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Save a diagram to Image File
I’ve been asked a couple of times now about how to save one of our UML diagrams out to an image...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 03/08/2010
Recent VS2010 “Visualization and Architecture” Webcast
I just recently presented a web cast that went quite well. Unfortunately, the resultant recording of...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 03/04/2010
Beta2 to RC Upgrade tool available
As I alluded to here, we want to make sure your migration from beta2 to RC goes smoothly. In order...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/10/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling SDK RC
At the same time that the RC build for Visual Studio is going live for our broader based customers (...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/10/2010
VS 2010 & .NET 4 Release Candidate is here!
At least for MSDN subscribers. :) Soma announced the availability here, as did Jason. Please go grab...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/08/2010
Migrating your Modeling artifacts to RC
No, the RC for VS2010 has not yet hit the wire, but it will be very soon. :) One of the great things...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/08/2010
Customer Presentations
I’m 35,000 feet in the air while I make this post ( which always geeks me out :) ), coming home...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/28/2010
Upcoming Talks and WebCast
Wanted to mention a couple of presentations that I am participating in the coming weeks. Next week,...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/23/2010
Great TFS2010 Resources
Last week was a very busy week for the Ranger team. They have just released a number of documents...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/18/2010
UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010: Part Two
Ok, so I was just sitting down, getting ready to write a nice long post about how to create your own...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/15/2010
UML Profiles and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate: Part One
[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here.] Happy new year! :)...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/08/2010
Team Build and Layer Validation
[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here.] I’ve had a couple of posts...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 11/25/2009
PDC2009: What a ride!
Just back from PDC! It was a very busy but great experience. It is always exciting to show folks all...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 11/20/2009
MSR Software Engineering Innovation ( SEIF ) Awards
Product groups at Microsoft work quite closely with the folks in Microsoft Research. Periodically we...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 11/10/2009
PDC 2009
Realized I haven’t mentioned that I am planning on giving a talk at this year’s PDC. Here’s that...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 11/05/2009
VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey
Following up on my last post, Jason Zander has actually created a simple survey that would be great...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/31/2009
Performance
There are a number of features in the product that completely depend on the source code you push...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/29/2009
Providing Feedback
By now, you’ve pulled down the Beta2 bits and have started exploring. ( No you say? Please check...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/26/2009
Custom Toolbox Items
[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here.] When defining layer diagrams...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/22/2009
Layer Diagram in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2
[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here.] I’ve had a couple of...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/20/2009
Lovett is Blogging!
Chris Lovett, an architect on my team who has a glorious and long history with Microsoft, has...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
“First-time Experience” with Arch Tools
[NOTE: This post is part of a blog series, the start of which is here.] Ok, you’ve downloaded...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
Modeling and Visualization in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
This posts marks the start of wave of posts that I plan on doing in the days and weeks ahead. Below...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
Channel 9 Video for Beta2
If you’re one of those folks who really isn’t into readying installation guides and simply want to...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2!!!
Ok, it has been a little while since I blogged last, but it is for good reason, and now’s the time...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 10/19/2009
Oracle provider Beta Available!
As many of you already know, I started my career at Microsoft as the PUM responsible for building...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 07/21/2009
Performance tips using Windows Server 2008 as Workstation
My team and I do a lot of development on Windows Server 2008. Turns out it is a great workstation...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 07/02/2009
Links
I try not to do this too much, but wanted to make sure you folks saw a couple of posts that were...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 06/06/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and DSL Toolkit SDK Beta Now Available
The Visual Studio platform team has just announced the availability of the VS 2010 SDK beta! This is...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 05/21/2009
10-4 Video on Beta 1 Installation
The guys and gals on channel9 have produced a quick video on how to get and install the Visual...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 05/21/2009
VSTS 2010 Beta1 Arrives!
Soma just announced the availability of VS 2010, VSTS 2010, and .NET FX 4.0 beta 1 here. This is a...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 05/18/2009
TechEd 2009
It's that time of the year again, and once again, we find ourselves filling the Los Angeles...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 05/12/2009
TSUG-VE
There is a new Team System user group designed to bring people together from all areas of the globe....
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 05/10/2009
Upcoming Presentations
For those of you folks who are planning to be in Munich, Germany between May 5th and 7th, please...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 04/10/2009
Oracle DSP Provider and Quest Software
I just wanted to make sure everyone had heard of the great news that was announced today at VSLive!...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/25/2009
DGML, Containers, and VSTS 2010 Architecture Rendering
I previously pointed out how easy it was to manipulate and then render a .dgml file in the upcoming...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/22/2009
VSTS Has a New Web Site
The VSTS product groups here at Microsoft are all heads down working as hard as we can to get the...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 02/06/2009
DSL Multiple Views example and other links
Mr. Provost was recently interviewed by the ElegantCode folks. Find that podcast here. Wanted to...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/27/2009
Directed Graph Markup Language ( DGML )
In this previous post I introduced you to the new format, and then this follow on post showed some...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/26/2009
Visualize Java Code
In this last post I introduced you to some very basic understanding of how DGML works. Now I want...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 01/20/2009
Channel 9 and 10-4
If you are not already aware of Channel 9, stop what you are doing right now and go check it out....
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
"Standard Graphs"
It became clear from the emails and comments to my last post that I should probably spend a little...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
Introduction to Directed Graph Markup Language ( DGML )
DGML, or "Directed Graph Markup Language" is what we are using in VSTS 2010 Architecture...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/16/2008
UML Request For Information
As you undoubtedly know by now, Microsoft joined the OMG a couple months back. Our own Steve Cook...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/16/2008
Incorporate Layer Validation in your Builds
As I promised in my last post, I want to show you how you can make Layer Validation part of your...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/11/2008
Layer Validation with the VSTS 2010 CTP
In my first post of this series, I broke down the VSTS 2010 Architecture product into "functional"...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/09/2008
VSTS 2010 CTP, Hyper-V, and January 1st, 2009
For those of you folks who have converted the VSTS 2010 CTP ( see Grant's post ) to take advantage...
Author: CameronS - MSFT Date: 12/06/2008