How do you know who are dependent on the project?

Question

I have solution with 30+ projects, so they are have many references. I have one project into solution. And want to know who are dependent on this project?

Thank you!

Answer 1

There are broadly two ways to accomplish this.

First, if you right-click the project (or solution) and select Project Dependencies you can see a list of dependencies for each project. This gets you "Which projects does project X depend on" but not easily "Which projects depend on project X".

Alternately, if you happen to have Visual Studio Ultimate you can right-click your .sln file and select Show on Code Map. This is a much more comprehensive way of visualising dependencies in your solution (namespace- and type-level as well as project-level), but sadly isn't available in lower editions of Visual Studio.

Alternately, both ndepend and Resharper both provide third-party ways of visualising dependencies.