A new alternative to Visio

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JAC

Hi, all.

I'm planning to write a fairly basic diagramming
application in C# with the .Net Framework.

The look & feel, etc. is to take after Microsoft Visio,
and the program will mimick many Visio features.

My questions are:

- Has this been done before?
- Has it been done as freeware/opensource? Where?
- Is anyone anywhere working on something similar?
- Any recommendations on where to start? What sort of
class hierarchy?

Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
JAC.
 
Do you know ArgoUml? It's a java - UML designer. It's not OpenSource, but it
would not be hard to decompile several .class Files ;-)
I hope you are an uml - expert! It would we good if you use the official
UML - Notations.
Do you plan to do it as freeware / opensource? If so, check sourcefog.com

GP
 
I'd use IBM Rational XDE.It's a heavy weight UML tool
though. It also costs some money;)

Sefa
 
Hi,

Take a look at XDE from Rational ( now IBM ), I'm using it right now and it
rocks!!!

Pd:
Very expensive, around 3K , lucky for my I work for the goverment :)
 
Thanks, Günter & Jon. :-)

I'll be checking it out.

By the way, I noticed a number of the files available for
download are listed as being modified by someone
called 'linus'. Interesting... ;-)

Regards,
JAC.
 
Very expensive, around 3K , lucky for my I work for the
goverment :)

....therefore you can likely see why I want to make a
free/opensource edition.


I may try it out sometime if I can save up enough money!
Even better if IBM offer a demo version...

Regards,
JAC.
 
Hi,

IBM offer a full trial version, I used it for a month before they approved
my request for the software.

Cheers,
 
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