Visual Studio 2010 – Developer Forum (Minneapolis)

Hanging out at the Microsoft Office in Bloomington at the Visual Studio 2010 development presentation.  I thought I would blog a few notes during the session (typos are free of charge).

The day is broken into three sessions

• Drive Your Process, Kevin Grossnicklaus (ArchitectNow)
• Drive Your Design, Clint Edmonson (Microsoft)
• Drive Your Code Jeff Fattic (Scottrade)

SKU’s get simplified with this release

• Ultimate (only available with MSDN purchase)
• Premium (only available with MSDN purchase)
• Professional

Premium is the new SKU that contains both the combination of what was known as Database Edition and Professional edition.

Visual Studio is support on a go-live license so you can use it today with support.

Team Foundation Server RC1 and Beta use SharePoint 2007 and does not have a dependency on SharePoint 2010 currently.

UML and Application Diagramming support

• Layer or System Diagram
• Activity Diagram
• Sequence Diagram
• Use Case Diagram
• Component Diagram
• Class Diagram
• Dependency Diagram

There are few diagrams that support some level of round tripping with actual code and/or reverse engineering.

A feature that is really nice to the ability to select a section of code and request Visual Studio to create a sequence diagram.  In this scenario the code can generate what the code is doing. It does not defer meaning. It can not tell you what the code should do. Important to know the difference when reverse engineering into diagrams.

Question from people in the session:

Q: Can I import Visio diagrams?

A: No. XML Model Interchange (XMI) is also not supported in this release.

Q: What about database diagrams in Visual Studio 2010?

A: No, there is no (new) support for diagramming databases. You still have the database diagrams available from SQL Server and available in current releases of Visual Studio thru Server Explorer.

Resources

Download the slides from the session here.

Get access to Visual Studio 2010

• Download Visual Studio 2010 RC 1
• Virtual Machines with TFS and VS2010
• Windows 7 (Windows Virtual PC)
• Windows Vista/XP (Virtual PC 2007)
• Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008)

Learn Visual Studio 2010

• Video/Web Cast – Walkthroughs
• ASP.NET 4 Quick Hits Videos
• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Hit Videos
• Visual Studio Training Kit