Agreed, Visio is great for flowcharts and such, but pretty sucky for object modelling. I've found Enterprise Architect (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/) to be great for UML diagrams. Mind you, I've only used the trial version till it expired (company did not want to pay the couple hundred bucks to purchase it, but that is another story). And it's an Australian company to boot. I don't have any connection to them, I just think it is a great product.
Steve. -----Original Message----- From: "Tom Gao" [[email protected]] Date: 08/06/2010 07:36 AM To: "'ozDotNet'" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Visual Studio 2010 architecture and uml modeling unfortunately I thought Visio is not as good as the logical datacentre designer you can’t use it to validate your application architecture. Would have been nice if Microsoft had both or provided the logical datacentre designer as an add on option From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Kean Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 2:46 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Visual Studio 2010 architecture and uml modeling It was removed from the product. I’d suggest trying Visio as a replacement. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Gao Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 6:08 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Visual Studio 2010 architecture and uml modeling Hi, In Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 architecture edition there was the ability to draw architecture diagrams and represent IIS and database servers using Logical Datacenter diagrams. Does anyone know how to achieve this in visual studio 2010? Seems the adoption of UML 2.x designer meant dropping the logical server representations ? Cheers, Tom
