PowerToys for the Class Designer and Distributed System Designer

New Post: Class Diagram using Multiple Projects

awalton — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:19:23 GMT

If I create a class diagram in Project A, then attempt to add a class from Project B, I get an error ("The selected types cannot be added to the class diagram. This may be due to limitations of the tool."). Is there any workaround for this behavior (besides editing which classes are in which projects), or is this inherent to the design of the class designer tool? I'm thinking maybe there's a relationship between the projects that can be defined to allow what I want to do.

New Post: Add type relationships?

bergloman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:57:17 GMT

hi

i think this is very useful feature.
it would add a lot of information to a class diagram and save a lot of time for developers who now have to search external files for additional documentation on how stuff works, who is calling who etc.
is it possible to include a change like this into service pack?

regards
viktor

New Post: VS 2005 version

Yaohai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:01:10 GMT

Hi there,

On the release tab, on the right up corner, there is releases box, it lists two version of PowerToys for ClassDesigner:
- The upper is for Visual Studio 2008.
- ModelingPowerToys release on CodePlex is for Visual Studio 2005.

Thanks.

New Post: VS 2005 version

sssswo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:41 GMT

Hi,

Yes, I'm also very interested in vs2005 version!

/Dec

NEW POST: VS 2005 version

standerby — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:54:33 GMT

Hey, where can I find VS 2005 version? Thanks.

CREATED ISSUE: Failure on Vista / VS2008 Development Edition

rvaas — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Hi everybody,
I installed the release on my Vista development machine with VS2008 Development Edition and .NET 3.5 on it. The installer did not complain, but when I start Visual Studio I see an error message Unspecified Error and Error Number 80004005 (see attachment).
Is there anything I can do?
Regards,
Rudi

NEW POST: Extend Powertoys with a <> relation

drupp — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:06:08 GMT

Is it possible, to extend powertoys that it can design the <<uses>> relation of the UML 2.0 standard?. The <<uses>> - relation / association is only for documentation like the existing comment - box. There will be no code generation. I tried to define a add-in for this special task but nothing worked! So my last hope is perhaps there will be a chance to get the desired functionality in extending the powertoys.
Thanks for any help, tips, ideas... !
Dave

NEW POST: Add type relationships?

Yaohai — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:54:58 GMT

Currently there is no easy way to implement this funtionality. In order to support the "uses" relationship, we need to add another type that behavior same as the "Association" relationship. This requirement can only be done inside visual studio's codebase because class designer have not published its API.

For class designer's AddIn(http://www.codexplex.com/modeling), it can augment classdesigner's features by aggreating existing features but cannot add a new type.

We will consider to implement this requirement in future release of visual studio.

Thanks

NEW POST: Is it possible to bind properties getters & setters to fields?

YangCao — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:59:03 GMT

Hi,

It would be helpful if this relationship can be shown visually, however it's also hard to track and maintain this relationship.
C# has auto-implemented property support, and VB is planning to support this too. (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384054.aspx)
Hope this language feature can make your life easier : )

Thanks,
Yang

NEW POST: Add type relationships?

covalesj — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:09:45 GMT

Hi -

Is there a way / would it be possible to add uses=style relationship lines to the class designer? So, for instance, when I have a factory method that creates instances of another class, I could show this relationship visually?

CREATED ISSUE: Export Settings: Command Bar Bug

mahara — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:39:13 GMT

When I was using VS2005 with Modeling Tools for VS2005, I encountered this problem. Now that I'm using VS2008 with the latest Modeling Tools version for VS2008, I STILL encounter this problem.

Is there any explanation why this bug still exists until now?

You can find the details here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=105493

Thanks!

NEW POST: Visual studio 2008 compatibility

Rupepa — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:30:12 GMT

Hi! Yang,

Now PowerToys for Class Designer is working perfectly in VS2008!

Congratulations! PowerToys for Class Designer is really an excellent addin-in!

Thank you.

Rupepa

NEW POST: Visual studio 2008 compatibility

YangCao — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:05:09 GMT

Hi, Rupepa,

Could you go to Menu -> Tools -> Options -> Modeling Add-Ins, and check the features' states?

A good news is, PowerToys compatible with VS2008 is published!
You could give the new release a try!

Thanks!
Yang

RELEASED: ModelingPowerToys for Visual Studio 2008 released (Feb 22, 2008)

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:58:12 GMT

This is the latest version, built on 2008/2. The installer and source code are available for download from CodePlex workspace. The installation requires the release version of Visual Studio 2008(Professional edition or higher) installed on the machine.

The main update is to support VS2008. The setup cannot install on VS2005. You can continue use previous version on VS2005. They can work side by side.

For any questions/feedback on the add-ins, please use the Class Designer MSDN forum ([url:http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=55&SiteID=1]) or discussion boards in the workspace ([url:http://www.codeplex.com/modeling/Thread/List.aspx])to post.

Thanks.

UPDATED RELEASE: ModelingPowerToys for Visual Studio 2008 released (Feb 22, 2008)

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:58:12 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: ModelingPowerToys for VisualStudio 2008 released (二月 22, 2008)

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:27:07 GMT

This is the latest version, built on 2008/2. The installer and source code are available for download from CodePlex workspace. The installation requires the release version of Visual Studio 2008(Professional edition or higher) installed on the machine.

The main update is to support VS2008. The setup cannot install on VS2005. You can continue use previous version on VS2005. They can work side by side.

For any questions/feedback on the add-ins. please use the Class Designer MSDN forum or discussion boards in the workspace to post.

Thanks.

NEW POST: Visual studio 2008 compatibility

Rupepa — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:03:39 GMT

Hi!

I followed the yeqing07's steps and did the manual configuration to make PowerToys work on Visual Studio 2008, changing version from 8.0 yo 9.0 in .addin files.
Now it appears in Tools > Add-in manager... and the commands "Filter Members", "Filter Lines" and "Filter Appeareace" appears disabled in "Class Diagram" menu. All others "PowerToys for the Class Designer" commands do not apear in menus. Also "Pan & Zoom" and "Documentation" windows don't appear in Views > Others Windows menu.

Anybody can help me?

Thanks.

NEW POST: Visual studio 2008 compatibility

YangCao — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:31:32 GMT

We don't have a timeframe yet, but we'll definitely do our best to publish it ASAP.

Thanks!
Yang

CREATED ISSUE: Adding Comments every time i left the Classdetails

David27 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:12:02 GMT

Hello,
i'm using your PowerToys to create class diagrams, but having trouble with auto added comments all the time.

- Change something in the Classdesigner which force intelli-sense to show up
- click into the classdiagramm without closing the intelli-sense-popup

Then a comment is added on the location where the mouse was clicked. I dunno if this is a feature but thats buggin me ;)

Your doing a great job, thanks for that!

Greets David

NEW POST: Visual studio 2008 compatibility

DaveG — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:16:06 GMT

I'm also very interested in finding out when the VS 2008 compatible version will be released. I would also be happy to beta test it for you.

Thanks,
Dave