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General Board / EA 11 Beta 1

« on: February 05, 2014, 03:50:24 pm »

Hello, it has been a long time since I have used EA... so I'm guessing that I'm really rusty.

I am completely unable to fathom how I connect EA to Visual Studio 2013.  I cant find the help topic, the MDG technology... I'm at a loss ;-)

I'm thinking this is a documentation / Help topic issue... but I cant find any reference to how to use cloud repositories, can I use Azure SQL?

Is the documentation not in sync with the software.

On the other hand really pleased to see that the beta is being released in a trial edition and not just to registered users.  So its not all bad.

Thank you,
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Visual Studio 2012

« on: August 04, 2012, 04:39:53 pm »

Hi

In under two weeks, Visual Studio 2012 will be available ( August 15th )for download.

I'm wonder when EA will be able to integrate with the VS 2012 IDE?

Can / will EA interact with the online TFS service?

And finally will EA be able to cope with the new Async mechanisms and C++ language features?

Thank you,
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Touch friendliness

« on: February 09, 2013, 09:09:18 am »

I've been given a large touch panel, an ancient dell server with the promise of a Surface Pro UK Launch.

Sparx EA interface doesn't work so well when the panel is mounted horizontally... more monopoly around grandmas table than desk dude gorilla downer.

Anyone come across more touch friendly UML app, even just for a single user.

Ta in advance, have fun
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / javascript typescript f# language parsing

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:18:23 am »

Hi' ya

I've probably been too clever for my own good.

I've found an evaluation candidate, however they are heavily invested in Microsoft language technologies.  We are constructing Roslyn based transformation sets.

Anyone found an easy way to handle 15 - 25 concurrent young learners. As they submit changes to their source programs, we want to reflect these changes back to them as UML World Animations.  Lego automations competing with Nao, to accomplish everyday tasks.

I'm using latest Build....  pity it doesn't follow Office lead with touch enablent, some of us do have touch desktops and tables.

Happy new year
Kevin  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Re: Legacy Passions - Happy Xmas 2012

« on: December 13, 2012, 03:02:26 am »

Hi Dermot, thank you for pointing that up.... and now that Sparx's has released v10 I will be able to play with it myself ;-)

I'm the proud owner of a large multitouch monitor, and hope to ditch the keyboard and mouse by the new year ( IBM RSA and Altovia UModeL are not very touch friendly .... Nor is Visual Studio for that matter ).

Regards,
Kevin

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General Board / Re: Legacy Passions - Happy Xmas 2012

« on: December 12, 2012, 09:55:46 am »

Hi again, guessing you've not talking about the RC either?

Ok, I'll try n get the brains around here to knock up an EA Automation app for any winPhone users out there...

Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Legacy Passions - Happy Xmas 2012

« on: December 06, 2012, 08:25:01 am »

Hi'ya,

I was wondering what the user experience was like for the desktop bound test and review professionals.  You're only letting registered folks get the new love.

Sparx in the Windows Store... Not the graveyard posting of the Visual Studio desktop-bound fanatics and ribbon interface haters.

Anyone had any luck using MS TouchDevelop scripting with the automation model?

How does EA support mobile devices?  Can the WinPhone app just post the movie of that user requirement session to the use case narrative library.


Is there any noticeable improvement to Siri search requests?  "what's this?", touch point help announcement chatter-bots.

Bet it's not even a little RT friendly.

Any delights? Or terrible RC woes and terrors?

Regards, Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Re: EA and Team Foundation service

« on: October 16, 2012, 03:35:31 am »

Well qwerty I guess that's one answer, through I'm thinking that ya tagname is something of a hint, knock ya'self out ;-)

Sorry Geert, you are the maker of that navigation aid for lost modellers... I should stop posting when I head a joint but then ya all makes so much more sense.

Me and Grandma tried to use EA using our Samsung //Build kit but that didn't work out... Even when we tried using the traditional desktop... Gran likes to read manuals and it took her till afternoon tea before she located he relevant help topics.  My gran is a test bed subject, my Dad is another, Daniel and  Sophie are standins ( I'm gay so don't have children of my own, my only regret in life.... ).... My mum and two sister just watch n wonder, giggle and natter.

