UML diagram and VS2010 IDE

Question

Is there any way by which we can generate UML diagrams automatically for my VS2010 project? Is there any free tool for it? Manually generating UML diagrams is a very time consuming process.... Can anybody help me with an idea as to how I can easily generate UML diagrams for my .net project.

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate offers several types of UML diagrams . I think the reverse engineering of the code into diagrams is not part of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM but can be downloaded as separate feature pack 2 (offers generation of UML class diagram from code).

If you don't have VS 2010 Ultimate you should use some other Case tool (most probably commercial because of quality). Very popular is Enterprise Architect .

Answer 2

I'm not sure how much automation you're looking for, but you can generate sequence diagrams relatively quickly in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM, and you can manually create UML class diagrams from C# code by dragging elements, if you have the feature pack:

• How to: Explore Code with Sequence Diagrams
• How to: Create UML Class Diagrams from Code