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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Feature comparison

« on: April 16, 2008, 08:32:56 pm »

I second the UML suggestions on this post.  Lack of features here is something we have to "overcome" with customers to get EA into the client.  Also, having Use Case steps called out in some structured manner would allow for all kinds of reporting, code and test generation, etc.  As a chunk of text it is just that.

The text formatting helped, but structure Use Case information would be the ideal.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Import DDL schema from ODBC (Oracle 8.1.7)

« on: April 19, 2005, 04:06:23 am »

I just did some reverse engineering from an Oracle 8.1.7 database and experienced the same problem.  I had to accept the dialog box repeated upon reverse engineering.  EA seemed to reverse engineer the tables OK if I was patient enough to hit the OK button repeatedly.  I have not identified what was missing.

I would be nice to remove this dialog and replace it with something more descriptive and something that an action could be taken against.

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Suggestions and Requests / Feature Request: View Multiple Diagrams

« on: February 10, 2005, 08:31:57 am »

I'd like to be able to view two diagrams at once and drag and drop between them.

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Suggestions and Requests / Feature Request: Expand Diagram to Full Screen

« on: February 10, 2005, 08:30:36 am »

I'd like a hot key driven to Expand the diagram pane to take up the full screen and have that same hot key toggle it back to it's rightful size.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Edit properties of multiple elements.

« on: February 03, 2005, 04:55:43 am »

Just adding my vote here - multiple common property setting would be fantastic - jlo

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Adding RSS Feed to Web Site

« on: August 20, 2004, 04:20:44 am »

One more vote for an RSS feed!

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General Board / Re: Reporting a single tag value

« on: December 11, 2014, 05:38:44 am »

This does not seem to work with attributes ... I'm trying to get either the 'property' tag or the 'AutoNum', 'StartNum' and 'Increment' values from a column in a table.

The default table template has:

tagged value>
 Properties:
    {FeatTagVal.Name} = FetaTagVal.Value}
< tagged value

I removed this tag so I was within the <attribute tag.  The valueOf field is offered, but when I put it in I get:

{Att.valueOf(property)}


and it does not print

Am I missing something?  Thanks for your reply.

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General Board / Reporting a single tag value

« on: November 27, 2014, 09:56:52 am »

You can report the set of tags associated with an element in the report templating engine using:

tagged value >
{FeatTagVal.Name} = {FeatTagVal.Value}
<tagged value

Is there a way to print an individual tag value rather than the entire list?

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General Board / Reverse Engineering of C# Auto-Properties

« on: May 07, 2012, 11:53:56 pm »

I am working with Sparx tech support to try and get C# Auto-Implemented Properties to reverse engineer into associations when the return value is a class or collection of a class.  

Current, reverse engineering creates an operation (from a UML perspective) which is fine, and marks is with a stereotype of <property>.  What it does not do is create the association to the other class.  I've seen this question in the forum a couple times with no responses from either Sparx of the community.

From my email with support:


Since C# 3.0 (August 2007) the C# language has supported Auto-Implemented Properties.  

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384054.aspx

These properties that do not need a backing field defined for brevity in the language.  They are in widespread use - most code quality tools will flag your code if you have code where the property only gets and sets the field:

No:

        private List<Class6> _class6ListProp;

        public List<Class6> Class6ListProp
        {
            get { return _class6ListProp; }
            set { _class6ListProp = value; }
        }

Yes:

        public List<Class6> Class6ListProp { get; set; }

Properties that return another class, or collection of another class, need to reverse engineer a association for C#.  Without this reverse engineering, the reverse engineering of properties is not usable with C# without a lot of manual work.

In the mean time - has anyone come up with a workaround or solution that doesn't involve updating all the models manually?

TIA - Jeff Odell

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General Board / Re: Code Engineering support for .Net 3.x?

« on: April 16, 2008, 08:21:01 pm »

I submitted a bug around reverse engineering C# 3.0 constructs.  I received the following:

We do not currently support the C# 3.0 language extensions including partial methods.

I have registered this as a feature request on your behalf.

I've replied asking this be prioritized as this makes class modeling and the VS Integration pretty useless on my next two projects.

If you need this feature please put in a prioity request to see if we can get it moving.

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General Board / Re: Is EA really scalable?

« on: May 09, 2008, 09:30:04 pm »

Assuming you have read through:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/downloads/whitepapers/EA_Deployment.pdf

Depending on your user base and their familiarity with source code control, this might be a good candidate for a source code control approach.

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General Board / Re: Support for which language versions?

« on: April 16, 2008, 08:29:03 pm »

I was just informed that EA is not supporting C# 3.0 at this time.  This is a problem for us in using class designer and MDG integration.

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General Board / Re: Generics

« on: April 16, 2008, 08:22:25 pm »

Hi Martin -

Did you make any progress in resolving this issue?

I submitted a bug around reverse engineering C# 3.0 constructs.  I received the following:

We do not currently support the C# 3.0 language extensions including partial methods.

 

I have registered this as a feature request on your behalf.

I've replied asking this be prioritized as this makes class modeling and the VS Integration pretty useless on my next two projects.

If you need this feature please put in a prioity request to see if we can get it moving.

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General Board / Re: EA 7.0 MDG 3.0 Errors- Wait to upgrade

« on: July 16, 2007, 10:24:06 am »

I experienced exactly the same issue on my SQL Server repository.  Thank you for the alert - jlo

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General Board / Re: Bug:Maintenance Editor Reported/Resolved By Fi

« on: January 05, 2007, 10:40:12 am »

Yes - thanks for catching that - I've corrected the original post.

jlo