Documenting visually with Mermaid diagrams

There’s no better way to convey a concept than with a diagram, especially to non-techies like managers. Mastering the skill of diagramming will make you a more persuasive leader in meetings and accelerate your career because it will enhance your reputation with the people who sign the pay checks.

With the right tool, like Mermaid, you don’t need graphic design skills to produce attractive, useful diagrams to bring the team together to all understand a solution architecture or code design decision. Mermaid is a good choice for .NET developers because Microsoft source code management hosts like GitHub have built-in support for rendering Mermaid diagrams.

In any Markdown file (.md), just define a Markdown code block and indicate the code is mermaid, as shown in the following code:

```mermaid
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Mermaid’s syntax is designed to be simple and intuitive, allowing developers to quickly create and incorporate...