"Top-down" design with Visual Studio Team System 2010

Posted By: Brian Keller | Sep 30th, 2008 @ 8:41 AM | 36,364 Views | 6 Comments

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"Top-down" design is an approach that the Visual Studio Architect team is enabling with their upcoming release, Visual Studio Team System 2010. In this "humanized screencast" we asked Mark Groves, senior program manager, to show us a demonstration of the new UML designers the team is building and how this can be applied to a "top-down" approach when building software.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Tags: Architecture, Visual Studio, VSTS

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bob53050

Wow, thanks Mark for the quick overview of the designers and how they interact with one another. Great Demo Smiley

Bob Hanson

Richard.Hein
... my guitar gently weeps ...

Thanks ... I'm testing it out now.

Tareq Ali MVP

Rational XDE had the same funtionality years ago, on the other hand we expected the diagrams to be more appealing, not a black and white. Moreother, Microsoft is confusing us, sometimes, UML, sometimes, UML is nonsense!!

BTW, Where are the Application Designer, Deployment, Data Center and System Diagraming tools? does anybody is really using them seriously in previous version of VSTS?

mgroves84

Hello Tareq,

Thanks for the feedback. I can't say much about our past support of UML, but I can say we are committed to UML going forward. Microsoft has joined the Object Management Group (OMG) and is working to influence the future of the specification to make it valuable to .Net developers. Any feedback you have on our Beta 1 product would be great, we are still working on visual improvements, if you have ideas, we would love it.

We have decided to not ship the Distributed System Designers in 2010, several of the scenarios that we did find customers utilizing with those designers are covered by the UML designers we are shipping. There are other scenarios we may not be able to cover in this release, but hope to fill the gap based on customer feedback.

Thanks,

Mark