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Monday, December 01, 2008 9:23 AM

The UML Model Explorer

In the VSTS 2010 Architecture product, we've added another toolwindow to VS designed to help you understand and manipulate the UML models that you will be building. The UML Model Explorer ( that's what we're currently calling it, but that can certainly
Posted by camerons | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:36 AM

Model and Work Item Integration

I want to continue discussing some of the " Team Collaboration " features in the upcoming VSTS 2010 Architecture product. In this post, I want to show you how we are planning on providing you the ability to link *any* model element with any
Posted by camerons | 4 Comments
Monday, November 24, 2008 3:11 AM

VSTS 2010 Architecture : [Part Two] Model Project and 4+1 Project Template

In my last post , I introduced the Modeling project that will be introduced in the VSTS 2010 Architecture product. In this post, I'd like to demonstrate how you can leverage the extensibility mechanisms inherent in the Visual Studio Project template feature
Posted by camerons | 4 Comments
Monday, November 17, 2008 4:50 AM

VSTS 2010 Architecture: [Part One] Model Project

In my last post , I began talking about the logical structure of the VSTS 2010 Architecture product. I now want to start drilling into the various areas I outlined in that post . In this post, I want to start going deeper in the "Team Collaboration" area,
Posted by camerons | 5 Comments
Monday, November 10, 2008 5:32 PM

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture: Prologue

Now that we have made the 2010 CTP available for your use ( please see Brian Keller's post for all the details on how to get it, what's in it, activation help, etc. ), I want to start a series of posts designed to bring you up to speed on those bits and
Posted by camerons | 7 Comments
Sunday, November 09, 2008 8:47 PM

Sticky Toolbox

I wanted to make folks aware of a seemingly small but quite important new feature found in the toolbox for any of the new diagram types in the 2010 Architecture product. ( This is also a feature that all new designers built with the DSL toolkit can enjoy
Posted by camerons | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:15 PM

RadioTFS Broadcast

I had the opportunity to sit with the guys at RadioTFS and talk about the good stuff coming in the Architecture Edition in VSTS 2010. Check it out!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:20 PM

Architectural Validation and Synchronization

In one of the articles that just hit recently around our upcoming "Architectural Validation" feature in VSTS 2010 Team Architect, there was concern around how to "maintain all those diagrams" in context of the Architectural Validation or Layer Diagram
Posted by camerons | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:28 PM

VSTS 2010 and .NET 4.0

Wow, last week was a whirlwind! Dave Mendlen and myself spent a lot of time with our friends in the press on both coasts, and everywhere in between, talking about the next release of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System, now officially called "Visual
Posted by camerons | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:45 AM

Microsoft joins the OMG

Today we've announced the fact that Microsoft has joined the OMG. Please see the press release here . We're very excited about making this step. We are very interested in participating in future efforts that further the effectiveness of the UML as a collaboration
Posted by camerons | 2 Comments
Friday, July 25, 2008 4:42 PM

Blogs to take note of

Wanted to point out a couple of blogs that I would recommend checking out. James Whittaker has finally started a blog . For those of you who don't know James, he's the crazed personality behind a few books ( How to Break Software , How to Break Software
Posted by camerons | 1 Comments
Friday, July 11, 2008 4:51 PM

Layer Diagram

At TechEd2008 this year, the Rosario April CTP version of the VSTS Architecture Edition bits were demo'd during BillG's keynote by Brian Harry. Brian demonstrated the Architecture Explorer and the Layer Diagram. The Architecture Explorer is part of the
Posted by camerons | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:33 AM

DSL + UML = Pragmatic Modeling

There has been some speculation in the press recently around Microsoft's commitment to DSLs now that we are planning on supporting five UML 2.1 diagrams in the Rosario release ( Class, Use Case, Component, Sequence, and Activity diagrams ). Specifically,
Posted by camerons | 9 Comments
Friday, June 13, 2008 12:29 AM

New role running the VSTS Architecture Edition team

Ok folks, as I mentioned in a previous post , I'd like to discuss a few of the things I've been up to recently. As some of you know, I came to Microsoft in June of 2005 to build and run the team that created what is now known as Visual Studio Team System
Posted by camerons | 8 Comments
 
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