Where is Class Diagram on Visual Studio 2017 community edition

Question

I could not find how to generate existing class diagrams on VS2017 Community Edition. Is it not available to Community Editions. Could you please help how can I generate class diagrams of the project?

Answer 1

I assume you mean class diagrams, not UML diagrams. Starting with Visual Studio 2017, the support for class diagrams is not installed by default. You need to explicitly select it during installation:

1. From the Start menu, launch Visual Studio Installer.
2. Click Modify button for your installation.
3. Switch to Individual components tab, scroll down and select Class Designer. Press Modify button.

The complete procedure with screenshots is described here (because our product VSdocman also relies on this feature if you want to generate class documentation with the diagrams).