dependencies on Dependency Graphs. (more…)