Professional UML Modelling Using VS.NET

The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects provides a formidable tool.

Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out databases with Entity Relationship diagrams, and aiding the development of distributed systems.

Its integration with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect means that C# or Visual Basic .NET code can be generated from the UML diagrams, and Visual Studio .NET projects can be reverse engineered to UML models.This book presumes that the reader is already familiar with the basic concepts of UML notation - it does not teach UML, instead, it take's the reader into the Visio environment, showing how to make the most of its software related features.The topics covered in this book include: diagramming business components in Vision; generating code from a UML model; reverse engineering Visual Studio .NET projects into a UML model; reverse engineering into a UML model without source code; documenting the project with UML and Visio; designing distributed applications with Visio's diagrams; and entity Relationship database modeling, and round-trip engineering for database design.