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System requirements

Installation:

• Windows 7, 8 or 10
• .NET 4.7.2 framework
• 64 bits CPU

Building from source code:

• Visual Studio 2022
• Wix 311 installer
• Wix Visual Studio 2022 plugin
• Run visual studio as administrator (only required for Visual Studio analyzer COM support)

Has been tested using Visual Studio 2020 Community Edition and Windows 10 SDK 10.0.18362.0

Latest version

Sample models

Change History

9 March 2019 - Version 1.0.7007

• Initial release

12 March 2019 - Version 1.0.7010

• Fixed DSM viewer not showing element numbers and cyclic dependencies in yellow when requested

19 March 2019 - Version 1.0.7017

• Visual studio analyzer
  • Added exception logging when filter file can not be parsed

20 March 2019 - Version 1.0.7018

• Visual studio analyzer
  • Make tools version configurable (default is 14.0)
  • Log error instead of exception when source file in visual studio project not found
• Log full stack trace when logging exception

26 March 2019 - Version 1.0.7025

• DSM viewer and builder
  • Very large performance improvements on DSM builder and viewer to support large models
  • DSM builder and viewer are now 64bits processes

2 April 2019 - Version 1.0.7031

• Visual studio analyzer
  • Do not remove solution and project file extensions show they show up as separate elements in DSM
• DSM viewer and builder
  • Speedup loading DSM files by avoiding multiple xml parse runs

16 April 2019 - Version 1.0.7045

• General
  • Add metadata to dsi and dsm files and show them in overview report
  • Add setting to determine if output should be written in compressed format
  • Auto detect compressed .dsi or .dsm files during reading
• DSM viewer
  • Improved overview html report
  • Improve visibility numbers in matrix column header

28 April 2019 - Version 1.0.7057

• DSM viewer
  • Added new html reports
    • Consumers and providers of selected matrix cell
    • Provided and required interfaces of selected element

5 May 2019 - Version 1.0.7064

• DSM viewer
  • Improved html reports
• Transformer
  • Used regex for filters
• Visual studio analyzer
  • Extended unit tests for dynamic folder property

14 May 2019 - Version 1.0.7073

• Visual studio analyzer
  • Add target extension to visual studio project file element

4 December 2019 - Version 1.0.7277.38011

• Single installer for entire DSM suite
• Minor non compatible changes in DSI and DSM model formats
• Viewer fully rewritten in WPF
  • Improved look & feel
  • Show detail matrix for element or relation
  • Search element feature
  • Progress bar while opening or saving files
  • Open dsm file by clicking it after associating .dsm extension with DSM viewer

19 December 2019 - Version 1.0.7292.9302

• Functionality to edit models
  • Create, edit and delete elements
  • Create, edit and delete relations
  • Move up/ move down partition
  • Undo functionality

23 December 2019 - Version 1.0.7296.39969

• Improved edit model features
• Saving edit actions to file

26 December 2019 - Version 1.0.7299.26182

• Implemented option update existing dsm model with new dsi model
• Refined look&feel

30 December 2019 - Version 1.0.7303.12948

• Again refined look&feel
• Metrics bar in matrix currently showing number of elements and consumers and providers
• Enable ok button if edit dialogs when data is valid
• Made element search by name case insensitive
• Fixed model not cleared when loading new model
• Improved performance matrix view for large expanded models
• Reduce font size to 11 and limit weight to max 9999 to avoid drawing out side of cell
• Fixed thats actions in data model where not cleared when clearing actions via UI
• Fixed crash when element at bottom of dsm was deleted

1 Januari 2020 - Version 1.0.7305.36212

• Improved metrics view including cyles
• UI themes support
• Persist viewer settings in user folder
• Make visual distinction between system and hierarchical cycle
• Indicate consumers and providers with small colored status bar upon hovering over element
• Fix actions properly cleaned
• Fixed that dependency weights were not properly calculated after moving an element

6 Januari 2020 - Version 1.0.7310.12684

• Add beta feature toggle
  • Added to settings dialog
  • Changed ‘move element in hierarchy using drag and drop’ to beta feature, because it is not fully mature
• Always log exceptions
• Fix element order always updated after any element edit action
• Several UI layout and theme changes
• Fixed cell colors when first child expanded
• Fixed issue with show cycles setting

