Although the removal of the Externals group gives us a better idea of what is going on, it makes it difficult to distinguish between the application assemblies and those that were previously grouped as Externals. This can be fixed by adding a node property to give external assemblies a different color. Click the button on the panel and select + Legend Node Property | Is External. Note: Select the Legend button from the toolbar if necessary. Figure Creating a node property that targets IsExternal The Is External node property is added to the Legend panel. Left-click on the gray box to the right of the Is External property and select the Background… option to load the Color Set Picker window. Figure Modify the background color based on IsExternal property In the Color Set Picker window, select the True drop down and pick the color red (or another color other than blue) and select the OK button. Figure Select a different color for this property when it is True Figure Dependency graph showing external assembly nodes in red
Although the removal of the Externals group gives us a better idea of what is going on, it makes it difficult to distinguish between the application assemblies and those that were previously grouped as Externals. This can be fixed by adding a node property to give external assemblies a different color. Click the + button on the Legend panel and select Node Property | Is External. Note: Select the Legend button from the toolbar if necessary. Figure Creating a node property that targets IsExternal The Is External node property is added to the Legend panel. Left-click on the gray box to the right of the Is External property and select the Background… option to load the Color Set Picker window. Figure Modify the background color based on IsExternal property In the Color Set Picker window, select the True drop down and pick the color red (or another color other than blue) and select the OK button. Figure Select a different color for this property when it is True Figure Dependency graph showing external assembly nodes in red
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