L.s.,
To improve the quality of our products and code I'm looking into the
possibilities of Model Driven Development from within MS Visual Studio .NET
(Enterpise). That is, I would like to design in UML (Visio) and develop in
Visual Studio.
In an ideal world, we would first complete the entire design, generate the
skeleton code and than fill in the code. In the real world, however, design
desicions turn out to be poor (to give ourselves some credit: turn out to be
suboptimal ..;) and the design changes. Ideally, these changes would again be
made in UML and merged back into the existing code. This is where our VS .NET
/ Visio combination fails: I can only generate a new, empty solution from a
Visio model and I can only generate a new visio model from an existing code
base.
Are there solutions that are able to merge the the code and the model, so
that code changes are reflected in the model and model changes are reflected
in the code?
Regards,
Martijn Kaag
Is there a way to
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Rhett Gong [MSFT] - 20 Jun 2005 09:23 GMT
Hello Martijn,
We have reviewed this issue and are currently researching on it. We will
update you ASAP. Thanks for your patience!
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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 21 Jun 2005 10:51 GMT
Hi Martin,
>..., This is where our VS .NET / Visio combination fails: I can only
generate a
>new, >empty solution from a Visio model and I can only generate a new
visio
>model from an existing code base.
>
>Are there solutions that are able to merge the the code and the model, so
>that code changes are reflected in the model and model changes are reflected
>in the code?
I am afraid we don't have such solution with VS2003, the Visio combination
with the VS.NET is somehow loose and has some limitaion.
Howwever you can have a look on the Rationals XDE, which is an extension to
the VS.NET 2003 IDE. It is a graphical component modeling and development
tool that uses the UML. It allows seamless code generation and reverse
engineering. XDE also lets you create classes in various UML models such as
Sequence Models and Class Diagrams and the updates to those classes will be
reflected in all models that use the classes.
Please refer to the following links for further information:
Using Rational XDE with Visual Studio .Net
http://www.daveranck.com/SoftwareDev/DevArticles/173.aspx
We Compare Microsoft Visio with Rational XDE for Modeling Your .NET
Applications
http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/9749
Rational Rose XDE Developer
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/rosexde/
Thanks for your understanding!
Best regards,
Gary Chang
Microsoft Community Support
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vecozo@online.nospam - 21 Jun 2005 13:51 GMT
Hi Gary,
The Rational solution indeed seems to be the solution we are looking for.
Thanx!
Regards,
Martijn Kaag
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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 22 Jun 2005 02:55 GMT
That's OK, Martijn.
Good Luck!
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Gary Chang
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