Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

6.2. Revising Visual Studio Class Diagrams

In Chapter 2, I briefly mentioned that Visual Studio 2010 allows you to establish base/derived class relationships visually at design time. To leverage this aspect of the IDE, your first step is to include a new class diagram file into your current project. To do so, access the Project Add New Item menu option and select the Class Diagram icon (in Figure 6-2, I renamed the file from ClassDiagram1.cd to Cars.cd).

Figure 6.2. Inserting a new class diagram

Once you click the Add button, you will be presented ...