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Hello, can anyone guide me on how to generate System Sequence Diagram from a .NET assembly file??? Has anyone done that before???

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Have you seen this yet? Someone asked the same question on another site a little over a year ago with a bunch of good responses. Nothing that solves the issue fully, but a lot of good links for ideas and starting points.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxtoolsdev/thread/67b6904f-9d5f-479a-8a21-250a77e3fe19

The answer I tend to agree with the most from this forum is the following:

To generate a sequence diagram, I guess you need a profiler that can be attached to a piece of ececuting code to write the actual calling sequence to an output file. It would be particularly nice to have a tool that could generate a sequence diagram from a unit test.

Perhaps this is a useful starting point for such a tool: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/dotnetprofiler.aspx

David Stratton
I've actually used Enterprise Architect ( http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/features.html ) to attach to a service and generate a sequence diagram. It's not free but I was pretty impressed although there is some work in filtering the results to the correct granularity.
Tuzo