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Microsoft and UML

There is an article in EWeek this week that talks about how Microsoft will be embracing UML, and including better UML development tools in both Whidbey, and then even more improved tools in Orcas.  This is definitely very cool, Visio just does not cut it... and Rational is way to damn expensive. Lately I have been trying out Visual UML, which is pretty good, but I would love something cooked in to Visual Studio.

- James

Posted: Aug 25 2003, 07:43 PM by jamesavery | with 5 comment(s)

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Jason Kaczor said:

While still not built into Visual Studio, the absolute best price/feature ratio I have yet to see is located in the Sparx Enterprise Architect:

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/

At a client site last fall we evaluated several solutions; Rational, Sparx, Visio - Sparx kicked the pants off rational...

and the price... for "1-4" licenses is $149.00 per seat for the full-on, team-capable corporate edition...

(Did I mention it forward/reverse engineers code from C++, C#, VB.NET & Java?)
# August 26, 2003 12:23 PM

James Avery said:

Very cool. I will have to check that out. Thanks!
# August 26, 2003 3:12 PM

Bill Booth said:

The price is almost too good. One of the few products we have found that does code synchronization and allows you to SQL Server as a repository.
# August 29, 2003 6:57 PM

Tor said:

Actually, Visio works quite well with UML as long as you use Pavel Hruby's free extension, available at http://www.phruby.com/stencildownload.html.
# September 9, 2003 5:16 PM

James Avery said:

Looks cool... I will have to try it out.

-James
# September 9, 2003 8:05 PM
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