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What do you miss the most in Class Designer?

It has been a couple of months since we shipped Visual Studio 2005 Beta1.  A lot of customers have started looking into Class Designer.  The initial response has been great.  We have also been getting great feedback on features that customers would like to see in the product through the logging of bugs/suggestions at the MSDN Feedback Center. Thanks to all that have participated so far. Comments have ranged from "we need something similar to the UML Sequence Diagrams" to "I would like to see member details on the shapes in the class diagram."

Logging these issues helps us to understand and track them.  More importantly, it gives customers a voice to 'vote' for their favorite feature.  While we can't promise all these suggestions will make it into the product this release, adding votes to your favorite feature will certainly increase the likelihood the important ones will.   Suggestions that don’t make it into this release will be tracked and considered for future releases.

Here is a link to a customer's blog on the class designer features he would like to see in the product.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

Published Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:56 PM by R.Ramesh

Comments

 

Rob Caron's Blog said:

August 26, 2004 11:39 PM
 

Travis Plummer said:

The ability to drag a table from solution exporer to the design surface and gen a customizable biz object, sproc detail form or whatever would really rock. Please include this.

August 26, 2004 9:34 PM
 

Srikanth Bhakthan said:

As mentioned in the blog (http://www.zen13120.zen.co.uk/Blog)

It will be nice to have the full method signatures and also an option to 'print'/'save' the whole method names and its signatures.

PS: This will be helpful for documenting the interfaces.

Note:I'm not sure if there is an option already available to do that in VS 2005.
August 27, 2004 8:09 AM
 

Thomas Eyde said:

That it works!

I have a file based web project, but no Class Diagram!!!
September 9, 2004 3:26 AM
 

R.Ramesh said:

Hi Thomas,
This is a limitation of the Class Designer in that it doesn't support file based web projects. We are looking into adding support for this in Beta2. In the meanwhile, we'd appreciate if you go and add your vote to the bug logged on this issue (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx?feedbackid=4e0d2608-4790-419c-8797-e4d746eb153b).

Thanks,
Ramesh.
September 9, 2004 9:46 AM
 

drebin said:

What *IS* the "Class Designer" - I don't see anything labeled that way or references to "what" it is??
September 15, 2004 11:43 AM
 

r.ramesh said:

Here is the link to the class designer whitepaper http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/clssdsgnr.asp. You can also read my other blogs on the class designer.
September 15, 2004 12:02 PM
 

drebin said:

I got that part, but it says it's in Visual Studio 2005, I don't see it?
September 15, 2004 12:34 PM
 

R.Ramesh said:

I am guessing your question is that you don't see the Class Designer feature in the Beta1 bits you have.

The Class Designer is not supported in the Express edition, so if you have the Express edition you won't see CD.

Otherwise, you can add a new class diagram either from the Add New Item dialog on a Project or right clicking on any class from the Class View (View, Class View) and selecting View in Diagram. I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Ramesh.
September 15, 2004 12:44 PM
 

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