Usage diagram (UML)

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Hey guys,

Due to very fast developing during the last 2 years our app’s code base is a big mess! So now that we have time for cleanup we would love to start by visualizing our current mess using something like a “usage diagram” like UML. Do you know if there are any tools that can display our current C# code as UML diagram including usage?

I know that there are some programs or extensions that visualize the dependencies of Assembly Definitions or dependencies of classes when using inheritance.
But our code is a mess and uses almost exclusevly usage (e.g. GameManager.instance.StartGame()). We want to refactor everything so that we can finally use Assembly Definitions as they make sure that our code becomes more modual. But to get to this point we would like to visualize which class uses which other classes to get a better overview and a point to start the cleanup from. So does anybody know about such a program/extensions/whatever that can also display usage?

Greeting :slight_smile:

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Rider. :wink:

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We use Rider :slight_smile: But how can it visualize usages? I haven’t found this feature yet

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I think it’s under Tools => Architecture Diagram or something like that.
It creates a class diagram with dependencies of assemblies. Thinking about it, if the entire codebase is in the same assembly it may not be too useful.

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Yes that’s exactly our problem so I guess this won’t help us yet.

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Check out documentation libraries like doxygen and similar. Doxygen with graphviz enabled can generate a dependency diagram if I remember correctly. You’d still have to navigate to each class though.

There are also dependency management products out there, NDepend comes to mind.