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Visual C++ Class Designer
The release of Visual Studio 2008 brings support for using the Visual Studio Class Designer with Visual C++ projects. Look at the differences in how the Class Designer works with C++ compared to purely managed languages, and learn about the range of functionality available to C++ developers.
Language Wars All Over Again with UML
The good news about UML is it provides software developers an industry-standard language to describe problems and solutions. The bad news is it has sparked the same good-versus-bad debates that they fought over C# and Visual Basic .NET.
PocketUML Tools Add-in for Visual Studio.NET
[Update] A portable UML tool add-in for Visual Studio .NET. The author had been incorrect credited. This has been corrected.
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