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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:18 PM

C++ support added to Class Designer in VS 2007 March CTP

The March CTP of Visual Studio 2007 will have support for C++ projects in Class Designer. This will be limited only to visualizing your existing code from native C++ projects. Editing code from Class Diagrams and Managed C++ projects will not be supported
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Friday, July 29, 2005 4:56 AM

Class Designer File Format

In the past few months, we have covered Class Designer features in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 release. After reading these articles, you have probably noticed that the serialization format for the diagram file (.cd file extension) is in plain XML
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:44 PM

June CTP available

For more information about this CTP and see if you really want to install it, see this post in Rob Caron's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/06/15/429278.aspx I'll add that this build should have the option to show method signatures on
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Saturday, June 04, 2005 12:23 AM

Class Designer Hands on Lab in TechEd 2005

I will be attending this year's Microsoft TechEd in Orlando Florida from 6/6~6/10. There's a HandsOnLab (HOL007 in ARC07 track) for the Class Designer beta2 bits which you can try it out. I will also be spending 25 hrs in the ARC cabana booth. That's
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:21 PM

No Articles for the next few weeks...

You’ve probably know why we will not have blog articles for the next few weeks. The team is currently busy working on fixing bugs. We will resume our weekly blogs articles in a few weeks. In the meantime, please let us know specifically: 1. What topics
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:17 PM

PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System Designers

We’ve published a set of set of add-ins which augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and the Distributed Systems Designers. The Design Tools Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used by both
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Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:47 PM

Orphan Shape in the Class Designer

One of the biggest value propositions of the Class Designer is to keep class diagrams always in-sync with code – in fact it is supposed to be another view of your code. Code is the ‘model’ behind class diagrams. If you open a class diagram file in an
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:09 PM

Using Class Designer to document your code – Exporting diagrams as images

One of the design goals of Class Designer was to enable developers to easily document the design of applications and keep it in sync with the code. Class diagrams residing in Visual Studio projects solve this purpose very well, however more traditional
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Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:13 PM

Class Designer Integration with Source-Code Control

Class Designer Integration with Source-Code Control Class Designer is built for use with solutions checked into source-code control systems. For those of you using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), this will mean you are plugged into Team Foundation source
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Saturday, April 23, 2005 5:00 PM

Auto Layout of Class Diagrams

By now you hopefully have the beta 2 version of Class Designer. If not, maybe this beta 2 feature will convince you to get it. One of the new features in Class Designer beta 2 is Auto Layout. In the olden days (pre beta 2), the default layout you got
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:41 PM

Converting class diagram files from Beta 1 to Beta 2 format

We have created a stylesheet which can convert class diagram files (.cd) from Beta 1 to Beta 2 format. It should work in most cases. Feel free to modify it to fit your needs. Here are the steps you need to take to convert class diagram file(s) from Beta
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:11 PM

Override Members Using Class Designer

How do I do that? Whether you program in C# or VB, you’ll notice that when you type “overrides” or “Overrides” in code editor, you get an intellisense list of members that you can override. This feature has also been exposed in Class Designer: In the
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:49 PM

Create overloaded members in ClassDesigner

Overloaded members are treated specially in ClassDesigner: they’re grouped together when listed in the shape, and there’re few limitations when you want to create overloaded members. Today we will talk about the various ways and limitations to create
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:52 PM

Editing Type Members Using the Class Details Window

If you’ve used the beta version of the Class Designer, you’ve probably noticed the Class Details Window (if for no other reason than it pops up by default when you open the designer for the first time). If you haven’t tried Class Designer yet, here’s
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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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