Visual Studio Architecture, Visualization, Modeling, and UML Tools
Building tools in Visual Studio to help you understand and design software.
Where's All the Posts?
Wondering what happened to the activity on this blog? Check out the Visual Studio ALM + Team...
Date: 04/19/2012
Got feature suggestions for Visual Studio?
You can now post your ideas about how to improve Visual Studio and vote on them on the Visual Studio...
Date: 08/22/2011
Visual Studio ALM at Microsoft TechEd 2011
Lots of exciting stuff, so check out the session videos on Channel 9: The Future of Microsoft Visual...
Date: 05/27/2011
Social media and other resources about software architecture, visualization, modeling, and UML with Visual Studio 2010 now on our blog
The right side of our blog now features Facebook and LinkedIn communities that focus on software...
Date: 05/27/2011
How to: Visualize and describe workflow using UML activity diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
This short YouTube video shows how you can visually describe process workflow by using UML activity...
Date: 04/22/2011
How to: Visualize and describe users' requirements using UML use case diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
This short YouTube video shows how you can visually describe a software system's users' requirements...
Date: 04/22/2011
How to: Validate code against the architecture using layer diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
This short YouTube video shows how you can visually describe your software's architecture on a layer...
Date: 04/22/2011
Updated Architecture Tooling Guide for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
The VS ALM Rangers have updated this guide, which includes automated guidance, hands-on-labs, and...
Date: 04/21/2011
New samples: Create UML elements quickly and run unit tests on UML extensions
Alan Wills has created these new samples that help you work with UML more easily in Visual Studio...
Date: 04/18/2011
Samples that extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Alan Wills has created several samples that let you extend UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010...
Date: 04/14/2011
Developing Windows Phone 7 apps with the help of dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Chris Lovett, an architect on the Visual Studio Ultimate team, wrote an interesting article about...
Date: 03/24/2011
How to visualize your code or system with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Each of these videos are less than 2 minutes long and provide very quick overviews of how you can...
Date: 02/25/2011
Export XMI Sample for Visual Studio UML Diagrams
Steve Cook, a software architect on the Visual Studio team, has created a sample that shows how you...
Date: 12/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 expands test capabilities and includes code visualization + modeling tools from previous feature pack
This feature pack has just been released and includes the following capabilities: Testing features:...
Date: 11/16/2010
MSDN Video Series: How to explore unfamiliar code in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
These videos show how you can use code visualization tools, such as dependency graphs, DGML, and...
Date: 10/27/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate helps you gain better control over code dependencies
There's two ways that you can approach this in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: - At the physical level...
Date: 10/11/2010
What do you think of Visual Studio 2010?
Jason Zander wants you to tell MS directly: "It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual...
Date: 10/08/2010
Trouble with work item links and model elements in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?
Why aren't linked model elements appearing in my work items? In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, links...
Date: 09/16/2010
Architecture Tooling Guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have provided this practical guidance for the modeling tools in Visual...
Date: 09/16/2010
August 2010: MSDN Library Content Update: Modeling the Application
Modeling the Application Visualization and Modeling SDK – Domain-Specific Languages We're...
Date: 09/16/2010
July 2010: MSDN Library Content Update: Modeling the Application
We published the following updates last month. Please let us know how useful these improvements are...
Date: 08/10/2010
Channel 9 video series: UML with VS2010 Ultimate
Clint Edmonson, an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, has posted a series of videos that show how to...
Date: 07/29/2010
Channel 9: Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools
In this video, Cameron Skinner describes and shows how to use these tools so you can better...
Date: 06/29/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate + Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack
It’s been some time since we updated this blog, so to bring things up to date, we released the...
Date: 06/28/2010
How Do I: Use the Retooled System Designer in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition?
One of the major changes in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition is the ability to...
Date: 02/04/2008
Architectural Roles
This blog discusses the new Architectural Roles feature available in the Visual Studio Team System...
Date: 01/15/2008
Top-Down System Design by Delegating Behavior
We’ve added a cool new feature called Delegation to the System Designer to really simplify top-down...
Date: 08/30/2007
Importing & Exporting Custom Prototypes
You may not be aware, but within Visual Studio Architecture Edition you can create customized...
Date: 08/23/2007
Team Architect Power Tools
We've just released the Team System Architecture Edition Power Tools. The new download is available...
Date: 08/15/2007
Intellisense within Web Service Details
One of the features that we shipped within Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects...
Date: 06/09/2007
New Path Editor for the Domain-Specific Language Tools (DSL Tools)
In the DSL Tools, paths are used in a DSL definition to specify how to navigate from one object in...
Date: 06/05/2007
Team Architect Power Tools
Over the course of VS2005 and now “Orcas”, we’ve received a good amount of feedback on the...
Date: 05/14/2007