Advantages of Using Class Diagram
One of the new tools that showed up in Visual Studio 2005 that I don’t see many people taking much advantage of is the Class Diagram.
The class diagram displays the classes you drag onto it in a visual representation much like a UML class diagram does. It also lets you see relationships between your classes. But the greatest power in the Class Diagram is that it will write a lot of your code for you.
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There is a bit of a “trick” that I use routinely in Visual Studio to help me find the definition of Classes, Methods, and Variables in my solution regardless.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a video on this site because I only do videos for things that are better explained by showing you how something works. Most of what we’ve been looking at is code, which is better explained by using… well… just code.
Or, at least, it didn’t. Here’s what happened:
A couple of weeks ago, I was working on a project that required me to unzip a file. There is only one text file in the zip, so using a full-blown library like 