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General Board / .NET Framework libary
« on: June 25, 2004, 01:31:01 am »
Hi,
we are currently evaluating Enterprise Architect and would be happy to know if there is a library available which contains the .NET Framework Classes.
This would be very helpful when working with inherited Form, controls or Typed DataSets for example, because if you want to create a Form in EA (for example the "MainForm" of an application) this would be inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Form in reality and therefore your form "MainForm" would already have the "ShowDialog" operation (inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Form)
If the .NET Framwork Classes could be imported into the model it would be easy to use the class MainForm in a sequenze diagram which shows the call of "ShowDialog" on this "MainForm".
So, has anyone an idea how we can get the .NET Framework Classes into a model ?
Perhaps it would be an idea to load the needed informations from the .NET Framework assemblies directly (through the .NET reflection API) and create the classes in EA through automation...?
Could anyone tell me where we can find documentation regarding the automation api / features of EA and if this would be a possible solution
Perhaps there is a .NET Framework Class Library for Rational Rose or another CASE Tool which could be converted or used with EA
Thanks,
Stephan
BTW: Great product, no comparison to other case tools we've tested
we are currently evaluating Enterprise Architect and would be happy to know if there is a library available which contains the .NET Framework Classes.
This would be very helpful when working with inherited Form, controls or Typed DataSets for example, because if you want to create a Form in EA (for example the "MainForm" of an application) this would be inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Form in reality and therefore your form "MainForm" would already have the "ShowDialog" operation (inherited from System.Windows.Forms.Form)
If the .NET Framwork Classes could be imported into the model it would be easy to use the class MainForm in a sequenze diagram which shows the call of "ShowDialog" on this "MainForm".
So, has anyone an idea how we can get the .NET Framework Classes into a model ?
Perhaps it would be an idea to load the needed informations from the .NET Framework assemblies directly (through the .NET reflection API) and create the classes in EA through automation...?
Could anyone tell me where we can find documentation regarding the automation api / features of EA and if this would be a possible solution
Perhaps there is a .NET Framework Class Library for Rational Rose or another CASE Tool which could be converted or used with EA
Thanks,
Stephan
BTW: Great product, no comparison to other case tools we've tested