R.Ramesh's WebLog

Visual Studio Team Architecture's Shanghai connection

2008-11-10T06:20:00Z

As I had mentioned a few months ago, I moved to Shanghai a couple of years back to start a new engineering team for VS Team Architecture. Now that we have announced the product at PDC and have released a CTP version of the product I'll start sharing some of the details around the work we have been doing.

If you missed PDC, you can watch the recorded sessions posted at Channel 9.

You can view Peter Provost's talk on VS Team Architecture here.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

Class Designer Powertoys for VS 2008

2008-04-06T02:53:00Z

Someone pointed out that the link I provided for the powertoys is no longer valid. This is because we have moved all the shared projects from GotDotNet to CodePlex.

You will now be able to download the Class Designer Powertoys for VS 2008 from http://www.codeplex.com/modeling.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

The past few months...

2007-09-07T05:14:00Z

The past few months, well, it'll be almost a year in November, I have been living in Shanghai, China. As you may have heard, Developer Division has started a development center here. I moved here to build a team for developing features for Visual Studio Team Architecture edition.

It has been a tremendous experience so far, both personally and professionally.

The first 6 months here I was engaged in helping the Class Designer team complete support for Native C++ and also some new language features in C# and VB. I was also involved in development of .Net VB controls like Line and Shape, PrintForm etc.

The Team Architecture team was formed in mid-May and we are now engaged in building features for the Rosario release of Visual Studio.

I hope to start blogging more often.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

Visual Studio Team System Public MSDN Chat

2006-09-06T07:37:00Z

Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Architect, Developer and Tester editions and Team Foundation Server. There will be experts on hand to answer your questions, so we hope to see you there!

Join the chat on Wednesday September 6th, 2006 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific time.

To add this to your calendar, click here.

To see your local time of when this chat is, click here.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

MSDN Webcast on Class Designer

2005-10-14T03:16:00Z

We had quite a few people attend the webcast. If you missed it you can view it from here.

Thanks,

Ramesh.

MSDN Class Designer Webcast

2005-09-27T20:25:00Z

John Stallo and I will be hosting a webcast on MSDN this Friday from 11 PM to 12 noon PST.

We will cover some of the features not covered in the previous presentations, channel 9 videos like resiliency of class diagrams in team scenarios, using class diagrams for documentation and the PowerToys and followed that by Q&A.

You can sign up for this webcast here and scroll down to webcasts on Sep 30th (for some reason if I provide the exact link for the CD webcast it doesn't seem to work).

Thanks,
Ramesh Rajagopal.

June CTP available

2005-06-16T22:46:00Z

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 the diagram.

Thanks,
Ramesh Rajagopal.

Visual Studio Team Edition public chat

2005-06-12T03:07:00Z

There will be a public chat on June 15th between 8 and 9 a.m PST where team members from class designer as well as application designer, logical datacenter designer, and deployment designer will be available to answer any questions you may have on these designers. Experts from the development, testing and program management team will also be on hand to answer questions in those areas.

When: Wednesday, June 15th, 2005 @ 8:00am - 9:00 am (PST)

Link to the chat room: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/#05_0615_DN_08

Looking forward to answering your questions.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

Class Designer Power Toys for Visual Studio 2005

2005-05-20T01:27:00Z

We’ve published a set of set of add-ins which augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer, Here is the link to the download site.

This only works with the Beta 2 build. It has some cool features like Pan/Zoom Window, MSDN Help on System Types, Dongles for easy creation of associations and inhertiance lines etc. You can find the list of all the cool features enabled by the add-ins here. There is also an add-in for the Distributed System Designer (available from the same download).

Note that the Powertoys have been moved from GotDotNet to the CodePlex site. Class Designer PowerToys for VS 2008 can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/modeling.

Cheers,

Ramesh Rajagopal.

Converting Beta 1 class diagrams to Beta 2 format

2005-04-21T19:42:00Z

If you have created class diagrams using Visual Studio Beta 1, they will not open in Beta 2. However, since the class diagram files persistence format is XML, Oleg from the Class Designer team has created a stylesheet to convert these diagrams to Beta 2. Steps on how to do so is explained here (in the class designer team's blog).

Cheers,

Ramesh.

Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer Forum

2005-04-19T20:18:00Z

The class designer newsgroup is now replaced by the Class Designer Forum. This is a technical forum to ask and answer questions regarding class designer.

Cheers,

Ramesh.

Interview with John Part 3

2005-04-07T01:00:00Z

Part 3 of the interview with John is now available here. In this one he talks about the various challeges building a V1 feature, what went into the decision making process and role of customers in guiding the design of the product and its future direction.

Ramesh.

John Stall interview Part 2

2005-04-04T04:26:00Z

Part 2 of John Stallo's interview with Josh Ledgard can be seen here.

Ramesh.

John Stallo talks about Class Designer

2005-03-30T18:27:00Z

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).

I really liked the intro text Josh had written to the video:

I've now done a few interviews with my co-workers building Visual Studio 2005. I always like to ask "Aside from your own feature, What is your favorite new thing about Visual Studio 2005?" The answer I consistently received was "the class Designer". It will be available in versions of VS 2005 from Standard on up.

It is great to see the endorsements we get from our co-workers!

Ramesh.

Class Designer availability

2005-03-25T20:47:00Z

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, it will not be available on the Express Editions.

Regards,

Ramesh.