December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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8.2 Improving Visual Studio’s Designers with the PowerToy for Class and Distributed Systems Designers
Visual Studio 2005’s Class Designer provides a great way to visualize and interact with code models, using UML-like shapes to let you define classes, interfaces, inheritance, and class members such as properties and members. The Distributed Systems Designer enables you to lay out architectural diagrams with great ease.
While Designers bring a lot of power to developers and architects, there are a lot of annoying things about them: moving around in large diagrams is painful, it’s impossible to search for a particular class, and creating associations between objects is difficult.
The PowerToy for the Visual Studio 2005 Class and Distributed Systems Designers fills these gaps and provides quite a bit of additional functionality to boot. The PowerToy is broken into two components: Class Designer Enhancements and Design Tools Enhancements. The two work together to greatly improve the usability of the Class Designer.
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Tool | PowerToy for the Visual Studio 2005 Class and Distributed Systems Designers |
Version covered | Final release |
Home page | http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=fe72608b-2b28-4cc1-9866-ea6f805f45f3 |
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Summary | Improves usability and features of the Class and Distributed Systems Designers |
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