Visual DGML

Writing DGML by hand is hard; so I developed a Visual DGML designer.

The designer is a graphic DSL; here is how I use it to manage the project itself:

Upon save, you get a DGML graph added to your project (click to enlarge):

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The links point to and open UML diagrams, documents, web pages, class diagrams and source code.

DGQL Tutorial

This is a short tutorial on DGQL using Visual Studio 2010.

Pre-requisite: Understanding Directed Graph Query Language (DGQL)

Simplest query:

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Create a ClassLibrary1 and add a text file (“Graph.dgql”) containing the above query to it; you will end-up with the following in “Architecture Explorer”:

Get the solution view:

+”Solution View”

Get all the elements of a solution (essentially, projects & solution folders):

+”Solution View”//

Get the class view:

+”Class View”

Get all the namespaces:

+”Class View”//

Select only “projects” in the solution:

+”Solution View”//
+Category.Is(“CodeSchema_Project”)

Select only “solution folders” in the solution:

+”Solution View”//
+Category.Is(“SolutionFolder”)

Get all “project folders” in “all projects” in the solution:

+”Solution View”//
+Category.Is(“CodeSchema_Project”)/”Node:Both:ProjectFolder”