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Visual Studio Code Map

Visual Studio Ultimate / Enterprise editions have the Code Map feature that allows developers to visualize code elements and the relationships between them, highlight potential problems such as circular references and create mind maps of important code points.

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Is there a CodeMap alternative for Visual Studio Professional

I just saw a great video about CodeMap but to be able to create a CodeMap you need the Ultimate Edition of Visual Studio. Are there any free alternatives to CodeMap for Professioanl Edition? Even something outside of Visual Studio would be nice.
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Visual Studio Code Map: Unable to connect to the specified database

I can't use Code Map in Visual Studio due to this error: Unable to connect to the specified database. An exception occurred attempting to connect to a database using the following connection string: Data …
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Update the 'code map' in Visual Studio 2013 automatically?

I've started liking the "show on code map" that appears when you right click any class/method/field etc within Visual Studio 2013. However, I've noticed that it doesn't seem to be smart enough to 'redraw' (or be commanded to redraw) when the…
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How do you generate a Code Map diagram of your project in Visual Studio Community 2015?

Microsoft's documentation is incredibly confusing or lacking in showing us how to generate a code structure / Code Map. On visualstudio.com, in the "Compare Visual Studio 2015 Offerings" table, under Architecture and Modeling, it is shown that…
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Interactive Flowchart Like Code Map When Debugging JavaScript (in Visual Studio Code)?

When reading some big open source projects' codes, it'd be pleasant if there's a view that shows the visualization result of program executing flow when debugging JavaScript. So if there're any tools like code map for debugging javascript? Like…
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Code Map Missing Visual Studio

We just switched over to VS 2013 and I heard that you're supposed to be able to generate code maps for your entire application. Awesome feature indeed, that could get new developers on our project up to speed. Watched a couple of tutorials, but when…
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Tool "Code Map" of VS2012 in VS2010

I'd like to use Code Map, which can be used in Visual Studio 2012, also in Visual Studio 2010. If you don't know what Code Map is, this is how it looks like: here's a tutorial from Microsoft:…
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Interactive Flowchart Like Code Map in Visual Studio

I am looking for a tool to make a clickable flowchart. Very much like the Code Map found in Visual Studio (I've been using 2015 Enterprise). I want to have the clickable boxes to see more detailed content, but for any kind of flowchart diagram, not…
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What do the colors mean on VS Code Maps?

Created some code maps in Visual Studio 2013 to see if they help in any way. They're actually quite good. However, it has coloured various entities and I've no idea how it has decided what colour to use for what entity. There are blue, dark purple…
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Code Map for ASP.NET Projects in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate

I need to visualize complex business logic on a single ASP.NET page that has over thousands of lines code so I decided to give Visual Studio's own "Code Map" feature a shot, which is described here:…
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Code Map does not appear in Visual Studio 2013

I have installed Visual Studio 2013 but I can't find Code Map there. Can anyone show me where to find it?
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How to find all dependencies between two classes using VS Enterprise Code Map?

If I pull a class A and class B onto a Code Map, VSE (Visual Studio Enterprise) will map the direct calls of class A calling methods in class B. So, public class A { public void DoSomething() { b.DoSomethingElse(); } } This will…
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VS2017 Architecture Code Map generation Error Symbol name is null

I wanted to try the Code Map generation functionality out in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise on one of the projects that I'm working on. The result is a "Error Symbol name is null" on a "Error information" page with an empty "Call Stack". I have…
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How do I make Visual Studio 2015's CodeMap useable for Native C++

CodeMap looks like it would be incredibly useful, but I haven't been able to make it useable yet. My most frequent use case is extracting functionality into new classes to clean things up, but despite appearing to be exactly what I need, I can't…
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Can't add items to Code Map in Visual Studio 2015 Preview CTP 5

Selecting any class, property or variable and pressing Ctrl+` doesn't add it to Code Map. Also Show on Code Map option is not available on the "right-click" menu. I am able to generate Code Map for the Solution or make a blank Code Map, but I am…
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