Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET

To many, Visio for Enterprise Architects appears to be a mysterious diagramming tool. In conjunction with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect it potential seems clear – going from design to code, and back from code to design offers the developer tremendous benefits for rapidly developing applications. Why do we say ‘mysterious’? This is because Visio’s range of features can daunt the user, but most importantly, many aspects of its use directly relevant to software developers are frustratingly lacking in explanation.

This book aims to address this problem – here we focus exclusively on Visio’s features for developing .NET applications, encompassing:

• UML diagrams

• Generating code from UML diagrams

• Reverse engineering source code into UML diagrams

• Database modeling

Along the way, we’ll see some more general applications of Visio to the software development lifecycle, and also learn about Visio’s idiosyncrasies, which almost every user of Visio will have encountered, and wondered “Is it just me?”

In other words, this book will allow you to finally unmask Visio for Enterprise Architects.