Software design is a difficult and complex task. The Visual Studio Class Designer is a fully-functional, visual design environment for the Common Language Runtime. It lets you visualize the structure of classes and other types and through these visual representations edit their source code. Changes made to the class diagram are immediately reflected in code and changes made to the code immediately affect the appearance of the designer.

In this MasterClass! Microsoft Certified Trainer Mark Long shows you how to use the Class Designer as well as how to make it even better! Work files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

Regular expressions provide a powerful, flexible, and efficient method for processing text. The extensive pattern-matching notation of regular expressions enables you to quickly parse large amounts of text to find specific character patterns; to validate text to ensure that it matches a predefined pattern (such as an e-mail address); to extract, edit, replace, or delete text substrings; and to add the extracted strings to a collection in order to generate a report. For many applications that deal with strings or that parse large blocks of text, regular expressions are an indispensable tool.To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.