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Where is the class diagram in Visual Studio 2017 edition

I couldn't find how to create existing class diagrams in VS2017 Community Edition. Is it available for Community Editions. Could you please help me how to create class diagrams of the project?

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The public version doesn't allow you to do this.



Support for VS 2015 versions for architecture and modeling tools

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I'm assuming you mean class diagrams and not UML diagrams. Starting in Visual Studio 2017, class diagram support is not installed by default. You must explicitly select it during installation:

  1. From the start menu, launch the Visual Studio installer .
  2. Click the Change button for your installation.
  3. Click the Individual Components tab, scroll down and select Class Designer . Click the Change button.


The complete procedure with screenshots is described here (since our product VSdocman also uses this function if you want to generate class documentation with diagrams).

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I was under the impression that you are not talking about the UML diagram feature that has indeed been removed. I am assuming you are talking about a class diagram .

First of all, as Peter pointed out , make sure this feature is installed on your system.

Then as answered here this is a known issue ( VOTE! )

As a workaround: in the New File dialog, create a simple XML file named Diagram.cd

(replace Diagram

with your choice), right-click the file and select Open with ..., then select XML (Text) Editor and then replace its content. with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ClassDiagram MajorVersion="1" MinorVersion="1">
  <Font Name="Segoe UI" Size="9" />
</ClassDiagram>

Then close the file and save it. When you open it normally, it should work now.

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Apparently Microsoft has decided not to add this functionality to Visual Studio 2017 for any of the product versions blogs.msdn.microsoft.com

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