Add Project Dependency Visualization

[giddingsra0]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

JetBrains Rider IDE has this neat feature to visualize project reference dependencies for large .NET projects. For example, one application I work on has 36 separate projects in it (some client libraries for third party communication, some REST projects for different domains, some EF Core projects for DB communication for different domains, some Xunit test projects, and some MQ publisher and consumer projects for EDD).

Anyway, determining project dependency (and dependencies of dependencies) paths in large .NET projects can be a pain point solved by Rider's ability to visualize project dependencies.

NOTE: Rider uses yFiles to diagram, but this SDK is not available to work with JS/TS.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to see flow diagram (reminiscent of the image below from Rider) to visualize project dependencies within a solution. This will help determining what other projects may be affected if I make a change to a library or client project. Using the image below as an example, if I make a change to the Example.Library1, I want to be able to visualize what other projects may be affected by that change directly AND indirectly.

Let's say I change Example.Library1, and the dependency flows Example.Library1 -> Example.Daemon -> Example.Main.Data, I want to see that I may need to review code/run tests/whatever else in Example.Main.Data because I made a change in Example.Library1.

To get the project diagram in Rider to see how it works:

• open a project solution with many projects in Rider
• Right-click any project in the explorer pane on the left
• Select 'Tools' -> 'Show Project Diagram'
• You can select or de-select any project in the solution and see the flow of dependencies
• You can also click the to click a specific project and see the direct neighbors of that project
  

This type of visualization tool would be INCREDIBLY useful as a part of this extension for us VS Code devotees.