During Visual Studio 2010 planning, the Visual Studio team suffered the same thing that every development team suffers during planning: they had a ton of features they wanted to add and only so much time. When it became obvious that they had to cut features, they decided to invest in an extensible infrastructure...

Visual Studio 2010 can help you understand your problem domain so that you are more likely to solve the right problem. An excellent tool to accomplish this understanding is UML (Unified Modeling Language). The standard notation of UML is an effective way to share diagrams among project stakeholders and...

Over time, code starts to “smell bad” or “rot”. It evolves in ways that it wasn’t originally intended to evolve, and little hacks are sometimes made. VS 2010 fights this software atrophy via automation and integration with the overall application lifecycle, which will help you maintain control of your...

Have you ever had to work with a legacy codebase? Designing new functionality on existing applications can be daunting. There are always differences between the original design and the current implementation. The new Architecture tools within Visual Studio 2010 help you to understand the application...

From April 26-30, Cameron Skinner toured through Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Louisville, and Memphis, speaking about the new visualization, modeling, and architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010. During this tour , Cameron met with customers during the day and spoke at user groups in the evenings....