What's new in Microsoft Visual Studio Visualization & Modeling SDK 2013 RC

Sep 10, 2013
  • MSBuild tasks that enable the indexing of assemblies and PDB files as part of a build or on the command line. The code index is used by Code Map, but it can be used on its own as well.
  • Project templates that help developers create graphical or form-based (Windows Forms and WPF) designers for use in Visual Studio to view and modify models for a custom domain-specific language.
  • Project templates that help developers create extensions for the Architecture Tools in Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RC.
  • MSBuild tasks that enable the generation of textual artifacts at build time for any use of T4.
  • Reference assemblies and IntelliSense documentation for the DSL Tools runtime, which is included in Visual Studio 2013.
  • A migration tool that helps DSL authors migrate designers from Visual Studio 2012 VsVmSdk SDK to work with Visual Studio 2013.
  • Header files that contain Command IDs for the graphical designers and the architecture tools (UML designers, Layer designer).