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Suggestions and Requests / EA Add-On To VS.NET

« on: October 01, 2003, 06:22:11 pm »

Rational XDE for .NET is very a good tool, and it's also uses
VS.NET extensibility feature and installs directly into VS.NET
becoming part of it, but it costs $3,600 - $5,100.
Now, can you imagine how many VS.NET developers will be happy to get "VA.NET" if "add-on" version becomes avialable
with current feature set and current VA price?
Ans it is not so difficult to create an add-on for Visual Studio.NET if you already have existing code base, I created
few toys myself

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General Board / Reverse Engineering-strange behavior?

« on: November 18, 2003, 02:28:22 pm »

 
I don’t know if this is me setting something wrong, or it’s the way EA works
Let’s say I have created 2 classes, after I create an aggregate(or any) association between them and give one of the ends a name. I generate the code- looks OK, one of my classes
has the member variable of the other class named with the end name I gave to the association end, Then I reverse engineer, Now the class which has a member variable
of the other class type has both:  and Association and the Attribute? Shouldn’t it be one
or another?, Any tool I ever used never displayed both, some like(XDE) will give you
the option to convert association link into attribute or vise versa, some not, but they don’t display both of them, and I don’t recall that the UML specs set for this way?
Even worse, If I convert the association into  aggregation and then reverse engineer
from generated file now I have 2 links aggregation, new association and attribute for
1 member variable
And the funniest thing is that in the code it’s always one declaration regardless that the
diagram shows 2(association and attribute)
Could someone Please clarify this for me, is there a setting to set or something else or it’s
just a bug
Thank you

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General Board / Re: EA 3.6 Build 6.44 is crushing

« on: October 02, 2003, 01:14:25 pm »

Yes it is a Code Generation Bar, I took it out following the advise by Geoffrey, and it's not giving me a problem since then.
Also I think that the problem only comes up on XP or 2003
(new GDI lib), because I have tried on 2000 before and it was ok.
Any way it's not a big problem to have that bar closed until the fix is available (probably Monday?)
One think I want to point out, the speed and the quality of service I’ve got after I submit this bug to Sparks was just perfect, better that perfect
Thank you for a good service!

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General Board / Re: EA 3.6 Build 6.44 is crushing

« on: September 30, 2003, 01:16:22 pm »

No, but the 3.51 works fine on win 2003!
I also tried the 3.6 on 2000 and it works fine also
There is definitely an issue with win. 2003 and EA 3.6
I wonder if anyone from Sparx monitors this forum.
I hope they can clear this one for me, because it's a sure bug
I reinstalled it twice with no luck
By the way did you try with the same diagram that I refer?
Because it seems that it's not happening with all the diagrams.

Thanks for trying!
Arman

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General Board / EA 3.6 Build 6.44 is crushing

« on: September 27, 2003, 07:58:32 am »

I just downloaded a new version of EA(EA 3.6 Build 6.44 ), and for the first time EA is crashing on me without any warnings, it never happened before,
I use Windows Server 2003, but 3.51 worked fine on that OS before.
When browsing a sample diagram (for example, the very first
use case sample named “Use Case Model: - Displaying actor and use case generalization include and extend relationships”) and right clicking on any of the use cases(for example "Send SMS")the context menu comes up, then
if I try to close that context menu by clicking anywhere on the diagram: EA crash without any warning or error message or any entry in the Application error log, it's just disappears!?
Could please someone try to reproduce this behavior  on different OS?