Hi Russell,

Sorry to make you wait so long for a more detailed answer. As you may have already read in the Q&A section that Kraig pointed you to, “Oslo�and Visual Studio have strong ties. While we are still not ready to talk about packaging details at the current point in time, I want to share some of the areas we are currently working on, such as the touch points between “Oslo�and the UML model designers in Visual Studio 2010. In the May CTP of “Oslo� we have shipped a utility called LoadUml.exe to load UML2 model instances (as long as they are available in XMI 2.1 file format) into the repository. Once the data is in the repository, you can use “Quadrant�as a companion tool to Visual Studio to explore and query available UML semantic data in the “Oslo�repository. For example, you can browse and drill-into available reusable components in the enterprise repository.

In this context, “Quadrant�provides some unique capabilities as a general purpose data tool, such as:

· Pervasive ad hoc query

· Relationship-driven navigation and browsing

· Editing model

· Multiple dynamic viewers

· Highly extensible UI

We see “Oslo�as an extensible platform for customers to provision the repository with custom domains, and the UML domain is one of the many available domains in the repository.Once you have data loaded into the repository, you can use out-of-box functionality of “Quadrant�to browse and discover the domain data. Without any customization, it is a great tool for viewing, querying and editing data in an “Oslo�repository database or a regular SQL server database. With a little customization using the built-in features in “Quadrant� you can quickly and easily customize the way you view and browse data. For a highly customized user experience that is very specific to the data that you want your users to browse in “Quadrant� you can edit the configuration models, extending the out-of-box experience to include the views you envision work best for your domain data.

We are actively working on our next Community Technology Preview to show these enhanced capabilities of “Quadrant� For a small flavor of what you can accomplish with the May CTP, please consider viewing the video tutorials that have been posted on our Developer Center for the “Oslo�CLR domain and “Oslo�UML domain, which you will find in the “Domains�section on the Videos page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/videos.aspx.

Feedback and follow-up questions are much appreciated!

Thank you,

Christina Storm

Group Program Manager for “Oslo�Domains and “Quadrant�/span>

Hi Russell--thanks for the question. I think some of the basic answers are in the Questions and Answers already (in the main topic and in the "Quadrant" sub-topic), but I know you're asking about more specifics. I'm working on getting you a more complete answer from others here. Thanks for your patience.

.Kraig

Hi Russell,

Sorry to make you wait so long for a more detailed answer. As you may have already read in the Q&A section that Kraig pointed you to, “Oslo�and Visual Studio have strong ties. While we are still not ready to talk about packaging details at the current point in time, I want to share some of the areas we are currently working on, such as the touch points between “Oslo�and the UML model designers in Visual Studio 2010. In the May CTP of “Oslo� we have shipped a utility called LoadUml.exe to load UML2 model instances (as long as they are available in XMI 2.1 file format) into the repository. Once the data is in the repository, you can use “Quadrant�as a companion tool to Visual Studio to explore and query available UML semantic data in the “Oslo�repository. For example, you can browse and drill-into available reusable components in the enterprise repository.

In this context, “Quadrant�provides some unique capabilities as a general purpose data tool, such as:

· Pervasive ad hoc query

· Relationship-driven navigation and browsing

· Editing model

· Multiple dynamic viewers

· Highly extensible UI

We see “Oslo�as an extensible platform for customers to provision the repository with custom domains, and the UML domain is one of the many available domains in the repository.Once you have data loaded into the repository, you can use out-of-box functionality of “Quadrant�to browse and discover the domain data. Without any customization, it is a great tool for viewing, querying and editing data in an “Oslo�repository database or a regular SQL server database. With a little customization using the built-in features in “Quadrant� you can quickly and easily customize the way you view and browse data. For a highly customized user experience that is very specific to the data that you want your users to browse in “Quadrant� you can edit the configuration models, extending the out-of-box experience to include the views you envision work best for your domain data.

We are actively working on our next Community Technology Preview to show these enhanced capabilities of “Quadrant� For a small flavor of what you can accomplish with the May CTP, please consider viewing the video tutorials that have been posted on our Developer Center for the “Oslo�CLR domain and “Oslo�UML domain, which you will find in the “Domains�section on the Videos page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/videos.aspx.

Feedback and follow-up questions are much appreciated!

Thank you,

Christina Storm

Group Program Manager for “Oslo�Domains and “Quadrant�/span>