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Dependency Graphs: Visualizing Object Graphs

Dependency Graphs: Visualizing object graphs with DGML

Among several, Visual Studio.NET 2010 has a new feature that allows you to create nice directed graphs with a markup language called DGML (Directed Graph Markup Language).

Jason Zander provides explains the feature in nice visuals; while Cameron Skinner writes in detail of how it works. 



If you are too much into the debugging scenario then, Mohammed Mahmoud has a debugger-extension that takes the output of !gcroot and creates a graph that one can interact with easily in Visual Studio 2010. If this feature sounds cool then this discussion is a must go-through.