R.Ramesh's WebLog

Visual Studio Team Architecture's Shanghai connection

As I had mentioned a few months ago, I moved to Shanghai a couple of years back to start a new...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 11/09/2008

Class Designer Powertoys for VS 2008

Someone pointed out that the link I provided for the powertoys is no longer valid. This is because...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 04/05/2008

The past few months...

The past few months, well, it'll be almost a year in November, I have been living in Shanghai,...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 09/06/2007

Visual Studio Team System Public MSDN Chat

Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 09/06/2006

MSDN Webcast on Class Designer

We had quite a few people attend the webcast. If you missed it you can view it from...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 10/13/2005

MSDN Class Designer Webcast

John Stallo and I will be hosting a webcast on MSDN this Friday from 11 PM to 12 noon PST. We will...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 09/27/2005

June CTP available

For more information about this CTP and see if you really want to install it, see this post in Rob...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 06/16/2005

Visual Studio Team Edition public chat

There will be a public chat on June 15th between 8 and 9 a.m PST where team members from class...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 06/11/2005

Class Designer Power Toys for Visual Studio 2005

We’ve published a set of set of add-ins which augments existing functionality in the Visual...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 05/19/2005

Converting Beta 1 class diagrams to Beta 2 format

If you have created class diagrams using Visual Studio Beta 1, they will not open in Beta 2....

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 04/21/2005

Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer Forum

The class designer newsgroup is now replaced by the Class Designer Forum. This is a technical forum...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 04/19/2005

Interview with John Part 3

Part 3 of the interview with John is now available here. In this one he talks about the various...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 04/06/2005

John Stall interview Part 2

Part 2 of John Stallo's interview with Josh Ledgard can be seen here.Ramesh.

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 04/03/2005

John Stallo talks about Class Designer

Josh Ledgard, PM in Visual Studio recently interviewed John (PM for Class Designer). The video for...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/30/2005

Class Designer availability

Class Designer will be availabe on all Visual Studio Editions Standard and above. There seems to be...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/25/2005

Class Designer and Productivity

In his blog, Modeling as a Productivity Enhancer in Visual Studio Team System, Barry raises...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/19/2005

Expressing relationships between types

John, our PM is collecting feedback on the need and value of visualizing relationships other than...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/16/2005

C++ Support in Class Designer

Thanks for your feedback/comments on this decision. As I mentioned, this was a very difficult...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/15/2005

Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer will not support the C++ language

Today we announced that support for C++ in the Class Designer has been cut. There were several tools...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/03/2005

Class Designer Team Blog

We have now set up a class designer team blog where various members of the class designer team will...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 02/24/2005

Class Designer Web Chat Transcripts now available

The web chat transcripts are now available at...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 02/18/2005

Thanks!

Thanks for your participation in the web chat. The turnout was great! There were some great...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 02/01/2005

Collection associations in Class Designer

In Beta1, Class Designer supported visualizing association relationships between two types where one...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 02/01/2005

Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer Web Chat

The Class Designer team will be hosting a Web Chat on February 1st from 5.30 p.m to 6.30 p.m PST....

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 01/25/2005

Class Designer Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Export Diagram as Image, Display Member Types

The image I created for my earlier post on the auto layout feature in Beta 2 was created using the...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 01/20/2005

Class Designer: What's new in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2?

There are some really cool features coming online in Class Designer Beta 2 - automatic layout of the...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 01/18/2005

Class Designer and performance

I am interested in finding out if you are finding any major performance issues with Class Designer -...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 10/09/2004

What do you miss the most in Class Designer?

It has been a couple of months since we shipped Visual Studio 2005 Beta1. A lot of customers have...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 08/26/2004

Editing Code through Class Diagrams

Currently the Class Designer allows you to edit the diagram (and thereby the code) through in-place...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 07/23/2004

Feedback on size of Class Diagrams

I would like to get feedback on the typical number of shapes you have in a class diagram - is it 10,...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 07/01/2004

Information on Visual Studio 2005

Someone asked me where they can find more information on learning the new concepts in VC++ 2005....

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 06/01/2004

More info about Class Designer on MSDN

Sorry it has been a bit busy the last few weeks getting ready for the Beta 1 release of Visual...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 05/28/2004

Short lived and long lived Class Diagrams

While building the Class Designer we envisioned two scenarios where a developer would create a class...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/27/2004

Class Designer in Whidbey and UML

The Class Designer is not a UML tool but uses the UML notation where it makes sense. The primary...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/06/2004

A class diagram image

Keith Short, one of the architects in our team, just beat me to putting a Class Diagram image out....

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/05/2004

Class Designer Feature in Whidbey

Hello. My name is Ramesh Rajagopal. I am part of the team that is building the Class Designer - a...

Author: Ramesh[MSFT] Date: 03/05/2004