Install Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 4, restart Visual Studio, right-click on the context in your solution view and you’ll see a new ‘Entity Framework’ option in the context menu. Select ‘View Entity Data Model’ to see a beautiful visual database diagram in Visual Studio. Voilà! Entity Framework 6 Power Tools: Link
Try NClass it’s cool in short , I have tried it myself. Features: Simple User Interface. Free UML class diagram tool specially for C#. From diagram to Code generation. Classic style class diagrams. Visual Studio style class diagrams 😉 NOTE: If you are a student then your school or university can provide you Visual Studio … Read more
You can use whatever program you want as long as it can draw colored shapes. Some people I know use PowerPoint, since you can make nice designs with it. Or in Visio: New->General->Block Diagram. You can alter the design by right click->format->line. (You can make it more beautiful but I didn’t want to spend to … Read more
Doubled shapes can be done by using [peripheries=2] on the node Doubled edges can be done by specifying more than one colour for the edge, separated by a colon. In this case use the same colour twice: [color=”black:black”] (or, to separate them slightly more, do [color=”black:invis:black”]) I got there eventually! Sorry for the “evolutionary” nature … Read more
It might seems so, but the difference is, activity diagrams describe activities and state charts describe states. So those models are orthogonal – you might imagine there is an activity between two states (something that occurs during the transition) and you might say there is a state between two activities. This is rather a simplification, … Read more
You can use django-extensions app for generating model visualisations. setting.py INSTALLED_APPS = ( ‘django.contrib.auth’, ‘django.contrib.contenttypes’, ‘django.contrib.sessions’, ‘django.contrib.sites’, ‘django.contrib.messages’, ‘django.contrib.staticfiles’, ‘…’, ‘django_extensions’, ‘django.contrib.admin’, # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: # ‘django.contrib.admindocs’, ) Give this command in terminal python manage.py graph_models -a -o myapp_models.png This will generate a png file named myapp_models.png. It will … Read more
PlantUML. http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/sequence.html PlantUML is used to draw UML diagram, using a simple and human readable text description. The generated images can then be used without any reference to the GPL/LGPL/ASL/EPL/MIT license. It is not even necessary to stipulate that they have been generated with PlantUML, although this will be appreciate by PlantUML team. In my … Read more
There are some tricks that you can try, listed below. The layouting itself is performed by GraphViz (dot layouting iirc), and GraphViz simply does this sometimes. Graph layouting is a NP-complete problem, so algorithms usually take harsh shortcuts. Typical workarounds that I’ve seen or used include: adding hidden lines a -[hidden]- b extending the length … Read more
Normal rectangle with a dotted rectangle in the top right corner, to represent the template parameter. Something like this: ……. ___________: T : | :…..: | | | ClassName | | | |______________|
For Visual Studio 2017, 2019 and 2022 This feature is still available, but it is NOT installed by default, you have to install it separately. From inside Visual Studio go to Tools -> Get Tools and Features Select the Individual components tab and search for Class Designer Check this Component and Install it After finish … Read more