VS2012 Code Card Tool in VS2010

Question

I would like to use the Code Map, which can be used in Visual Studio 2012, also in Visual Studio 2010.

If you don’t know what a Code Card is, here is what it looks like:

here is a tutorial from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dn194476.aspx

Somehow you can use this in VS2010, or are there any similar tools that display different method calls? Under this, I want to display the Method1() method, which calls another method called Method2() . This should appear as in CodeMap (without using a hierarchy call, I want to see it with the user interface). It should be free or extension for VS2010.

Answer 1

I don't know the free version that offers what Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate Edition offers, but you have several alternatives:

• NDepend uses the Call Graph option
• You can open VS2010-solution in VS2012
• Debugging Canvas offers a similar feature when debugging
• Architecture dependency graphs and sequence diagrams