MDG Integration for Visual Studio dead?

[Thomas Jaeger]

I just purchased EA a few days ago and needed to integrate with Visual Studio 2012 Premium and to my surprise, EA does NOT appear to support Visual Studio 2012? What gives?

Visual Studio 2012 has been out for a very long time. Is Sparx no longer supporting Visual Studio? Please tell me that this isn't so.

The current link to MDG Integration for Visual Studio here at http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/mdg/int/vs/index.html
 does not mention anything about VS 2012?

Super frustrating!!!

[Aaron B]

Hello Thomas,

Visual Studio 2012 is not currently supported by MDG Integration.

We are currently investigating addition of support for Visual Studio 2012.  No word just yet regarding when VS2012 integration may be available though.

[Thomas Jaeger]

Hello Aaron,

Thank you for replying. It's a real bummer to see that Visual Studio is no longer supported. I would have guessed that the Visual Studio market would be big enough to provide revenue for Sparx.

Can I make a recommendation? Since you are charging extra in order to get MDG integration for the older Visual Studio editions, why not include this feature into EA directly? It would provide value to the EA product as a whole and it could offset the VS 2012 support?

Thank you,
Thomas Jaeger

[JayBeeToo]

Last year I asked the same question and got the same answer.

Apparently Sparx is not going to support VS 2012

[Thomas Jaeger]

This is super frustrating since I just purchased EA and I'm now reconsidering it.

I'm the lead architect on two big projects with a major airline here in the US and was about to recommend EA as one of the tools. I'm reconsidering my recommendation based on the lack of support for Visual Studio. I would say that Visual Studio and Ecplise would cover the majority of development IDE's (besides Delphi and a few others). Now that Sparx Systems is not supporting Visual Studio anymore, I'm getting serious doubts if Sparx Systems will even stay in business much longer.

I guess I have to look for alternatives and for my money back.

[Josef Stadelmann]

I was so happy to get all my sequence diagrams and a lot of my other documentation done using the interaction between VS 2008 and EA. This 2 years ago. Rouind Trip Engineering was a reality for me. Since we upgraded to VS 2010 and in May to the lates greates EA. And all is  there again .. except it did not work any longer of how it did in the past.

In this context it does not make a lot sense to ask Sparx for new features like "can you support Oxygene from RemSoft"? Oxygene from RemSoft, the follow up of Delphi as I understood it, has a strong integration into and with Visual Studio 2012.

We are evaluating Oxygene as we have to migrate away from OpenVMS and PASCAL to a Windows or Linux platform because HP left us in the croud as well. Now we are about to study how we best migrate from a 3GL larger OpenVMS PASCAL apps to a new Platform and a OO apps where modelling becomes a taff issue. Sparx EA our prim tool as it is integrated with VS. bäääää

If EA does no longer integrat with VS, this is a desaster for us.

Question then: which alternative IDE will Sparx integrate? Or does SParx think that EA itself is an IDE and will do all the development/debugging work soon? Or can Sparx at least recomend readings on how to best work with two no longer integrated tools, EA and any-IDE'` even better: how to integrate an IDE into with EA and let us do the job Spary or MDG no longer willing tor able to do?

Without that: I consider HP leaves us in the crouwd, as well as Sparx does now! unpleasnt but true.

Josef
 

[PepperPot]

Just to add my two cents.  

This is blocking me from upgrading to one of the Extended suites. If VS 2012 isn't supported, is it fanciful to hope VS 2013 will be supported?

[KP]

Support for VS2012 just announced: http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1379307140

[SomersetGraham]

HOORAH!!!!

[SomersetGraham]

Looks like I spoke too sooon!!
Just installed the addin but EA does not appear in VS 2012.

Has anyone else attempted this yet?

Thanks

[Eve]

Check where VS is loading it's plugins from (Tools | Options | Environment | Add-in Security) and that integration was installed to one of the locations in that dialog.

You should find 'Attach UML Model' in the Project menu.

[SomersetGraham]

Ah Thanks Simon
Installed to the wrong location
DOH!

[PepperPot]

Splendid,

I'll give it a whirl.  

Thank you.