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 about these areas.

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 diagrams, see the following topics on MSDN...

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.

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 extensions

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 dependency diagrams Build static and dynamic views...

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, see Cameron Skinner's blog post .

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. Modeling the Application In addition to the...

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 2: Organizing Features Into Use Cases Part...

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 by helping you perform the following tasks: ...