Question

When you are typing with Intellisense and it shows you the parameters within a class, you can select a parameter and keep going until you arrive at the base level. When you are debugging, Visual Studio lets you stop on objects and inspect all of the parameters or fields within them.

Is there a way to build a treeview or diagram of all of the class parameters? I have a large class that included ton of sub objects and properties and I would like to build a view of all of its properties.

Answer 1

If you are just talking about being able to visualize your classes (through Visual Studio, not actually building a hierarchy through code) you can do it like this: In Visual Studio, click View – Class View. This will give you a tree view of your classes.

If you click View – Object Browser you will see a tree view of classes in other assemblies too, not just your classes.

EDIT

I think you are looking for something like the Solution Navigator in the Productivity Power Tools Visual Studio extension. Click Tools – Extension Manager – Online Gallery. Search for Productivity Power Tools and install it. You will then see an option under the View menu for the Solution Navigator.