MDG Link vs. MDG Integration

[ToniT]

Is there any documentation comparing MDG Link with MDG Integration for Visual Studio .NET?

[RoyC]

Not a point-by-point comparison, no. However, you can read the following product descriptions to see the differences.

http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/mdg/link/vs/index.html
http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/mdg/int/vs/index.html

[ToniT]

Went through that...
I was wondering:
1. What are the features that MDG Integration brings on top of MDG Link?
2. Can they function independently?
3. Is round trip engineering integrated into VS a MDG Link only feature?
4. Is any MDG Link version compatible with both VS 2005 and VS 2008?
5. As MDG Link was last release in 2006, is it going to be deprecated?
Further, what is the intention for each product?

I would appreciate a response rather than a link to a faily general data sheet

Thanks.  

[Eve]

My summary of the difference...

MDG Link allows EA to import and synchronize with Visual Studio projects.  MDG Integration does that, and allows you to work with EA from inside Visual Studio.

A beta for both products was released in July (and I thought updated recently but I don't see an announcement for that.)

[RoyC]

Both products are compatible with VS 2005 and VS 2008.

For any more-detailed discussion of the products, I suggest you contact Sparx Support or Sparx Marketing ([email protected] and [email protected]). This is a user forum, and the participation of Sparx employees in forum discussions is casual. We cannot guarantee to give full responses, or indeed any response at all, on the forum. The official channels do respond as completely and as quickly as they are able.