Currently I'm exploring my way through all the new features added to the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 IDE and I found a feature that will hopefully be of great help to me. The UML Modeling tool in the Architecture Edition. I wanted to create a new test project, nothing special. I started out with creating just a standard UML Logical Class Diagram. Then after I had finished I wanted to export my diagram to C# code with class stubs but I couldn't figure out how to do it. So naturally I consulted MSDN, but I couldn't find any reference to the top down approach of design and sort of gave up on it. Then I happened to be on the Channel 9 website and I watch the Top down architecture video and they alluded to the possibility of Visual Studio 2010 being able to accomplish this task.
So I guess my question is, can Visual Studio 2010 take a Logical Class Diagram and generate code stubs from it?
I'm currently using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Team System on Windows 7 (if that helps any).
Thank you
Try the following topics from the RC docs:
You might also check out this blog post by Tim Fischer helps: "How To: Generate Code from Team System UML Diagrams in VS 2010 Team System Beta 2 (Update 4)"
Here is the first code-snippet about how to generate code from UML-Diagrams using T4 Text-Templates.alt text http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/timfis/WindowsLiveWriter/HowToGenerateCodefromUMLDiagramsinVS2010_1234B/image8_thumb.png
Here's another blog post by Oleg Sych: UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010
Assuming that reader is already familiar with UML, it focuses on custom UML profiles - an
extensibility mechanism that can be used to tailor UML models to a particular problem
domain. Readers will see an example of such a profile, which extends UML Class Diagrams for
database modeling. Finally, the article shows how code can be generated from UML models using
T4 text templates.
I've posted more links on my profile for more info.
You answer is Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack. This pack gives your what ever you need regarding code generation from Visual Studio 2010 modeling facilities and more.
According to MSFT, the answer is no. Or at least, it is not built in by default though may be delivered by extension. See here