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Monday, February 23, 2009 2:58 AM

DGML, Containers, and VSTS 2010 Architecture Rendering

I previously pointed out how easy it was to manipulate and then render a .dgml file in the upcoming VSTS 2010 Architecture product. I want to continue that discussion by showing how easy it is to indicate to the product that you need to see nodes contained
Posted by camerons | 7 Comments
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:29 PM

DSL Multiple Views example and other links

Mr. Provost was recently interviewed by the ElegantCode folks. Find that podcast here . Wanted to make people aware of the excellent work two of our MVPs ( Pascal Recchia and Anthony Guerot ) have done recently with the DSL Toolkit. Checkout this great
Posted by camerons | 1 Comments
Monday, January 26, 2009 9:03 PM

Directed Graph Markup Language ( DGML )

In this previous post I introduced you to the new format, and then this follow on post showed some of the examples of how the format is used to back some common graphs you can expect in the product. In this post, I'm going to talk about a couple ways
Posted by camerons | 3 Comments
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:09 AM

Visualize Java Code

In this last post I introduced you to some *very* basic understanding of how DGML works. Now I want to take that knowledge out for a test drive. :) What I've decided to do is a couple of things. I've decided I'm going to show how to visualize Java code
Posted by camerons | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:04 AM

"Standard Graphs"

It became clear from the emails and comments to my last post that I should probably spend a little more time describing the functionality found in the VSTS 2010 CTP a bit better, specifically that functionality involving the Architecture Explorer and
Posted by camerons | 3 Comments
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:59 PM

Introduction to Directed Graph Markup Language ( DGML )

DGML, or "Directed Graph Markup Language" is what we are using in VSTS 2010 Architecture to render graphs like the one below:   The power of DGML is in its simplicity. Let me show you what I mean. If you launch the VSTS 2010 CTP , open
Posted by camerons | 13 Comments
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:26 AM

Layer Validation with the VSTS 2010 CTP

In my first post of this series, I broke down the VSTS 2010 Architecture product into "functional" areas, and I've been slowly describing the pieces. The areas highlighted ( Modeling Project here and here , Model Explorer , and Work Item Integration )
Posted by camerons | 6 Comments
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 | 2 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 | 10 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 | 6 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 | 8 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 | 8 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!
Posted by camerons | 1 Comments
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
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