DependenSee 2.2.0

DependenSee

Dotnet project and package dependency visualizer.

Install

Requires .NET 6 Runtime

dotnet tool install DependenSee --global

available on Nuget

Uninstall

dotnet tool uninstall DependenSee --global

Basic Usage

DependenSee root/of/projects path/to/output.html

See full CLI documentation

Sample Output (HTML, interactive)

Download this as html and open in a browser for a demo.

Command Line Arguments > 🔗

Troubleshooting > 🔗

Why DependenSee over 'X'

Current popular options are to either use NDepend, VS Architecture Explorer or Code Map. While these options are feature rich, they also has a licensing cost. If all you want is to see the dependency graph, and nothing else, it may be hard to justify the licensing cost. Then DependenSee is for you.

If you need to see the Type structure, relationships between your methods or types .etc. then you should use one of the options above instead. DependenSee is mean to be very simple, easy, straight forward to use and FREE! DependenSee does not intend to compete with the above. See Limitations

Features

• Creates the dependency graph for your solution.
• Can only include or exclude certain namespaces so the result is not overwhelming or filled with noise.
• Can create HTML, XML, JSON and Graphviz outputs
• Can return output to STDOUT for further processing by other command line tools
• Returns errors and warnings to STDERR

For full docs run without any arguments DependenSee

Privacy and Security Note

In the output, the full path to project files is used as the unique identifier. So your file structure is exposed in the generated output. It attempts to only use the subdirectory structure, so an attempt is made to hide the full path, however it is possible these paths may include your username for example, if your project was located in the default VS path/repo clone location of C:\Users\<username>\Repos\....

Keep this in mind and inspect the output if you're distributing the outputs from this tool.

Limitations

• Currently only traverses csproj and vbproj files. No other file types are supported.
• No compile results are inspected. Only the project structure is used.

License

MIT License

Support

If you are experiencing issues, please open an issue with details and reproduction steps.

Contributions

Pull requests welcome. ♥

Please branch off of dev branch and put a PR to dev for your changes. If you have a contribution you're not sure about, please feel free to open an issue. However a prior approval is not necessary for a PR to be merged.

Once approved, all pending changes (possibly multiple PRs) will be merged to main for a release to be distributed via NuGet.

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