Code Canvas
Code Canvas is a new user experience for Visual Studio 2010 that provides an infinite zoomable surface for software development. A canvas both houses editable forms of all of a project’s documents and allows multiple layers of visualization over those documents. By uniting the content of a project and information about it onto a single surface, Code Canvas is designed to leverage spatial memory to keep developers orient-ed and to make it easy to synthesize information.
Here is a video of our latest demo, Code Canvas inside Visual Studio 2010.
Publications
- Robert DeLine, Gina Venolia, and Kael Rowan, Software Development with Code Maps, in Communications of the ACM, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 48-54, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 4 July 2010
- Robert DeLine and Kael Rowan, Code Canvas: Zooming towards Better Development Environments, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (New Ideas and Emerging Results), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2 May 2010
- Kael Rowan, Code Canvas, in Kael Rowan's Blog, 26 March 2009
