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Figure 2-26.

The Class Details window

The Class Designer Toolbox (see Figure 2-27) allows you to insert new types into your project

(and create relationships between these types) visually. (Be aware you must have a class diagram as

the active window to view this toolbox.) As you do so, the IDE automatically creates new C# type

definitions in the background.

Figure 2-27.

The Class Designer Toolbox

By way of example, drag a new Class from the Class Designer Toolbox onto your Class Designer.

Name this class Car in the resulting dialog box. Now, using the Class Details window, add a public

string field named PetName (see Figure 2-28).

Figure 2-28.

Adding a field with the Class Details window

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If you now look at the C# definition of the Car class, you will see it has been updated accord-

ingly (minus the additional code comments):

public class Car

{