I'm tired of opening Dia and creating a database diagram at the beginning of every project. Is there a tool out there that will let me select specific tables and then create a database diagram for me based on a MySQL database? Preferably it would allow me to edit the diagram afterward since none of the foreign keys are set... Here is wh...
I've been tasked with redesigning part of a ms-sql database structure which currently involves a lot of views, some of which contain joins to other views. Anyway, I wonder if anyone here could recommend a utility to automatically generate diagrams to help me visualise the whole structure. What's the best program you've used for such p...
I'm trying to choose a tool for creating UML diagrams of all flavours. Usability is a major criteria for me, but I'd still take more power with a steeper learning curve and be happy. Free (as in beer) would be nice, but I'd be willing to pay if the tool's worth it. What should I be using? ...
What's the best way/tool to display nice diagrams with entity relationships in ASP MVC views? I.e. servers and and applications, or servers with other servers. Are there any third party tools out there that can do this? I've been searching around things like Telerik, but it's really hard to google for this! ...
Have you used VS.NET Architect Edition's Application and System diagrams to start designing a solution? If so, did you find it useful? Did the "automatic implementation" feature worked ok? ...
In college I've had numerous design and UML oriented courses, and I recognize that UML can be used to benefit a software project, especially use-case mapping, but is it really practical? I've done a few co-op work terms, and it appears that UML is not used heavily in the industry. Is it worth the time during a project to create UML dia...
I've taught a database design course for a few years now, starting off each time using the Crow's Foot diagram notation for our entity-relationship models. I can't believe anyone seriously uses the Chen notation (especially for attributes), and I don't find the IDEF1X relationship symbols intuitive at all, particularly for students new t...
Does anyone know of a good tool to quickly and easily create a diagram for a database schema? I don't need it to generate SQL to create the schema, I just want to diagram it. My current process involves drawing out the db schema by hand on paper, works great but there has got to be a better way? ...
Hi people, I would like to know if I can open 2 different diagrams using MS Visio and each diagram have its own window. I've tried in several ways, but I always end up with 1 Visio window ... I'm using a triple monitor setup and I'd like to put one diagram to each side of my main monitor. []'s André Casteliano PS: I'm using Visio 20...
For a long time I've been looking for a good diagramming/vector-based drawing program that meets my needs as a developer. I'd like to: Draw database diagrams Draw flow charts Draw object-modeling diagrams (UML being the standard) Draw other free-form diagrams (basically boxes & arrows with the occasional clipart) Draw mockups of user i...
Basically we need a custom diagram component in our new WPF based application. Needs to show text/lines, linked 2D Nodes and custom images apart from the other diagramming features like Undo/Redo, Align, Group, etc.. ala Visio. The initial team did a bit of investigation and settled on the WinForms Northwoods GoDiagrams suite... a solut...
I find myself to be a visual person and sometimes it's easier to learn something if I can draw diagram/pictures out of it. My question is which tool do I use if I want to map a programming framework (for example .net) visually and see the relationship between all entities (such as classes and members) ...
Which tool do you use to draw simple diagrams/pictures to illustrate a technical point in a document? ...
Are there eclipse plugins that you can recommend for generating diagrams (UML, sequence) from Java code? ...
Google's not coming to my rescue, here, and I just know this is the perfect place to ask. I'm writing a custom DirectiveProcessor for a DSL and I want to be able to access a diagram from within my T4 template. Within my DirectiveProcessor, I've loaded the domain model and my diagram using (wait for it...) LoadModelAndDiagram(...). So,...
Any good tool to generate dependency diagram? Input: any simple format (not always source code) to describe dependency relation of several items. E.g. A depends on B, C; C depends on D, E ... Output: nicely organized dependency diagram. ...
OK, so things have progressed significantly with my DSL since I asked this question a few days ago. As soon as I've refactored my code, I'll post my own answer to that one, but for now, I'm having another problem. I'm dynamically generating sub-diagrams from a DSL-created model, saving those diagrams as images and then generating a Wor...
I've recently inherited the job of maintaining a database that wasn't designed very well and the designers aren't available to ask any questions. And I have a couple more coming my way in the near future. It's been tough trying to figure out the relationships between the tables without any kind of visual aid or database diagram. I wa...
I've used WWW SQL Designer several times to design databases for applications. I'm now in charge of working on an application with a lot of tables (100+ mysql tables) and I would love to be able to look at the relations between tables in a manner similar to what WWW SQL Designer provides. It seems that it comes with the provisions to hoo...
Does anyone know a good tool for drawing SCM codeline diagrams? Currently we tend to do this using anything at hand e.g. PowerPoint, Visio, Paint Shop Pro, etc. It's a pity Visio doesn't include a standard stencil for this type of diagram. We use Perforce which includes tools for producing branching diagrams, but really suited to single...