14 Januari - Version DsmSuite_1.0.7318.22276

• Single toot introduced in DSM
• Fixed some defects related to change element parent
• Fixed issue with show cycles setting
• Fixed feature change element parent
• Added name to single root
• Fix enable undo buton after dragging element

18 Januari 2020 - Version 1.0.7322.12836

• Improved layout settings dialog
• Remove prefix single root from transformer
• Fixed create element in root
• Ensure undo command is enabled again after element is dragged
• Change name builder setting

19 Januari 2020 - Version 1.0.7323.12273

• Fixed transitive includes not generated by transformer due to key not converted to lower case

12 April 2020 - Version 1.0.7407.13761

• Improved progress reporting
• Improved C++ analzyer
• Extend relations view with consumer and provider type
• Always log user messages
• Speedup dsm builder performance

27 April 2020 - Version 1.0.7422.19649

• Fix cell tooltip

30 april 2020 - Version 1.0.7425.17003

• Fix matrix not always fully visible when scrolling

5 May 2020 - Version 1.0.7431.22253

• Improved search feature

11 May 2020 - Version 1.0.7436.13790

• Added case sensitive search option

13 May 2020 - Version 1.0.7438.21088

• Added relative size and cycality percentage metrics
• Fixed defect with element expand when last element moved out

15 May 2020 - Version 1.0.7440.13841

• Updated metrics visualization
• Color code consumers and providers for selected instead of hovered element

24 July 2020 - Version 1.0.7510.32647

• Removed scanning for duplicated files from Visual Studio analyzer
• Implemented context DSM in Viewer

24 August 2020 - Version 1.0.7541.13270

• Improved screenshot image size
• Drastically improved performance of move element by only recalculating weight relations outside moved element and by reducing number of dictionary lookups
• Show external relations metric

5 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7553.19656

• Fixed hangup when dragging element to one of its children
• Fixed defect in element name editing and provide user help condition why name change is not allowed
  • Name unchanged
  • Name empty
  • Name contains dot character
  • Name conflicts with existing name because each full name should unique

7 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7555.13887

• Fixed defect in derived weight calculated at slight performance cost
• Show version number in title bar

9 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7557.30930

• Fixed defect that only four digits show in column header
• Changed settings default from hide cycles to show cycles
• Reverted change logging path to avoid crash

10 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7558.15280

• Fixed defect in derived weight calculated without performance cost and added unit tests

21 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7569.21989

• DSM Viewer
  • Bookmarks and annotations added
  • No compatible change in persisting edit action in DSM
  • Added legend
• DSM builder
  • Restored import by updating existing model restored
• Compare tool added to report differences between two DSI files

23 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7571.15419

• DSM Viewer
  • Implemented rich tooltips for matrix

25 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7573.13752

• DSM Viewer
  • When moving element drop at correct location When undoing move element restore at original location

26 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7574.17964

• DSM Viewer
  • Improved selection of element indicator view mode (consumer/provider, search, bookmarks, annatations)

28 Sep 2020 - Version 1.0.7576.14412

• DSM Viewer
  • Introduced search settings: case sensitive and search scope

2 Oct 2020 - Version 1.0.7580.14844

• DSM Viewer
  • Fix problem that when model becomes corrupted progress bar not hidden when loading or saving model
  • Fix problem index out range when moving elements
  • Rename element automatically when moving element to new parent where another child with same name as the moved element exist to avoid model corruption
• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Improve setting global properties of projects to avoid exceptions when loading projects
  • Use Microsoft.Build api to analyze solution file

3 Oct 2020 - Version 1.0.7581.18682

• DSM Viewer
  • Remove noticable delay in cell context menu
  • Validate actions for valid data and clear when not all actions valid
  • Sort element and relation lists
• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Write list of analyzed projects to log file

20 Oct 2020 - Version 1.0.7598.39024

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Restored ToolsVersion settings

30 Nov 2020 - Version 1.0.7639.20856

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Support macros in AdditionalIncludeDirectories

