diff --git a/dlangide.visualdproj b/dlangide.visualdproj
index 85d2fb9..a37a585 100644
--- a/dlangide.visualdproj
+++ b/dlangide.visualdproj
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@
      <File path="src\dlangide\tools\d\dcdinterface.d" />
      <File path="src\dlangide\tools\d\dcdserver.d" />
      <File path="src\dlangide\tools\d\deditortool.d" />
+     <File path="src\dlangide\tools\d\dparser.d" />
      <File path="src\dlangide\tools\d\dsyntaxhighlighter.d" />
     </Folder>
     <File path="src\dlangide\tools\editortool.d" />
diff --git a/src/dlangide/tools/d/dparser.d b/src/dlangide/tools/d/dparser.d
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9451410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dlangide/tools/d/dparser.d
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+module dlangide.tools.d.dparser;
+
+import std.d.lexer;
+import std.d.parser;
+import std.d.ast;
+import std.algorithm;
+import std.string;
+import std.path;
+import std.file;
+import std.conv;
+
+class DParsedModule {
+    protected string _moduleName;
+    protected string _moduleFile;
+    protected StringCache* _cache;
+    protected Module _ast;
+    const(Token)[] _tokens;
+    LexerConfig _lexerConfig;
+
+    @property string filename() {
+        return _moduleFile;
+    }
+
+    this(StringCache* cache, string filename) {
+        _cache = cache;
+        _moduleFile = filename;
+    }
+
+    void parse(ubyte[] sourceCode) {
+        _tokens = getTokensForParser(sourceCode, _lexerConfig, _cache);
+        _ast = parseModule(_tokens, _moduleFile);
+    }
+}
+
+/// D source code parsing service
+class DParsingService {
+
+    protected static __gshared DParsingService _instance;
+    /// singleton
+    static @property DParsingService instance() {
+        if (!_instance) {
+            _instance = new DParsingService();
+        }
+        return _instance;
+    }
+    /// destroy singleton
+    static void shutdown() {
+        destroy(_instance);
+        _instance = null;
+    }
+
+    protected StringCache _cache;
+    protected string[] _importPaths;
+    protected DParsedModule[] _modules;
+    protected DParsedModule[string] _moduleByName;
+    protected DParsedModule[string] _moduleByFile;
+    protected bool[string] _notFoundModules;
+
+    this() {
+        _cache = StringCache(16);
+    }
+
+    DParsedModule scan(ubyte[] sourceCode, string filename) {
+        destroy(_notFoundModules);
+        DParsedModule res = new DParsedModule(&_cache, filename);
+        res.parse(sourceCode);
+        return res;
+    }
+
+    /// converts some.module.name to some/module/name.d
+    string moduleNameToPackagePath(string moduleName) {
+        string[] pathSegments = moduleName.split(".");
+        string normalized = buildNormalizedPath(pathSegments);
+        return normalized ~ ".d";
+    }
+
+    string findModuleFile(string moduleName) {
+        string packagePath = moduleNameToPackagePath(moduleName);
+        foreach(ip; _importPaths) {
+            string path = buildNormalizedPath(ip, packagePath);
+            if (path.exists && path.isFile)
+                return path;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    DParsedModule getOrParseModule(string moduleName) {
+        if (auto m = moduleName in _moduleByName) {
+            return *m;
+        }
+        if (moduleName in _notFoundModules)
+            return null; // already listed as not found
+        string filename = findModuleFile(moduleName);
+        if (!filename) {
+            _notFoundModules[moduleName] = true;
+            return null;
+        }
+        try {
+            DParsedModule res = new DParsedModule(&_cache, filename);
+            ubyte[] sourceCode = cast(ubyte[])read(filename);
+            res.parse(sourceCode);
+            _moduleByName[moduleName] = res;
+            _moduleByFile[filename] = res;
+            return res;
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            _notFoundModules[moduleName] = true;
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    void addImportPaths(string[] paths) {
+        foreach(p; paths) {
+            string ap = absolutePath(buildNormalizedPath(p));
+            bool found = false;
+            foreach(ip; _importPaths)
+                if (ip.equal(ap)) {
+                    found = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            if (!found)
+                _importPaths ~= ap;
+        }
+    }
+}