Class Designer

The class diagram opens in Class Designer and appears as a file with a. Cd extension in Solution Explorer within the project hierarchy.

Describes how the Class Designer can be used to visualize pre-existing code.

Also it describes the application method of each kind of interface models, including the class designer and control widget toolbox.

The Class Designer is a new editor that graphically displays classes and types, and allows methods to be added or modified.

Class Designer allows you to visualize systems and applications.

In Class Designer, you can view the inheritance relationship, if one exists, between a base type and its derived types on the class diagram.

Explains how to use the Visual Studio Class Designer as a tool to help you understand classes and types written by others.

Class Designer, for visually representing inheritance and association relationships between types.

After you do this, Class Designer should be able to display the type.

Class Designer allows you to modify members of types displayed on the diagram.

Contains a procedure that demonstrates how to reorder the parameters of methods in types shown in the Class Designer.

It is given a default name that you can change in Class Designer, the Class Details window, or in the Properties window.

The member now exists in code and is displayed in Class Designer, the Class Details window, and the Properties window.

When you double-click a partial method in a class shape, Class Designer goes to the partial method declaration.

Describes how Class Designer can be used to visualize pre-existing code.

Class Designer supports only unidirectional associations.

Provides information and links to topics about creating and configuring type members with the Class Designer.

Both delegates and interfaces enable a class designer to separate type declarations and implementation.

Changing source code is immediately reflected in the display of signature information in the Class Designer and the Class Details window.

Provides information about creating and configuring type members with the Class Designer.

Class Designer does not keep track of the location of source files.

In Class Designer, you can rename a type or a member of a type on the class diagram or in the Properties window.

For more information about troubleshooting specific error messages, see the error topics in Class Designer Error Messages.

Explains how to create a member using any of the following tools: Class Designer, Class Details window toolbar, or Class Details window.

Association lines in the Class Designer show how classes in a diagram are related.

The type is not in the correct scope, so Class Designer cannot locate it.

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Class Details Window (Class Designer).

Given these similarities, when should a class designer use a delegate and when should they use an interface?

Given these similarities, when should a class designer use a delegate and when should it use an interface?

In Class Designer, you can remove a type shape from the class diagram without affecting the type's underlying code.

Launches Class Designer to display a diagram of the classes in the current project.

Explains how to use the Class Designer to define an inheritance relationship between two types currently displayed in a class diagram.

In Class Designer, you can create types on the class diagram by dragging them from the Class Designer toolbox.

Class Designer cannot display types that are void or that derive from a void type.

The Class Designer toolbox appears and contains shapes and lines you can drag to the diagram.

Class Designer can display nested types but not the relationships between a nested type and other types.

Provides guidance for creating type members with Class Designer.

This delay might also cause Class Designer to throw the error No types were found in the selection.

Class Designer supports partial classes and methods.

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You can view source code by right-clicking a shape in the Class Details window (or the Class Designer) and then clicking View Code.

In Class Designer, you can allow members such as methods and properties in a child class to override members inherited from a base class.

The Class Designer (shown in Figure 3-22) is a visual design tool for examining and manipulating the structure of classes and other types.

Describes how to view class relationships with Class Designer, test objects with Object Test Bench, and run the code analysis tools.

Display of Read-Only Information (Class Designer).

From the Class Designer toolbox, drag a type shape to the class diagram.

Contains a procedure that demonstrates how to use the Class Designer to implement an abstract class.

The Class Designer toolbox appears.

You can use Class Designer to implement an abstract class.

Open and select a class diagram file in Class Designer.

Explains how to delete types from your project through the Class Designer.

Class Designer supports only native C semantics.

It is also possible to use refactoring tools from the Class Designer window.

Select the type in Class Designer.

Explains how to inherit from a generic type with the Class Designer.

How to: Customize Class Diagrams (Class Designer).

Explains how to override type members with the Class Designer.

Explains how to use the Class Designer to implement an Abstract Class.

Describes how to apply custom attributes in the Class Designer.

Explains how to visualize existing types in the class designer.

How to: Implement an Abstract Class (Class Designer).

How to use Class Designer to design, view, and refactor classes and other types.

You cannot edit partial methods by using the Class Designer or the Class Details window; you must use the Code Editor to edit them.

Describes how to rename a type or member in the Class Designer.

Describes how to reorder parameters using the Class Designer.

Describes how to group members of types in the Class Designer.

How to: Create a Member (Class Designer).

Class Designer might not be able to resolve types for the following reasons

From the Class Designer or Class View, you can create instances of objects and display them in

To create a member using Class Designer

You cannot edit partial methods by using the Class Designer or the Class Details window;