Re: round-trip engineering

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From: Mark Nelson [MS] (marknel_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/04/04


Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:43:46 -0700

Visual Studio 2005 has synchronized software modeling and code maintenance.
However, the diagramming syntax is not UML.

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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation
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"beginner" <beginner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:768E5DA3-9D0B-4C31-85E9-64C2D61EEA53@microsoft.com...
> Al,
> Thanks for the info. I knew professional and ea have reverse engineering
> capability. But I would like Visio to have round-trip engineering which is
> --- whenever use changes the code, the info. will be auto. changed
> accordingly in UML diagram in Visio, user doesn't need to do reverse
> engineering again.  And if user changes UML diagram info, the code will be
> changed accordingly without doing code generation again.  There is a tool
> called SDE-VS from Visual Paradigm can do the trick.  I just hope MS will
> impement this feature themselves.  Because I was told Rational Rose also
> implements this feature.
>
>
> "Al Edlund" wrote:
>
>> reverse engineering for software is supported in the the professional and 
>> ea
>> versions. The ability to create class diagrams from uml is supported in 
>> the
>> ea version. Have you checked the help facility?
>> Al
>> "beginner" <beginner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5108D93E-8286-46C8-8142-F0921CA71A6C@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks, Al.
>> > Unfortunately I use Enterprise Architect edition for UML diagram. Does
>> > Microsoft have any plan to implement that?
>> >
>> >
>> > "Al Edlund" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Round trip engineering for database modeling is supported in visio
>> >> enterprise architect edition which comes with vs.net ea.
>> >> al
>> >> "beginner" <beginner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:44295B51-698E-41A1-9E6B-DDA1EB25A92C@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Maybe some one has posted this question before, will Visio plan to
>> >> > implement
>> >> > the round-trip engineering feature in the future?  If the answer is
>> >> > yes,
>> >> > then
>> >> > when or in which version?   Thanks.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>> 


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