Building Extensions for the Microsoft Visual Studio Architecture ToolsPeter ProvostSr. Program ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

SESSION CODE: DEV403

By the End of this Talk, you will understandHow 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 MEFMEF is a dynamic composition library created by Microsoft that ships with .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

Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tools

Models

Designers

UML API Extensibility API

Customer Extensions

Command Extensions

Model Validators

Gesture Extensions Work Item Link Extensions

Custom UML ProfilesCustom Toolbox Item

Extension PointsContext Menu Extensions

Add new menu items to the context menus of our designers

Gesture ExtensionsAdd new mouse gesture handlers for designers

Validation ExtensionsCreate custom domain validation methods for models

Work Item Link ExtensionPerform actions when model elements are linked to TFS Work Items

Custom UML ProfilesAdd new properties or identifiers to UML elements

Custom Toolbox ItemsA customized element or set of element that can be easily reused across models

Creating a MEF Extension

DEMO

Creating a MEF ExtensionDemo summary

Creating an extension projectUsing MEF Exports and ImportsCreating a command extensionCreating and displaying new model elementsCreating a Work Item Link Extension

Creating a UML Profile

DEMO

Creating a UML ProfileDemo summary

How custom profiles workCreating the profile.xml fileCreating new UML StereotypesCreating a VSIX package

Creating a custom Toolbox Item

DEMO

Creating a custom Toolbox ItemDemo summary

How custom toolbox items workCreating the template diagramInstalling the template for testingCreating a VSIX Package

But I want more!Simple things are simple, complex things are still possible

VS Packages for rich IDE integrationDSL and ModelBus for complex intra-model capabilities

Code generation using T4Roll your own, forward or backwardUse the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack capabilities

Layer Diagram ExtensibilityIncluded in the Visualization and Modeling Feature PackGives all three MEF-based extension points for Layer

Download the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature

Pack NOW!

Related BlogsCameron Skinner

http://blogs.msdn.com/cameronsSteve Cook

http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecookPeter Provost

http://www.peterprovost.org/blog/Jean-Marc Prieur

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmprieurMark Groves

http://blogs.msdn.com/mgroves/

Breakout Sessions

DEV402 Cool Visualizations using DGML

DEV310 Improving Software Quality with Microsoft Visual Studio Advanced Diagnostics, IntelliTrace™ and Test Automation

DEV306 Extending the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor to Visualize Runtime Intelligence Data

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Interactive Sessions

DEV08-INT Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to Understand Your Applications

Track ResourcesVisual Studio – http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/Soma’s Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/ MSDN Data Developer Center – http://msdn.com/data ADO.NET Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet WCF Data Services Team Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam EF Design Blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign

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