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Use schemas to edit work item types and process templates for Visual Studio Team Foundation

January 14th, 2011
Allen Clark has just blogged about making these schema files available on Code Gallery. You can drop the schema files in the Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 10.0XmlSchemas folder, and Visual Studio will validate your work item types or process template files using the appropriate schema. For more information, see ...

Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 expands test capabilities and includes code visualization + modeling tools from previous feature pack

November 16th, 2010
This feature pack has just been released and includes the following capabilities:Testing features: Code visualization and modeling features (requires Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate): For more information and to download the feature pack, visit the Visual Studio Feature Packs page on MSDN...

MSDN Video Series: How to explore unfamiliar code in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

October 27th, 2010
These videos show how you can use code visualization tools, such as dependency graphs, DGML, and Architecture Explorer, to help you understand what's going on in unfamiliar code:  For more information, see Visualizing Existing Code in the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate product documentation.PS: ...

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate helps you gain more control over code dependencies

October 11th, 2010
There's two ways that you can approach this in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate:- At the physical levelYou can visualize your code from the top-down by generating dependency graphs at the overall assembly, namespace, or class level, and then drill down to more granular levels. If you have a very large ...

How is Visual Studio 2010 working for you?

October 7th, 2010
Jason Zander wants you to tell MS directly:"It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy digging in and taking VS out for a spin. Your feedback was invaluable to us as we were building VS - thank you! It's a great time for us to hear what you think so far. We are ...

Trouble with work item links and model elements in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?

September 16th, 2010
Why aren't linked model elements appearing in my work items?In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, links between model elements and work items travel in one direction only, from the element to the work item. This means that when you link an element to a work item, the linked element does not appear in the work item. To enable bidirectional ...

Architecture Tooling Guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

September 1st, 2010
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have provided this practical guidance for the modeling tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. This guidance provides common usage scenarios, hands on labs, and lessons learned from community discussions. These scenarios include understanding and reverse-engineering an existing application or starting a ...