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Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:33 PM

PDC 2009

Realized I haven’t mentioned that I am planning on giving a talk at this year’s PDC. Here’s that abstract: Visualization, UML, and DSLs Cameron Skinner Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Edition introduces a whole host of new designers
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Monday, October 26, 2009 1:22 PM

Providing Feedback

By now, you’ve pulled down the Beta2 bits and have started exploring. ( No you say? Please check this post for details on how to get the bits…. ) You may have questions, want to express concerns, find bugs and want to report them, or in general just look
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:52 PM

Custom Toolbox Items

[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here .] When defining layer diagrams for your organization, or various other modeling concepts and diagrams that you want to make available to your team, you can of course simply check in
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:20 AM

DSL SDK for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Released

Jean-Marc has just posted some great details on the Beta2 version of the DSL SDK. The amount of capabilities that have gone into the DSL Toolkit this version has been great to see. That team has done a fantastic job of increasing the power of what a DSL
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Monday, October 19, 2009 3:44 PM

Lovett is Blogging!

Chris Lovett , an architect on my team who has a glorious and long history with Microsoft, has finally joined the blogosphere! His expertise is all things .NET, but in particular he knows the code behind the new DGML graphs and dependency diagrams that
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Monday, October 19, 2009 2:13 PM

“First-time Experience” with Arch Tools

[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here .]   Ok, you’ve downloaded the Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 . Now you want to explorer the new Modeling and Visualization tools. This post will help you
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Monday, October 19, 2009 9:37 AM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2!!!

Ok, it has been a little while since I blogged last, but it is for good reason, and now’s the time to show you why. The entire Visual Studio team, including my own, have been working extremely hard to get the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 release squared
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 )
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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
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