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Now This Looks Cool : Class Designer for VS 2005

Via Dave Donaldson's post, I came upon this post describing the Class Designer for VS 2005:

“But the real benefit is the real-time code synchronization. The Class Designer is in your project and is directly generated from your code. It is not generated from meta-data, but instead is generated from your VB or C# (or J#) code directly. This means that changes to the diagram are changes to your code. Changes to your code are changes to the diagram. The two are totally linked, because the source for the diagram is the code.“

I've always had to force myself to do class designs.  And honestly, I might as well draw them on the white board and erase them after I write the code rather than use Visio.  Why?  Well, the Visio code generation never worked right for me, and when it did work, my diagrams quickly became out-of-date. All these diagrams just ended up as “Source Safe Sludge” - You know, all that crap that ends up in VSS that you'll never use, but don't want to delete either.  Hopefully, this will be the answer for me. 

-B


Posted 06-23-2004 11:18 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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Darrell wrote re: Now This Looks Cool : Class Designer for VS 2005
on 06-23-2004 7:31 AM
Totally agree. If you are in VS 2005, you know it's up-to-date because it is the code.

As a side note, any time a class diagram or ERD or other modeling diagram is printed on paper, put a label that says "guaranteed to be accurate until " + today's datetime. :)
DarthPedro wrote re: Now This Looks Cool : Class Designer for VS 2005
on 06-24-2004 12:34 PM
Yeah, Class Designer and the continuous code synchronization is great.

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