The Visual Studio Class Designer Power Toys (aka Modeling Power Toys) gets a VS2010 Refresh. Think “Export your Class Diagrams as HTML, nested types, pan/zoom window and more…”

Visual Studio Data - Class Designer PowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 is Released

“Class Designer PowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 is released today! It provides a bunch of enhancements to Visual Studio 2010 Class Designer. Click here to download it now.

It has many cool features like pan/zoom window, floating properties window, fast navigation, etc. You could find the detailed feature list in its help document which is available on the desktop after the Class Designer PowerToys is installed.

Besides the binary, the source code is also available. …”

CodePlex - PowerToys for the Class Designer and Distributed System Designer

“This set of add-ins augments existing functionality in the Visual Studio Class Designer and the Distributed Systems Designers. It now supports Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.

The Design Tools Enhancements add-in provides a common set of features that can be used by both the Class Designer and the Distributed System Designers, such as pan/zoom window and rich formatting commands. The Class Designer Enhancements add-in provides additional functionality for the Visual Studio Class Designer, such as HTML export and nested type creation commands.

This download includes all necessary source code and a Visual Studio project template for creating your own add-ins for the Visual Studio designers. The Class Designer is a developer productivity tool available in Visual Studio Standard Edition and above, which allows developers to easily visualize, design, refactor, and document their code.

The Distributed System Designers enable software architects, operations managers, and developers to visually design service-oriented solutions and validate them at design time against their operational environments. The Distributed System Designers are a core component of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects and the Visual Studio Team System.” [GD: Description leached in full with minor edits for readability]

PowerToys for the Class Designer and Distributed System Designer - ModelingPowerToys for Visual Studio 2010 released

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This is the latest version, built on 2010/7. The installer and source code are available for download from CodePlex workspace. The installation requires the release version of Visual Studio 2010 (Professional edition or higher) installed on the machine.

The main update is to support VS2010. The setup cannot install on earlier VS versions. You can continue use previous versions on VS2005 and VS2008. They can work side by side.

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Talk about passing the test of time… I first blogged about this Power Toy in 2005 when it was hosted in GotDotNet workspace (Class Designer Powertoy)… lol

Source is still included in the download (i.e. not via the Source tab) with the install MSI.

(via The Morning Brew - The Morning Brew #651)

 

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