Forward Engineering in Visio 2003

[T'd-OFF Customer]

Microsoft what kind of a shell game are you playing here? Why cannot we forward engineer a database in Visio 2003 Professional

There is only two versions listed for Visio 2003, Professional and Standard. Why do I need to go back to Visio 2002 or use Visual Studio Enterprise Architect 2003 ot forward engineer a database?

I want answers..........NOW!

 

[Lori Pearce \(MSFT\)]

Visio Professional has never had "forward engineering of databases."
Forward engineering existed in Visio Enterprise 5, 2000 and Visio 2002 for
Enterprise Architects (included with Visual Studio). The Visio in Visual
Studio has not been updated to Visio 2003 yet.
--
Lori Pearce
Longhorn SDK

Microsoft what kind of a shell game are you playing here? Why cannot we

forward engineer a database in Visio 2003 Professional?

There is only two versions listed for Visio 2003, Professional and

Standard. Why do I need to go back to Visio 2002 or use Visual Studio
Enterprise Architect 2003 ot forward engineer a database?

 

[Annoying Old Guy]

Here's a question, then

I've got Visio 2000 Enterprise. I want to upgrade. What do I upgrade to in order to keep the same functionality? The documentation on the Microsoft website in this regard is extremely poor, which probably explains T'd-Off's frustration. It can certainly lead someone to conclude that the only upgrades options are 2003 Standard and 2003 Pro. Is it the case that one must buy Visual Studio in order to get the equivalent of 2000 Enterprise in a newer Visio product? I have MSDN so I looked at Visio for Enterprise Architects but it requires all sorts of .NET cruft that I don't want. I don't want to do _any_ .NET development, I just want to do some advanced UML work.

 

[Al Edlund]

Bad news, Bad news. The current V2003EA is the V2002 version. I believe the
real V2003 is coming later this year and it also is included in
VS.NET........
Al

Here's a question, then:

I've got Visio 2000 Enterprise. I want to upgrade. What do I upgrade to in

order to keep the same functionality? The documentation on the Microsoft
website in this regard is extremely poor, which probably explains T'd-Off's
frustration. It can certainly lead someone to conclude that the only
upgrades options are 2003 Standard and 2003 Pro. Is it the case that one
must buy Visual Studio in order to get the equivalent of 2000 Enterprise in
a newer Visio product? I have MSDN so I looked at Visio for Enterprise
Architects but it requires all sorts of .NET cruft that I don't want. I
don't want to do _any_ .NET development, I just want to do some advanced UML
work.