Re: Class Design Tools?

From: clintonG (csgallagher_at_REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:02:59 -0600

I'm not sure either which is why I'm asking Nick, thanks for responding.
The explicit reference to 'class library members' was somewhat understated
and perhaps a misnomer.

Let me put it this way. I eventually realized that it was no longer
efficient for me to write HTML manually so I adopted the use of tools such
as Dreamweaver and FrontPage that provided me with a graphic user interface
that not only results in the generation of the source 'code' but they also
support operations such as drag and drop, process controller 'wizards' that
support the logical creation of the layout itself after a few uses of which
we submit, run and then sit back to ponder the results. I still write a lot
of HTML and related client-side script manually regardless but I now always
start with an initial 'design' using the push-button interface that
generates much of the factory work. I can sit back and review my naming
conventions, the logic of my intentions and have a tool generate something
useful that I can then continue to modify or reuse as required.

I'm at the point where I want to know what options exist to do the same for
myself and others when 'designing' database schemas, xml schemas, classes
and so on.

Clear as mud? :-) 

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<%= Clinton Gallagher
"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" <nickmalik@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:xrWAd.306029$HA.7962@attbi_s01...
> I'm confused about what this tool would do.  What would you expect the
class
> to look like?  Would this happen at design time or run time?  What
> object-relational mapping should take place for persistence?  How would
the
> resulting system behave?
>
> I'm not sure if you are asking for an expert system, a questionnaire
system,
> or something else entirely.
>
>
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> "clintonG" <csgallagher@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Dq8Jso7EHA.2608@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > I'd like to know about application(s) or the name by which the following
> > process is referred which would allow a business analyst to enter the
> > following statements which when submitted would result in the generation
> of
> > class library members...
> >
> > "Are you an individual person not working?"
> >   if no, ask "have you ever worked for an employer?"
> >   if no, ask "Are you thirteen years of age or younger?"
> >   ...
> >
> > -- 
> > <%= Clinton Gallagher
> >          METROmilwaukee "Regional Information Services"
> >          NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
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> >
> >
> >
>
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