NDepend and Inheritance Diagram in VS 2010

Question

Is there a way to draw the inheritance tree diagram with NDepend? (I can only find the Dependency diagrams which are not good for me).

If not, does anyone know of a tool that can do so?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible to generate Class Inheritance Graph with NDepend. It is explained in the documentation here.

Notice the proposed pattern:

• First query code elements you want to see in a dependency graph
• Second export the code elements matched in the query result, to the graph

That can be also applied to other kind of Graph:

• Dependency Graph
• Call Graph
• Coupling Graph
• Path Graph
• All Paths Graph
• Cycle Graph

Code query result can also be exported to the NDepend dependency matrix, that is more suited to see other kind of code structure patterns:

• Layered Code
• Dependency Cycle
• High Cohesion - Low Coupling
• Too Many Responsibilities
• Popular Code Elements
• Mutually Dependent