Visual Studio Magazine's Editor in Chief Patrick Meader spoke with Microsoft's modeling maven Keith Short recently. Short spearheads Microsoft's effort to overcome the "curse of the CASE tools" and bring modeling tools into everyday use by mainstream developers working with Visual Studio .NET. Naturally, Meader was curious to know how Microsoft's product strategy differed from previous, largely unsuccessful efforts to popularize UML and other modeling tools. Enter Microsoft's new Visual Studio Distributed Architecture Designer technology, code-named "Whitehorse." Whitehorse will be included in the future Visual Studio .NET release code-named "Whidbey," whose second alpha version is being demonstrated at VSLive! this week.
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