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Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:37 AM

Interview with John Stallo

Josh Ledgard, PM in Visual Studio recently interviewed John (PM for Class Designer). The video for the first part of the interview can be viewed here (Channel 9). It is cool to see that he learnt about Class Designer from the team blog and decided to
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Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:33 AM

Refactoring Support in Class Designer

The language teams added several refactoring features to the editor in the Whidbey release of visual studio. We attempted, as best we could, to expose these refactoring features through the class designer in ways users would expect them in a modeling
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Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:38 AM

Class Designer availability

Class Designer will be availabe on all Visual Studio Editions Standard and above. There seems to be some confusion that Class Designer will only be available in Team Architect and Team Dev SKUs, so we wanted to make it clear that it is not the case. However,
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Saturday, March 26, 2005 7:20 AM

No article for this week

Oops! This is the fault on my part. The person who is scheduled to write the article is out of the office this week. Therefore, there is no posting for this week. Please come back to our site next week. Thanks! Patrick Tseng Visual Studio Class Designer
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:08 AM

Setting up and viewing relationships between classes

When I’m learning about a new program or teaching someone else about an existing one, I find it helpful to begin by identifying the key classes and seeing how they relate to each other. There are many different ways that classes can be related. Three
Posted by ClassDesigner | 7 Comments
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:58 PM

Expressing relationships between types

I believe one of the strongest things going for class diagrams is being able to holistically look at a collection of types and see how they’re related . In other words, it’s not just about getting shapes on a diagram but about the lines that connect them.
Posted by ClassDesigner | 10 Comments
Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:01 AM

Visualizing inheritance hierarchies

Hello J ! My name is Yu Xiao. I am a Software Design Engineer/Test working on Visual Studio Class Designer team. This time I am going to demonstrate how to visualize inheritance hierarchies using Class Designer. When I was reading existing code, even
Posted by ClassDesigner | 5 Comments
Friday, March 04, 2005 12:54 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer will not support the C++ language

The Visual Studio Class Designer team is sad to announce that the Class Designer will not support the C++ language in the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2005. Late last week we were forced to make a very difficult decision, which we are relaying to
Posted by ClassDesigner | 23 Comments
Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:24 PM

Visualizing class and member details in the Properties window and viewing details from tooltips

Hi! I’m Eugene Chigirinskiy , a Software Design Engineer working on Visual Studio Class Designer. In this blog entry I will give an overview of how the details of various diagram elements (classes, members, inheritance lines, etc) are visualized in the
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