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Just catching up on blog reading and came across this post from Cameron: http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/archive/2010/05/08/sequence-diagram-re-linq-and-lambdas.aspx It gives the details of of a small extension to UML sequence diagrams introduced in our VS2010 implementation to cope with deferred execution...

Videos of the VS2010 launch and deep dive sessions at the recent Tech Days UK event are now available. Also See my earlier post about this event. Goto http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/ click on the Resources tab and then choose the video you’re interested in watching. I’ve embedded the video of my...

Writing this as I come back from speaking at Tech Days in London, in a series of deep dive sessions following the launch of VS2010. The venue was a cinema in Fulham Broadway. The place was full (between 500 and 600 people), indeed over-subscribed. I understand that some folks who turned up were turned...

Just came across this. Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006781

It’s great to see that the RTM version of the Visualization and Modeling SDK is also available at the launch and release of Visual Studio 2010. For details check out http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vsvmsdk . See also Jean-Marc’s announcement of this. As well as the DSL Tools which has been much improved...

In Visual Studio 2010, released today, there is a new visualization tool which, in-the-box allows you to generate a quick graphical view of your code, amongst other things. Chris Lovett was a key architect of this tool, and has some great blogs about it’s features and how to get the most out of it. See...

I just came across this post from Charles Sterling with a bunch of useful links: http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2010/04/09/getting-started-with-visual-studio-2010-alm-features.aspx

I recently gave a talk at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference held in London recently. I gave a demo of the visualization and modeling tools in Visual Studio 2010, and received some very positive feedback about the tools from a number of those attending. In the final part of my demo, I showed...

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 launches today across the world, and I have the pleasure of giving a talk tomorrow at the UK Tech Days event in London as part of a set of deep dive sessions into the new release. For details see http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/daydev.aspx . I’m going to be demonstrating...

As mentioned in this post , the UML designers in VS2010 Ultimate now come with a set of APIs that makes them easy to extend. I see that Peter Provost has now posted the first of a series of articles (going by the title of this one) explaining how to get started: Extending Visual Studio 2010 UML Designers...

Back from holiday (in Cyprus, 30 degrees C, very relaxing thanks), and as I suggested might happen in my previous entry , I see that Jean-Marc has blogged about DSL Tools in VS2010 Beta2: We released the DSL SDK for Visual Studio Beta2 this morning .

I see that Jean-Marc has just posted another sample on the DSL Tools Code Gallery landing page , this time about the new IMS Locks capability. This allows you to make some parts of your models read-only, which is good for situations where some users (say an architect) are allowed to make changes to some...

Jean-Marc has just posted a ModelBus Adapters project template on the Visual Studio Gallery . This template makes it easy to a modelbus adapter and adapter manager to your own DSL, which exposes your DSL for reference and access from other DSLs. This compliments the sample recently posted, as described...

One of the most common asks from customers of the DSL Tools has been support for integrating models and designers, that is the ability to have models of the same or different DSL cross-reference one another, and the ability to write simple code that exploits these cross-references to implement interesting...

In Visual Studio 2010 you’ll find a new extension manager that makes it much easier to package and deploy extensions to Visual Studio. Pedro has more information: Early Buzz on the VS SDK and Extension Manager , Introducing VS Extension Manager . We’ve exploited this to deploy DSL Tools. Gone has the...

Gareth has been posting a lot about T4 over the past few months. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of all his posts, in chronological order. Lots there to get your teeth into. Fun use of T4 to generate strongly-typed web navigation More general-purpose T4 goodness Hanselman gives T4 some love Another...

When we released DSL Tools for VS2008, the migration story from VS2005 was not great: basically we provided a sheet of manual instructions which led to a fragile and long-winded experience. This time we’ve done a lot better. In the VS2010 DSL SDK Beta1 you’ll find a migration tool that converts your...

It seems that my blog entries and those of some of my colleagues ( Steve , Jean-Marc , Gareth ) are like London buses: you wait for ages and then three come at once. And I’m definitely the worst offender – that bus which breaks down all the time. Anyway, the reason why we’ve been so lax is that we’ve...