You can view the Data Flow Analysis either as a tree view or as a graph You specify this in the Visual Studio options and the context menu command reflects the selected option
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Right-click a data item in the program open in the editor.
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To view the analysis, select either
Show Data Flow Tree or
Show Data Flow Graph which is shown in the context menu.
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Select
Backward or
Forward depending on the direction in which you want to trace the data flow.
This opens either the Data Flow tree or the Data Flow Graph in a new tabbed view in the IDE depending on the settings you
have specified in Visual Studio.