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UML Designers have been removed; Layer Designer now supports live architectural analysis

October 14, 2016 Oct 14, 2016 10/14/16
Jean-Marc Prieur
We are removing the UML designers from Visual Studio "15" Enterprise. Removing a feature is always a hard decision, but we want to ensure that our resources are invested in features that deliver the most customer value.  Our reasons are twofold: If you are a significant user of the UML designers, you can continue to use Visual Studio...

Live architecture dependency validation in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

October 7, 2016 Oct 7, 2016 10/7/16
Importer
In the past year, you told us that you considered removing unwanted dependencies to be an important part of managing your technical debt. The Layer designer enables you to validate architectural dependencies in your Visual Studio solutions. It first shipped in Visual Studio 2010, and is now part of Visual Studio Enterprise. But the experience ...

Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
Amongst the improvements we’ve made to Code Maps in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM are: The icons are now consistent with Solution Explorer and other tools The following screenshot shows a code map in Visual Studio 2015 RC. You can see that, although the nodes are decorated with icons, these are of varying sizes and some are not ...

Code maps now differentiate test projects, and bring code context into map elements

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
Today Soma announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015. It adds two useful improvements to the Code Maps feature, which can make it easier to create better designs and architectures for your applications. The first improvement is in the way that code maps display and interpret test assets within solutions. The second improvement is ...

Code Map improvements in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
Code Maps, previously known as Directed Graph Documents, are a great way to visualize the relationships and interdependencies between the components of your applications. They make it much easier to understand the architecture of your (or, even more useful, somebody else’s) application, and where you should start when you need to update the ...

New ways to quickly create a Code Map

February 12, 2015 Feb 12, 2015 02/12/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
Code Maps, previously known as Directed Graph Documents, are a great way to visualize the relationships and interdependencies between the components of your applications. They make it much easier to understand the architecture of your (or, even more useful, somebody else’s) application, and where you should start when you need to update the ...

Filter link types on Code Map

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Jean-Marc Prieur
In this post, we're going to walk you through how the new "filter link types" feature on code maps can be used to analyze dependencies and declutter maps when using them to understand the design of code. Analyze dependencies I'm trying to understand the dependencies in my app (the one we've chosen is an internal, experimental tool for ...

Upcoming Changes in Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools

October 24, 2014 Oct 24, 2014 10/24/14
Jean-Marc Prieur
Introduction This post explains some of our plans for evolving our architecture and design tools in Visual Studio, including new capabilities and changes to existing capabilities that we will be delivering in the next major release and subsequent updates. Although these plans have already been informed by an analysis of usage data and ...