Visualize Your Application Entities with MSAGL (Toolkit for .NET Devs)

CatchyBytes Techy — Sat, 31 May 2025 13:10:55 +0000

Working on a large C# or .NET project where entities are getting tangled up?

I recently ran into this while dealing with a moderately complex app:

“Wait… what’s related to what again?”

So I created a small but powerful tool using MSAGL (Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout) — and turned it into a downloadable project that you can use right away.

🧰 What It Does

This toolkit lets you visualize relationships between entities in your application or domain model — like User, Post, Comment, etc. — using clean, auto-arranged graph diagrams.

Here's what you get:

✅ A ready-to-run C# project using WinForms and MSAGL

✅ A sample visualization with Dummy Nodes

✅ JPG output of the graph

✅ Just open in Visual Studio and hit Run

I've packaged everything into a downloadable zip on Gumroad.

👉 Get the MSAGL Entity Visualizer Toolkit

You’ll get:

Full Visual Studio solution
Sample image output
Ready To Run Application
Clean code you can tweak for your own entities

💡 Why I Made This

This started as a blog post explaining how to use MSAGL to visualize application structures. But devs might want a plug-and-play solution instead of starting from scratch.

Rather than leave it as just a code sample, I turned it into a micro-product. Simple. Useful. Done.

Inspired from my Blog post : https://simplifyyourday.blogspot.com/2023/07/Graph-visualization-using-MSAGL.html

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Visualize Your Application Entities with MSAGL (Toolkit for .NET Devs)