2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Creating a custom command extension
demo
Creating a custom command extension

8. 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

9. Creating a custom gesture extension
demo
Creating a custom gesture extension

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

11. Creating custom validation constraints
demo
Creating custom validation constraints

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

13. 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

14. question & answer

15. Related Blogs Mark Groves Cameron Skinner
Steve Cook
Peter Provost
Jean-Marc Prieur
Mark Groves

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Related Content
Breakout Sessions (session codes and titles) DEV313 - Architecture Discovery and Validation with Visual Studio 2010
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