EA is not very Microsoft friendly... And just unusable by Apple Mac and iOS users.

Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Re: EA and Team Foundation service

« on: October 14, 2012, 07:09:00 am »

I've always thought of GitHub as an apple thing and avoided.  There's irony it that.

Sunday afternoon, I'll test it with gran.... @Geert, does your Navigator thing provide diagrams for areas of the model that neither author or reader have yet visited?  If you is in fact another Geert altogether, then thank you, a little auto drawing could be useful don't you think?

Have a nice weekend,
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Re: EA and Team Foundation service

« on: October 11, 2012, 10:57:00 pm »

Hi Greet,

Take a peek over at http://tfspreview.com, the online / public cloud hosted Team Foundation Service.  This is currently only available as a free preview, but will have paid subscription offerings shortly.  Microsoft has been pushing the notion of TFS as a service since /Build last year.

It provides work and bug tracking, source control, remote build, test management (the tests are run locally however).  By connecting you're Azure website to the TFS project you able to publish source modifications, MS is calling this 'Continious Build'.  All the stuff you get with Team Foundation Server, minus the reporting and sharepoint facilities.  Within Visual Studio you use Team Explorer to connect to the hosted service the same as on the on premises server or TFS Express.  I haven't used but there's a plug in for Eclipse, even Xcode and GIT get some connection loving.

The hosted version allows Microsoft to offer updates and enhancements more frequently and removes a significant infrastructure burden on users.  I am quite a fan of this service, and recommend that you have a look at it.  Microsoft has said that they will be offering a free version when the preview is over.

I'm probably highlighting my ignorance of the current EA, as I haven't had an opportunity to use EA for a couple years.  I'm assuming a user can establish a connection with an on-premises Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server from within the EA application or via the VS MDG integration addin.  ( your comment referencing TFS 2008 implies I'm correct in that respect ).  I can't really see any difference between a local server and remote, in either case we communicating over a http link.  

I expect we'll have to wait until Sparx release a new build before we can inter-operate with VS2012.   I do not have enough experience of EA and TFS to judge regard EA moving to TFS 2010 to 2012.  I imagine moving from one version of TFS to another is less problematic for EA than moving from VS 2010 IDE to 2012.

Perhaps it's time to think about evaluating EA again ;-)
Kevin  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / EA and Team Foundation service

« on: October 10, 2012, 01:37:57 am »

Hi..

Has anyone tried to connect EA to the online preview of TFS?

I haven't had a chance to try this myself, my instinct is that the answer is probably a qualified yes.  I'm asking in response to a client enquiry...

Thank you in advance, regards
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Re: EA and Azure SQL

« on: October 10, 2012, 11:57:26 pm »

Hi

Thank you, that's what I needed to know, the head up and script are welcome bonus.

That's going to make me look really good and clever, brilliant ;-)

Have a good week yeah,
Regards
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / EA and Azure SQL

« on: October 10, 2012, 01:48:27 am »

Hello again ;-)

Can the model repository installed and run from an SQL Azure database?  I'm assuming that there is no problem with using an SQL instance running in a virtual machine...

I'm sorry if I'm seem to be posting a lot today.... Same client enquiry I'm trying to answer...

Thank you, regards
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Re: Reverse Engineering

« on: October 10, 2012, 11:02:26 am »

Does that really make sense to you?  What your doing I mean.

I think you really ought to look into a better source control activity than manual labour like that.

Try Microsoft Team Foundation online Service, TFS 2012 introduces local work stores as default.  Check the stuff out, do your magic, check the stuff in, comment and local Wipe.

How often have you not moved everything and oops!!!

... And you model too yeah, regards :exclamation
Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

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General Board / Use of Roslyn to manipulate EA Generated stuff

« on: May 09, 2012, 06:17:09 am »

Hello, have you used visual studio, EA and Rosyln insights.

Wondering if Rosyln has helped any of you folks.  I would have thought that an intelligent post build would have much application.

Some class and object properties are instructions to the runtime.

Has anyone discovered a drag, drop and connect for Sparx EA or IBM RSA... rather than tapping away at the keyboard.

Kevin [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]