For a class I am in, I need to create an ERD in Visio, using Crow's Foot notation. This is all fine, and works well enough. However, now I need also model a supertype (and eventually a subtype). This functionality, if it exists in Visio 2013, seems hidden. Has anyone been able to do this? My friend Google was not very helpful, as every tutorial for this seems to be in Visio 2010.
This feature was discontinued in the 2013 version, unfortunately. Visio 2010 is the only one that has it.
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We have generated UML diagram programmatically in java and it works fine with visio 2003 and 2010. But when we try to open the same file on visio 2013, we see below error.
This UML Model Diagram was created with a feature that is not supported in this version of Visio
If we do save as of same file from visio 2010 and open it in visio 2013, we dont see any issue. When I tried to compare the XML content of both, original and saved as version, there are some differences but I couldnt find the root cause of the issue.
Plesae suggest on how to proceed with this debugging. Any help in identifying the root cause and fix would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
This is a general question about the topic. I ran across a post which gave VB script code for version control. I've been developing with Access for a while, but have learned entirely on my own and can be pretty ignorant of the the broader IT world. I got
the code to work for me, but I'm lost on how to put it to work as a system.
To give some context, I have an example situation that maybe this kind of thing could solve. I'm now working on two versions at once (1.2 and 1.3) because the first version we'd like to release has to be tested where it's to be used in China. They were out of the office for a week due to the Chinese new year, in the meantime, I'm working on 1.3. Now, any changes I have to make to 1.2 of course have to go into 1.3. Actually, it's worse than that because clarity over the fact that we'd have to do this in two separate releases didn't emerge until work had been done which in hindsight went further than we could incorporate in 1.2.
The code in the post basically dumps all of the info about forms, reports, VBA, and macros into a bunch of text files (for some reason not tables, and maybe that has something to do with the fact that I'm working with Access 2010 rather than whatever version this code was created for.) Apparently, it can then reconstruct an application from those same text files.
What do I need to understand about source code control to make such a thing work for me? I recognize that might not be something you'd want to explain in a post, but can you point me in the right direction information-wise?
While this question is 3 years old, it might be of interest to some to have an answer anyway.
AFAIK, accesssvn.codeplex.com -cited by #Robby Shaw - is not working and not maintained.
Today I see 2 products usable products for VCS inegration:
one is https://github.com/timabell/msaccess-vcs-integration which is quite active
the other one is Microsoft Access 2010 Source Code Control for which I don't know if it works with more recent versions of Access
Apart from VCS, you could also use a database compare tool like Microsoft's Database Compare 2013
Also worth considering, Accdbmerge, a tool to merge 2 databases.
Visual Studio 2010 has this feature called Directed Graph Documents (files with a dgml extension). It can be used to show relationships between objects similar to UML. I was able to play with it during the VS2010 beta. The version I now have (VS2010 pro) doesn't have this functionality and I don't have access to the Ultimate or Architect versions.
Is there a similar XML based directed graph technology you can recommend?
Five months without an answer, so I guess the answer as of now is...
No, there are no tools other than Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate or Architect that can work with Directed Graph Documents. VS2010 Premium can read dgml documents, but not edit them.
Without going into why I need OLE.. I need to embed a managed C++ custom control into MS Word 2007 (2003 also would be nice).
So the question is How do I make this managed (.net 3.5) control OLE compliant ?
It seems that I need to do something akin to implementing an interface. But an up-to-date tutorial is something that is proving difficult to find.
I've read the wikipedia article on OLE. All the information that I could google out is ancient (1994) and/or VB centric (4.0-6.0). Anything that makes sense to current times... links/books please post.
Thanks for reading..
Andrew Whitechapel writes about managed controls as ActiveX controls in Office documents. You can read his article here: http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2008/11/24/using-managed-controls-as-activex-controls.aspx.
Update: See also this related question.
I am stuck at properly aligning the generalization arrow between the classes. I could not make them appear as in the UML books.
Visio UML stencils are not very good and is very frustrating to work with them. Have a look at http://softwarestencils.com/uml/index.html, there are some very nice, free stencil updates for Visio UML 2.0. It takes very little time to get used to them. After I used them I never looked back.
UML Model Diagrams - Visio - Microsoft Office Online
One note. If you want UML diagramm looks like classic book examples you should use Rational Rose instead of Visio.