How the keep your class diagram synchronized with your code?
Well in the current version of visual stutio team system is the feature of the class designer very useful. Only this is a representation of the system in a static way. What me personally help to get a quick overview of the system are sequence diagrams. That give me a overview of the calls between objects and which methods calls which method of a specific class. Well I hoped sequence diagrams were also a part of visual studio 2005. But no. A quote from
Visual Studio Team System - Class Designer (February 1, 2005) says
Ramesh_MS (Expert):
Q: Will VS2005 include any designers to model the behavior of classes, such as a sequence diagram tool or a collaboration diagram tool?
A: Unfortunately VS 2005 will not include such designers.
An other quote from
Private MVP Chat with the VSTS Team (April 27, 2005) says:
JWelton_MS (Expert):
Q: Are you planning on integrating Visio's UML modeling (Similar to Rational Activity Diagrams) and integrating it with Team System. Or are you planning on creating any other diagraming tools, such as Sequence Diagrams, Use Cases, etc?
A: This will not be part of Team System in this version. We are currently considering additional modeling options for v.next. For the VS2005 timeframe, Visio is our UML modeling solution
Well searching further I found this:
Borland has an addin for this. You can find a demo
there site.