visio for enterprise architects

[Barb Way]

According to the PPT file (see my previous note about the compatibility
pack, if you haven't already), there is no Visio for Enterprise Architects
version available for VS 2008.

The current version is bundled with VS2005 Team editions (Team Architect,
Team Developer, Team Tester) only. The UML solution allows you to
visualize using UML 1.2 level notation, so that you can import from a
project and map out your Classes, etc. I do not have any experience as a
software modeler, but the solution does not have any 'animations' that I am
aware of. You can review the MSDN topic on using UML with VEA here :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302171.aspx

Barb Way
Product Support - Visio
Microsoft Corporation
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[J SPark]

I too, have been surprised by the dropping of the DDL generation, error
checking, and schema synchronization functionality.

As I have experienced, Visio 2002 Enterprise Architect is not compatible
with SQL Server 2005. I upgraded to Visio 2007 Professional, only to be
disappointed and surprised that this central functionality has been
inexplicably dropped.

It was difficult for me to find out, but searching the internet it seems
that Visio for Enterprise Architects in the current MSDN subscription
supports this crucial feature.

Would this version of Visio support SQL Server 2008?

There are few lower cost alternatives these days, and it is hard to find a
DB tool that integrates smoothly w/ the latest editions of MS SQL server.
Thus there is more pressure to go the route of DBDesigner 4/MySQL when
starting projects with complex database needs. Which is unfortunate, since
Microsoft SQL Server is a great product series. (It's an MS product that I
actually praise, among my open source LAMP developer colleagues.)

MS Sql Server, IMO, is in fact a central foundation of data centric
development using MS technologies. There should be some guidance, somewhere,
as to how to continue to design complex databases for MS Sql Server into the
future. Directing us to rely on the Database Diagram feature of SQL Server
is not a good fit, because of the need to prototype, print out, share vsd's,
and to visually think out different changes to existing DB's, and then to
create the DDL to migrate synchronization scripts on production servers.
Visio has also been an appropriate tool for DB architecture because of good
print features, and the ability to add annotations and other shapes.

 

[carlm]

I found this posting while doing a search on VEA and downloaded the document
referenced by the link. However, I have not been able to open it with
Powerpoint 2003 or PPT Viewer 2007. Has anyone else had success in opening
it? If so, what version of PPT did you use?

 

[Paul Herber]

I found this posting while doing a search on VEA and downloaded the document
referenced by the link. However, I have not been able to open it with
Powerpoint 2003 or PPT Viewer 2007. Has anyone else had success in opening
it? If so, what version of PPT did you use?

You're right, can't open it from here.

 

[Al Edlund]

I checked it out and it opened fine on my system (o2007).
al

 

[Barb Way]

We've notified the content owners about this, as we've had a couple of
reports so far. Hopefully a corrected version will be uploaded soon.
In the meantime, if you have PPT2007 version available to open it, it
should be okay when saved back to PPT 2003 format.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Barb Way
Product Support - Visio
Microsoft Corporation
[This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.]
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From: "Al Edlund" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: visio for enterprise architects
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 17:07:35 -0500
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I checked it out and it opened fine on my system (o2007).
al