CodeMaps + VisualD?

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 30.12.2015 03:53, Jason Jeffory wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 09:01:51 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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>> On 29.12.2015 02:19, Jason Jeffory wrote:
>>> Is it possible to get code maps to work with D in VS2015? It would be a
>>> nifty feature to have and surely not too difficult to make work, even if
>>> not perfect due to D's advanced capabilities(although if one can program
>>> code map translations, possibly these features could be represented!?)!
>>>
>>>
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>> I could not find any documentation on the implementation. I suspect it
>> is private to the respective language packages, so no public
>> interfaces to plug another language into the UI part.
>>
>> Given that code maps are not available in the community versions of
>> VS, only in pro and enterprise versions, adding this feature might be
>> too much work for its benefit.
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> Do you think it would be difficult to develop a basic code visualizer
> for D in VS? Not something that is super advanced but something that
> essentially just shows the hierarchical relationships that exist.
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>

As far as I understand the Code Map from a short video 
(https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Visual-Studio-2012-Premium-and-Ultimate-Overview/Visual-Studio-Ultimate-2012-Understanding-complex-code-with-Code-Map-ENU) 
it needs a rather elaborate graphical interface and good semantic 
analysis (find references). "Find References" in Visual D is still 
rather experimental. So I expect implement "Code Maps" would be quite 
some work, and would base on shaky information from the semantic analysis.

For a hierarchical view of classes and their inheritance, there is also 
the Object Browser based on compiler generated information.