In Visual Studio, users can validate the source code in a project against a layer model so that they can verify that the source code conforms to the dependencies on a dependency diagram. There is a ...

To see which editions of Visual Studio support this feature, see Edition support for architecture and modeling tools. You can validate code manually from an open dependency diagram in Visual Studio or ...

"What [Architecture Explorer] does is it goes through your solution, parses all of the code and visualizes that to allow you to see your application." Another tool that will be introduced is ...

To understand how security requirements are mapped to a typical services-oriented architecture, the diagram shows Web services deployed at the consumer and access layers (through Web portals where end ...

At Tech-Ed, Microsoft also announced a new version of extensions for connecting Visual Studio 2008 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 v1.2, which, the company said, will "allow developers to use ...