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Hi,

What available UML modelling tools (any license , the freer the better :D)
support .NET? I found some currently have bad support for C# like not being
able to handle sealed classes and so on.. Some are half assed
implementations and patchy support for the language with bad
synchronisation. Also I dont want vendor tie in on the file formats, XML
preferably so I can hope around tools later on. VS.NET has a modelling tool
for XML schemas, does it have one for UML and code engineer (forward
/backward / synchronization)? Visio?


Fanks.
 
Rational (now owned by IBM) have a version of Rose that supports .NET,
called Rational Rose XDE Developer

www.rational.com

I have tried the 2002 version and was not overly impressed. Maybe the 2003
version is out now, with improvements.

HTH

Charles
 
Rational XDE in my opinion rocks ...

See my review of Rational XDE in the .NET Developers Journal at:

http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/article.cfm?id=400

It also hands down is better than any of the competition from Borland or
other UML tool vendors that I have seen ... who else generates an automatic
sequence diagram from a run of your software? which is awesome for debugging
purposes.
 
a few months ago I had a look at Enterprise Architect from
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/
Generating class diagrams from C# worked well as far as I could tell
.... seemed very robust
also a lot cheaper than Rational's products.

Regards,

Harvey Green
 
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