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138 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide
Class Details window provides additional details on the members of the Program.cs class.
Figure 5-13 is a minimal diagram of one class with a single method, Main, and you would
have seen all of the classes in the current project if there were more. This could be a good
way to help you learn about an existing base of code.
In addition to code visualization, you have the ability to perform some light design with
the Class Designer, as discussed in the next section.
Class Designer Code Generation
The Class Designer allows you to generate code graphically. On the left-hand side of
Figure 5-13, you’ll see a tab for the Toolbox. Hovering over that tab, you’ll see a group of
images for code items, such as Class, Enum, Inheritance, and more. Figure 5-14 shows the
results of using Toolbox items to enhance the existing Figure 5-14 diagram.
In Figure 5-14, you can see the Toolbox with options for what type of items you can
add to a class diagram. Each of the Toolbox items matches some type of code that you
would normally write. The class diagram itself has additional items, including an abstract
Figure 5-14 Generating code with the Class Designer