Aug 25, 2010 10:45 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft is offering the visualization and modeling software development kit for Visual Studio 2010 via its MSDN Code Gallery. According to the Redmond company, the MSDN Code Gallery is now the official home for all Microsoft Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK online resources.

Some developers might already be familiar with the DSL (Domain-Specific Languages) SDK, also referred to as the DSL Tools in the past.

The software giant now notes that the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK is the successor of DSL SDK.

Obviously, the resources are designed to work seamlessly with the latest iteration of Microsoft’s development platform, Visual Studio 2010.

Nikos Anastopoulos, Platform Solutions Specialist, at Microsoft's presales team (STU) for Enterprise Partners and Customers revealed that the Visual Studio 2010 RTM Visualization and Modeling SDK webpage on MSDN Code Gallery is in fact maintained by the DSL Tools team at Microsoft.

“Here, you will find the samples for the DSL Tools (Samples do not ship any longer with the Visual Studio SDK), for the Architecture tools extensibliity, you find deep dive documentation, and get links to shared source projects and other resources to help you create Graphical and Form-based Modeling Designers for Visual Studio with the DSL Tools and the architecture tools,” Anastopoulos explained.

Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK has evolved compared to its predecessor, being tailored to Visual Studio 2010.

Microsoft explains that the latest version of the SDK brings to the table content designed to enable developers to extend the Architecture tools in the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010.

Anastopoulos advises developers to “Start by reading the Read Me, discovering What's new in the Visualization and Modeling SDK for Visual Studio 2010 (was DSL SDK), reading about the Known Issues, getting more information from theForum, and downloading the samples for the Visualization and Modeling SDK for VS 2010 RTM.”

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here.
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here.
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here.

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