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MSDN Library Sections

• Modeling the Application
• Extending UML Models and Diagrams
• Visualization and Modeling DSK (DSL Tools)
• Code Generation and Text Templates
• Visual Studio Feature Packs- extending the modeling and code gen capabilities
• Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management 

Downloadable Guidance

• Visual Studio Architecture Guide - Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, which is focused on modeling tools. This release includes common usage scenarios, hands on labs, and lessons learnt from the community discussions.
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework Training Course - A series of hands-on labs, which encompass Visual Studio ALM tools, specifically the following:
• - Using the Architecture Explorer in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to Analyze Your Code
• - Code Discovery using the Architecture Tools in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
• - Understanding Class Coupling with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Code Samples - Extend UML tools

Each of these samples can be used as it is, or you can adapt it to your own needs:

• Link UML Elements to Files, Word sections, Powepoint slides, other UML diagrams and elements - demonstrates how to associate data with UML elements, add decorators to UML shapes, add rules to respond to changes, define menu commands, handle drag and drop gestures.
• Align and Resize shapes - Demonstrates how to manipulate UML shapes and diagrams
• Color classes by stereotype - shows how to handle stereotypes and profiles
• Rapid Entry of models by text commands -  Shows how to set up unit tests of a UML extension or DSL
• Domain modeling extras

Code Samples - Domain-Specific Languages:

• Circuit Diagrams - demonstrates extensive customization of DSL and shapes
• DSL Tools Introductory Lab - narrative takes you through building the sample.
• Deploy DSLs in an MSI

Videos

Overviews:

• Visualization and Modeling in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (PDC 2010)
• Architecture Discovery with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (PDC 2010)

Clint Edmonson, Microsoft Architect Evangelist, has posted a video series on Channel 9 to show how to use the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate visualization and modeling tools as part of the software development process:

• Part 1: Brainstorming a Project
• Part 2: Organizing Features Into Use Cases
• Part 3: Modeling the Business Domain
• Part 4: Capturing Business Workflows
• Part 5: Architecting an Application 
• Part 6: Designing a Project's Physical Structure
• Part 7: Sketching Interactions with Sequence Diagrams
• Part 8: Revealing Responsibilities with Class Diagrams
• Part 9: Organizing and Managing Your Models

Code Visualization:

• What's New in Visual Studio 11 for Dependency Graphs
• Doug Seven: Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010 (Channel 9)
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools (Channel 9)
• How Do I: Introducing Directed Graphs (MSDN)
• How Do I: Visualize Code using Standard Dependency Diagrams (MSDN)
• Introducing Dependency Diagrams: How to Visualize Code (YouTube)
• How Do I: Find and Visualize Code using Architecture Explorer (MSDN)
• Introducing Architecture Explorer: How to Find and Visualize Code (YouTube)
• How Do I: Manage Large Dependency Diagrams (MSDN)
• How Do I: Visualize Runtime Object Graphs (MSDN)
• How Do I: Create Dependency Diagrams with Style (MSDN)
• How Do I: Generate and Interact with UML Sequence Diagrams (MSDN)

User Requirements Modeling:

• Introducing the UML Use Case Diagram (YouTube)
• Introducing the UML Activity Diagram (YouTube)

System Modeling:

• How Do I: Create and Use UML Models and Diagrams (MSDN)
• Introducing Layer Diagrams Model and Maintain Control of the Code (YouTube)
• How Do I: Validate Code using Layer Diagrams (MSDN)
• Introducing UML Component Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams / Linking Models and Work Items (YouTube)
• How Do I: Extend the UML Tools in Visual Studio 2010 (MSDN)

Blogs

• Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog
• Visual Studio Architecture, Visualization, and Modeling Tools Team Blog (retired)

Related Forums

• Visualization & Modeling Tools (this forum)
• Visualization and Modeling SDK (DSL Tools)
• Visual Studio Extensibility

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Answer 1

Very interesting! Thanks!

Answer 2

Expanded the content.

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- Alan -MSFT

Answer 3

Added several more video links.

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Answer 4

Updated and added more resource links.

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Esther Fan | Visual Studio, Content Lead | If a post answers your question, please click "Mark As Answer" on that post and mark as Helpful. Thanks!