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Visual Studio Architecture, Visualization, Modeling, and UML Tools
Got feature suggestions for Visual Studio?
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You can now post your ideas about how to improve Visual Studio and vote on them on the Visual Studio User Voice site . There are categories for Visual Studio Ultimate , Test and Lab Management , Team Foundation Server , and other specific areas. For more...
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Visual Studio ALM at Microsoft TechEd 2011
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Lots of exciting stuff, so check out the session videos on Channel 9: The Future of Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management ALM for C++ in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Understanding Your Systems with Architectural Discovery...
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Social media and other resources about software architecture, visualization, modeling, and UML with Visual Studio 2010 now on our blog
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The right side of our blog now features Facebook and LinkedIn communities that focus on software architecture, visualization, modeling, and UML where you can find news, discussion, and other useful content. I also added other resources and a list of blogs...
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How to: Visualize and describe workflow using UML activity diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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9 months ago
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This short YouTube video shows how you can visually describe process workflow by using UML activity diagrams. You can link activity diagram model elements to work items, such as test cases, in Team Foundation Server: For more information about activity...
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How to: Visualize and describe users' requirements using UML use case diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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9 months ago
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This short YouTube video shows how you can visually describe a software system's users' requirements by using UML case diagrams and link use cases to work items in Team Foundation Server: For more information about use case diagrams, see the following...
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How to: Validate code against the architecture using layer diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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9 months ago
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This short YouTube video shows how you can visually describe your software's architecture on a layer diagram. You can also validate code against the diagram to maintain architectural control of the code. For more information about layer diagrams...
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Updated Architecture Tooling Guide for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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9 months ago
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The VS ALM Rangers have updated this guide , which includes automated guidance, hands-on-labs, and videos that show how you can use the Visual Studio architecture and modeling tools to help you understand an existing software system or create a new system...
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New samples: Create UML elements quickly and run unit tests on UML extensions
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9 months ago
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Alan Wills has created these new samples that help you work with UML more easily in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and has posted them up on the Code Samples Gallery: How to create UML elements quickly by typing text How to run unit tests on UML...
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Samples that extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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9 months ago
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Alan Wills has created several samples that let you extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate in the following ways: Link model elements to diagrams, files, and other items Color classes based on their stereotype Align shapes on a...
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Developing Windows Phone 7 apps with the help of dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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10 months ago
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Chris Lovett, an architect on the Visual Studio Ultimate team, wrote an interesting article about developing his first Windows Phone 7 app. He shows how he used dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to help him visualize and understand the...
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How to visualize your code or system with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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11 months ago
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Each of these videos are less than 2 minutes long and provide very quick overviews of how you can use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to perform the following tasks: Explore large codebases in Architecture Explorer Visualize code relationships on...
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Export XMI Sample for Visual Studio UML Diagrams
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over 2 years ago
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Steve Cook , a software architect on the Visual Studio team, has created a sample that shows how you can access the UML metadata in Visual Studio's modeling project system and export that data into XMI format for use with other tools. For more info...
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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 expands test capabilities and includes code visualization + modeling tools from previous feature pack
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over 2 years ago
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This feature pack has just been released and includes the following capabilities: Testing features: Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications. Create coded UI tests for Silverlight...
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MSDN Video Series: How to explore unfamiliar code in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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These videos show how you can use code visualization tools, such as dependency graphs, DGML, and Architecture Explorer, to help you understand what's going on in unfamiliar code: What are dependency (DGML) graphs? How can I use dependency graphs...
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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate helps you gain better control over code dependencies
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over 2 years ago
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There's two ways that you can approach this in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate : - At the physical level You can visualize your code from the top-down by generating dependency graphs at the overall assembly, namespace, or class level, and then drill...
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What do you think of Visual Studio 2010?
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over 2 years ago
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Jason Zander wants you to tell MS directly : "It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy digging in and taking VS out for a spin. Your feedback was invaluable to us as we were building VS - thank...
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Trouble with work item links and model elements in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?
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over 2 years ago
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Why aren't linked model elements appearing in my work items? In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, links between model elements and work items travel in one direction only, from the element to the work item. This means that when you link an element to a...
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Architecture Tooling Guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
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over 2 years ago
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The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have provided this practical guidance for the modeling tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. This guidance provides common usage scenarios, hands on labs, and lessons learned from community discussions. These scenarios include...
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August 2010: MSDN Library Content Update: Modeling the Application
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over 2 years ago
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Modeling the Application Visualization and Modeling SDK – Domain-Specific Languages We're continuing the big overhaul of the VMSDK (was DSL Tools) topics to make them more accurate and more useful. With the VMSDK, you can define domain...
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July 2010: MSDN Library Content Update: Modeling the Application
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over 2 years ago
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We published the following updates last month. Please let us know how useful these improvements are to you and if there are other areas that you would like to see covered? For more details about additional July VSALM content updates, click here...
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Channel 9 video series: UML with VS2010 Ultimate
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over 2 years ago
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Clint Edmonson , an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, has posted a series of videos that show how to use the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate visualization and modeling tools in your software development process: Part 1: Brainstorming a Project Part...
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Channel 9: Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools
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over 2 years ago
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In this video, Cameron Skinner describes and shows how to use these tools so you can better understand and manage the complexity of your applications: http://bit.ly/aTSvDf
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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate + Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack
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over 2 years ago
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It’s been some time since we updated this blog, so to bring things up to date, we released the visualization and modeling tools for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate in April. These tools make it easier to develop software that meets its users' needs...
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How Do I: Use the Retooled System Designer in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition?
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over 4 years ago
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One of the major changes in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition is the ability to design systems with a Top-down approach. Richard Hundhausen has posted a great little video walking through the new feature. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en...
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Architectural Roles
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over 4 years ago
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This blog discusses the new Architectural Roles feature available in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition . Architectural Roles (or Roles for short) are an extensibility point, allowing software architects to embellish objects of Application...
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