Peter Provost Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Session Code: DEV312 Using and Extending Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Architecture and Modeling Tools Peter Provost Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Session Code: DEV312

By the End of this Talk, you will… Understand the following about the Architecture Tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate How extensibility works in our architecture models How to create extensions to tailor the experience What you can do (and can’t do) with extensibility

A little bit about MEF MEF is a dynamic composition library created by Microsoft and ships in .NET 4.0 Visual Studio includes MEF as a new extensibility mechanism For our purposes, MEF lets us load and compose extensions into our designers and models

Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tools Design Customer Extensions Command Extensions Gesture Extensions Model Validators Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tools UML API Extensibility API Designers Models Visual Studio 2010

MEF Extension Points Context Menu Extensions Gesture Extensions Add new menu items to the context menus of our designers Gesture Extensions Add new mouse gesture handlers for designers Validation Extensions Create custom domain validation methods for models

Creating a custom command extension demo Creating a custom command extension

Creating a custom command extension Demo summary Creating an extension project Creating a command extension Using MEF Exports and Imports Creating and displaying new model elements

Creating a custom gesture extension demo Creating a custom gesture extension

Creating a custom gesture extension Demo summary Creating a gesture extension Understanding “context” and how to use it Interacting with other diagrams

Creating custom validation constraints demo Creating custom validation constraints

Creating custom validation constraints Demo summary Why you might want custom model validators How and when validators run against the model

But I want more! Simple things are simple, complex things are still possible… …Visual Studio Integration Packages can do almost anything Keep an eye open for an announcement about our PowerTools Adapters for cross diagram and model linkage and access Code generation using T4 DGML schema Easy to create DGML diagrams of YOUR data

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