John Stallo talks about Class Designer- March 30, 2005 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.http://blogs.msdn.com/r.ramesh/archive/2005/03/30/403826.aspx Class Designer availability- March 25, 2005 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.http://blogs.msdn.com/r.ramesh/archive/2005/03/25/402321.aspx Class Designer and Productivity- March 20, 2005 In his blog, Modeling as a Productivity Enhancer in Visual Studio Team System, Barry raises excellent points regarding the areas where the Class Designer can really help developer productivity in the code generation scenarios. I couldn't agree more. However, class designer being a V1 product in Visual Studio, we had to make some hard choices on scenarios we want to focus on and successfully deliver them with high quality. Firstly, we wanted to make sure that class diagrams created...http://blogs.msdn.com/r.ramesh/archive/2005/03/19/399274.aspx |