Is there a DGML Viewer? [closed]

Answer 1

The DGML Editor was not available in Visual Studio 2017 by default so I could not see DGML files visually and only saw them in the xml format. I had to fix this by explicitly installing the DGML editor. Please install it as such: (Tools > Get tools and features... > Individual Component > Code tools > DGML Editor)

Answer 2

The DgmlPowerTools Visual Studio 2012 package gives you the option to export DGML to SVG:

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/46b71f5f-a4d5-4867-9d50-0416f7aefe28

Alternatively, I'm pretty sure given a few free weekends it would be easy to knock up something to convert DGML to HTML (e.g. using HTML5 Canvas to display, or one of the many graphing libraries such as D3.js)...

Answer 3

Take a look at Graphviz DOT. It can generate many different graphical output formats including PNG, JPG, PDF, SVG. It uses syntax similar to DGML.

https://www.graphviz.org/

Answer 4

There is a DGML Viewer in Visual Studio 2019. You can install it via Visual Studio Installer. Just open Visual Studio Installer, click on Modify, select Individual Components, Code Tools, DGML Editor. To create the DGML files from a DbContext on an EF Core application, you can use EF Core Power Tools. The image below is from a DGML generated by EF Core Power Tools and viewed using DGML Editor. I hope it helps.

Answer 5

I encourage you to submit a request by selecting Suggest a feature on this page as further support for a standalone DGML viewer. It might help persuade the product team that there's enough of a demand for one.