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 information, see Brian Harry's blog . If you...

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 in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

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...

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 topics on MSDN: UML Use Case Diagrams...

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, see the following topics on MSDN: Layer Diagrams...

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 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 diagram Draw bidirectional associations and omit...

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 organization of his code during the development process...

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 .

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 to visualize code? How do I manage large dependency...

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 down to more granular levels. If you have a very...

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 you! It's a great time for us to hear what you...

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 work item, the linked element does not appear in the...