The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have just released the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance. Here is the description of the guidance:
Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, focused on modeling tools. This release includes common usage scenarios, hands on labs and lessons learned from community discussions. The scenarios include understanding and reverse engineering an existing solution or starting a new solution from scratch. These are both common challenges that any dev lead or architect faces. The intent is not to give you an in-depth tour of the product features, but to present you with examples that show how these tools can support you in real world scenarios, and to provide you with practical guidance and checklists. This guidance is focused on practical ways of effectively using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and other tools to create a new or revised design as part of application lifecycle management (ALM).
The Rangers involved with this project are: Alan Wills (MSFT), Bijan Javidi (MSFT), Christof Sprenger (MSFT), Clemens Reijnen (MVP), Clementino de Mendonca (MVP), Edward Bakker (MVP), Francisco Xavier Fagas Albarracín (MVP), Marcel de Vries (MVP), Michael Lehman (MSFT), Randy Miller (MSFT), Tiago Pascoal (MVP), Willy-Peter Schaub (MSFT), Suhail Dutta (MSFT), David Trowbridge (MSFT), Hassan Fadili (MVP), Mathias Olausson (MVP), Rob Steel (MSFT) and Shawn Cicoria (MSFT).
There are three separate packages available for download, including:
- Common Questions and Scenarios --> Start here
- Common Questions and Scenarios Visual Studio Extension Guidance Package (forthcoming)
- Hands-On-Labs (HOLs), including:
- New Solution Scenario (HOL)
- Reverse Engineering Scenario (HOL)
- Extensibility Extensions (HOL)
- Extensibility Layer Diagrams (HOL)
- Reusable Architecture (HOL)
- Validating an Architecture (HOL)
For more information, visit the Architecture Tooling Guidance site.