XrmToolSuite.PluginDependencyGraph 1.2026.7.11

🕸 Plugin Dependency Graph

An XrmToolBox plugin that builds a dependency graph of the Dataverse plugin pipeline — assembly → type → step → image → message/table → custom API → solution → config — so you can safely refactor, merge, remove, or deploy plugins without missing hidden dependencies. It adds high-impact, duplicate-step and unmanaged-registration detection with severities. Read-only: it inspects plugin-registration and solution metadata; it never modifies steps or assemblies.

Features

Exports

The graph and findings export to seven formats:

• PNG
• SVG
• PDF
• Excel workbook
• JSON (written indented / pretty-printed)
• GraphML (round-trips node/edge types)
• HTML (self-contained)

Help & Support

A Help button on the right of the toolbar opens a Help & Support dialog with Documentation, Report an issue, and a support link, each opened in your browser. The tool implements IHelpPlugin and IGitHubPlugin, so XrmToolBox's own tool-menu links resolve to the same GitHub project (kkora/XrmToolSuite).

Build & install

Fastest path — build straight into your local XrmToolBox on the same machine:

dotnet build src\Tools\XrmToolSuite.PluginDependencyGraph\XrmToolSuite.PluginDependencyGraph.csproj -c Release -p:DeployToXTB=true

This is not a single-DLL tool: it ships the Excel/PDF export dependency chain (ClosedXML + PdfSharp/MigraDoc-GDI). The one-step build copies the tool DLL and its dependency DLLs into the XrmToolBox Plugins root (never a subfolder, or XrmToolBox silently drops the tool from the Tools list and Excel/PDF export fails). PNG export uses the GAC's System.Drawing, which is never shipped. For manual distribution and troubleshooting, see ./DEPLOYMENT.md and the suite guide Deployment_Guide_XrmToolBox.md. Restart XrmToolBox and open Plugin Dependency Graph.

Usage

1. Connect to your environment (System Customizer or higher recommended).
2. Load the plugin pipeline — assemblies, types and SDK steps load with progress and cancellation.
3. Explore the graph; Focus a node to isolate its subgraph, or filter by table/message/stage/mode/solution.
4. Review the risk findings panel (high-impact assemblies, duplicate steps, unmanaged registrations) and node details.
5. Export to PNG / SVG / PDF / Excel / JSON / GraphML / HTML to share or archive.

Notes & limitations

• Read-only — inspects plugin-registration and solution metadata; it never modifies steps or assemblies.
• Secure config is never exposed — a step's secure/unsecure config usage appears as a flag/edge only; the secure-config value is never retrieved, and the unsecure config is shown with a redacted preview (secrets, GUIDs and long tokens masked).
• Custom-API relationships come from customapi.plugintypeid and degrade silently when absent.
• All Dataverse access runs off the UI thread via RunAsync / RetrieveAll with progress + cancellation; any query failure degrades to an informational note rather than failing the graph.
• The SDK-free graph model / builder / risk rules / emitters are covered by testing/UnitTests/PluginDependencyGraphTests.cs.