round-trip engineering

[beginner]

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.

 

[Al Edlund]

Round trip engineering for database modeling is supported in visio
enterprise architect edition which comes with vs.net ea.
al

 

[beginner]

Thanks, Al.
Unfortunately I use Enterprise Architect edition for UML diagram. Does
Microsoft have any plan to implement that?

 

[Al Edlund]

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]

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.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

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

 

[David GB]

I'fve heard this somewhere before.
But if it doesn't use UML, what DOES it use?
Do we have to learn another language?
David

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

I believe the short answer is, Yes. I'm not on the Visual Studio team, so I
don't have any details. I'm just going on what was demonstrated at the
TechEd conference this year.

--
Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation

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