Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Creating a Class Diagram

There are a couple of ways to create a class diagram. The first is to add a class diagram to your project from the Add New Item dialog box. Here, you select a class diagram template (.cd) and add it to the project. You can then add items to this diagram from the Toolbox or from existing classes in the Solution Explorer.

The second way to add a class diagram to a project is to choose View Class Diagram from the context menu for a given project. In this way, Visual Studio generates a class diagram from an existing project. This option is shown in Figure 6.49.

Figure 6.49 Launching the Class Designer.

In either case, you ...