Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed

Chapter 21. Modeling

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Team Architect Artifacts

• Designing Your Application

• Defining a System

• Defining Your Infrastructure

• Deploying Your Application

• Implementing Your Application

• Visually Developing Code

Software modeling is moving out of the documentation phase and becoming a core development task. All too often software is modeled during initial design when expectations are high and intentions are great. However, as the project progresses, it can become difficult to keep the models updated. When the code base starts diverging from the models, this documentation can be quickly rendered useless.

Visual Studio 2005 is Microsoft’s first step at moving software modeling out of this documentation mode and into the ...