Building Extensions for the Microsoft Visual Studio Architecture Tools

1. Required Slide SESSION CODE: DEV403 Building Extensions for the Microsoft Visual Studio Architecture Tools Peter Provost Sr. Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

2. By the End of this Talk, you will understand • How extensibility works in our architecture models • How to create extensions to tailor the experience • What you can do (and can’t do) with extensibility

3. A little bit about MEF • MEF 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

4. Customer Extensions Command Extensions Gesture Extensions Work Item Link Extensions Custom Toolbox Item Custom UML Profiles Model Validators Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tools UML API Extensibility API Designers Models Visual Studio 2010

5. Extension Points • Context Menu Extensions • Add new menu items to the context menus of our designers • Gesture Extensions • Add new mouse gesture handlers for designers • Validation Extensions • Create custom domain validation methods for models • Work Item Link Extension • Perform actions when model elements are linked to TFS Work Items • Custom UML Profiles • Add new properties or identifiers to UML elements • Custom Toolbox Items • A customized element or set of element that can be easily reused across models

6. Creating a MEF Extension DEMO

7. Creating a MEF ExtensionDemo summary • Creating an extension project • Using MEF Exports and Imports • Creating a command extension • Creating and displaying new model elements • Creating a Work Item Link Extension

8. Creating a UML Profile DEMO

9. Creating a UML ProfileDemo summary • How custom profiles work • Creating the profile.xml file • Creating new UML Stereotypes • Creating a VSIX package

10. Creating a custom Toolbox Item DEMO

11. Creating a custom Toolbox ItemDemo summary • How custom toolbox items work • Creating the template diagram • Installing the template for testing • Creating a VSIX Package

12. But I want more! • Simple things are simple, complex things are still possible • VS Packages for rich IDE integration • DSL and ModelBus for complex intra-model capabilities • Code generation using T4 • Roll your own, forward or backward • Use the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack capabilities • Layer Diagram Extensibility • Included in the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack • Gives all three MEF-based extension points for Layer Download the Visual Studio 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack NOW!

13. Related Blogs • Cameron Skinner • http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons • Steve Cook • http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecook • Peter Provost • http://www.peterprovost.org/blog/ • Jean-Marc Prieur • http://blogs.msdn.com/jmprieur • Mark Groves • http://blogs.msdn.com/mgroves/

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