Comments on: Visual Studio 2008 Class Diagram

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:23:17 +0000

Ayana it is likely that you don’t have it in your version of Visual Studio. It seems that it is not available in all versions.

By: Ayana

Ayana — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:24:27 +0000

I don’t seem to have a template for Class diagram. I go to the Solution Explorer and select to add a new item, but Class Diagram is not present in the list of templates. Do you know why?

By: P11D

P11D — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:50:27 +0000

Class designer is well enhanced in Visual Studio 2010.

By: Alex da Ukrainian

Alex da Ukrainian — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:38:19 +0000

Joel, your point about properties is valid. It is unfortunate that class designer isn’t using the automatic properties because it forces people to switch between designer and code to have working code.

I think current implementation of Class Designer is relatively useless, but it does come in handy sometimes. So if you do use it, there is a free and lightweight PowerToy add-in to add some neat functionality to the designer, by the way, and it can be found here: http://www.codeplex.com/modeling. Check it out.

Thanks for the blog!

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:57:02 +0000

Your point is completely valid. I was approaching it from the sense that the property represented a data variable of the Class, which correctly is not necessarily required. Again, I was addressing what I thought the default behavior should be (or at least what I would prefer it to be). While the example you gave is legitimate and will function, it certainly is not a style I would endorse.

Thanks

By: Nik Radford

Nik Radford — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:25:51 +0000

Second, Properties don’t require backing fields, even if they are not automatic

example, the below code is perfectly valid.

string Hello
{
get
{
Console.WriteLine(“Lots of console output”);
return String.Empty;
}

set
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine(“Lots of console output”);
}
}
}

This is because when the property is invoked, the JIT compiler treats these as two seperate function

string GetHello();
void SetHello(string value);

as opposed to a property in the sense we see them as.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:06:51 +0000

Thanks, I obviously wasn’t aware of them. Do they function the same way?

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:35:18 +0000

fyi… Class Diagrams were introduced in VS2005, not VS2008