2 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7641.11706

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Support macros in AdditionalIncludeDirectories improved logging

3 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7642.14529

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Support macros in AdditionalIncludeDirectories improved logging
  • Log project properties to file for analysis when LogProjectData=true in analyzer settings file

4 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7643.13145

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Support macros in AdditionalIncludeDirectories improved logging

5 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7644.16475

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Restored cloned interface file during analysis

26 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7665.40636

• Split settings files into input, analysis, transformation and output section
• Replace logging enabled by loglevel
• Integrated transformer into analysers, to avoid extra step.
• Only calculate visual studio source file checksum when interface directorires are defined
• Cleanup of code

28 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7667.40861

• Log assembly info as user messages
• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Only verify checksums when interface directories defined
• DSM Viewer
  • Fix take screenshot

29 Dec 2020 - Version 1.0.7668.40674

• Log datamodel relation not resolved as error
• Improved compare tool
• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Fix incorrect reported resolved relation count due to not ignoring system includes

02 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7672.41007

• DSM Viewer
  • Improved look&feel DSM
  • Direct import DSI file
  • Avoid errors when editing and provide help messages for editing errors

04 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7674.19700

• Removed not longer needed DSM builder to simplify workfow
• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Improved speed
  • Improved distinction between solution and directory view
  • Improved logging of files found in multiple visual studio projects or none at all
• DSM Viewer
  • Fix screenshot

05 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7675.30795

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Improved speed
• DSM Viewer
  • Allow open dsi file when file type associated

07 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7677.13782

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Design cleanup analyzer
• All
  • Fixed resharper issues

11 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7681.13625

• Visual Studio Analyzer
  • Improved include file detection
  • Support forced includes
• C++ Analyzer
  • Improved include file detection

17 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7687.15052

• DSMViewer
  • Improved selection element indicator view mode

20 Jan 2021 - Version 1.0.7690.38992

• Analyzers
  • Fix include file parsing
  • Filter ignored name in data model
• DSM Viewer
  • Import element annotations only on leaf elements

21 Feb 2021 - Version 1.0.7722.22038

• Upgrade from Visual Studio 2015 to 2019

10 Mar 2021 - Version 1.0.7739.14096

• Java analyzers support import of multiple dot files for multiple jar file projects

4 Apr 2021 - Version 1.0.7764.12160

• Fixed issues after port to Visual Studio 2019 by updating all nuget packages to latest version (except for Mono.Cecil).

11 Jan 2022 - Version 1.0.8046.17873

• DSM Viewer
  • Improved relation and element editing
  • Removed annotations
  • Added import custome properties

12 Jan 2022 - Version 1.0.8047.21208

• DSM Viewer
  • Minor fix search box
  • Improve warning ‘name not the same as existing element’in element edit dialog

15 Mar 2022 - Version 1.0.8109.38422

• DSM Viewer
  • Improved visualisation and dragged element and drop target
  • Add logging for analyse dsi import failures

23 Apr 2022 - Version 1.0.8148.17025

• DSM Viewer
  • Fixed import error can not resolve relations when imported elements have names that start with a dot or space character.

20 June 2022 - Version 1.0.8148.17025 (no number update)

• DsmViewer ported to VS2022 and Visual Studio Analyzer removed
• Only zip installer update because WIX does not work currently.

3 July 2022 - Version 1.0.8219.18234

• Created new installer after fixing WIX install issue for VS2022
• Visual Studio Analyzer broken after upgrade VS2019 to VS2022 (will be fixed at a later point)

6 nov 2022 - Version 1.0.8344.20078

• Removed broken Visual Studio Analyzer from Visual Studio solution and Wix installer (source code still in archive)

8 sep 2023 - Version 1.0.8651.14661

• Do not merge relations upon dsi import to avoid data loss

9 sep 2023 - Version 1.0.8652.13434

• Allow adding new elements in DSM at specfic position (above or below selected element)

9 sep 2023 - Version 1.0.8652.14687

• Add visualization button pressed in dialogs

13 sep 2023 - Version 1.0.8656.11296

• Split path and name in element and relation list view
• Same for clipboard output
• Added relation cyclic to clipboard output