I'm about to create a new application - somewhat like a CRM. I'm thinking it would be best to diagram out all the tables/fields before I begin...but not sure what is the best way to do so? Are there tools in VS? MSSMS? Something else? I want to quickly and thoroughly create the database the application will use for its back-end. ...
This question came up today and I couldn't find any historical answer as to why a database is always represented as a cylinder. I am hoping someone in the stack world would know why and have a link or something backing it up. ...
Hi All, I am currently using Visio to draw the layout of our server systems for future developers to grok. We program on Open Source tools like ruby and Ubuntu, and using Visio is rubbing me the wrong way. Are there any good open source alternatives for making pretty charts to explain hwow are servers are laid out? ...
Hi :) I have a part of my program which can be called by various events. Each event however does something different before making use of this part. How can I represent these using a diagram? I was thinking of a flowchart but as far as I know a flow chart can have one start terminal, right? Thanks a lot for the help, Regards, Krt_Malta...
Hello, using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate I created a class diagram of a C# / WPF project. The project is well documented, meaning ever property has a xml summary. Now in the class diagram one can hover over a property and read this summary - fine. But what about printing? Visual Studio just prints the diagram! Is there any way to let Vi...
It's essential for me to find a tool that will reverse engineer sequence diagrams by integrating with the debugger. I suppose using the profiler could work also but less desirable. It's a key requirement that the tool in question will record all threads of execution since the app, TickZoom, is heavily parallelized. We just evaluated a m...
in chen's notation partial keys (discriminator) were shown as dashed lines, how are they shown in uml er (entity-relationship) diagram? ...
Hi, I want to make a diagram with either flash CS4 or flex builder 3, don't know with one would be the best for the job. More about the task: I want to send in values external to the swf file. The swf-file takes the vaules and makes a diagram of it using x and y values. Any advise or tips of where i can make this is much appreciated!...
I am considering solutions for drawing diagrams using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Up until now I have found only the gwt-diagrams project but it seems abandoned. Are there any suggestions about diagramming with GWT? ...
UML provides us with many different kinds of diagrams. but in many situations only small set of them is really necessary, what do you think about the most usefull UML diagrams, even for very small projects? ...
Am working on a very large PHP application written by someone else. Does anyone know of any tool (free or commercial) that would allow me to diagram which PHP file includes / calls / needs which other PHP file ? I tried nWire for PHP and it doesn't accurately capture my include () calls. ...
Hello, i am looking for an applet/application/code which reads XML. I know there are many 'Viewers' but i would like to list fields. Sort or search or group as GUI. So For example i have many books in XML and want to present them to lookup. Also a good feature is to convert fields (for example timestamps to date). Also producing diagram...
While creating some diagrams in Dia using the bpmn sheet I noticed that there's a capability for using python extensions on Dia. They have some examples on their site about doing so. Dia Project What I haven't seen yet (and I'm wondering about) is whether you can generate something code, yaml or xml based on a diagram? For example sa...
I am trying to generate publication-quality circuit diagrams within a LaTeX document. What options are available? ...
Hi, is there some good way to create a flow / swimline diagram without resorting to scripting or tables? I'm talking about showing different hosts sending packets (so hosts on the X axis, time on the Y and arrows to the destination host). It seems like too much elements for tables (especially the arrows spanning multiple columns either w...
I'm looking for a simple way to make high level designs of the structure of a program I'm working on. Something along the lines of class dependencies and connections, but I'm using it for planning, not for analysis, so it needs to be some sort of drawing app rather than a code analysis tool. I've been using Openoffice Draw but it's somew...
Hi, I'm looking for a very simple wpf diagram toolset that would allow me to create simple charts based on data from the database. I need a simple solution - I have seen many that were too advanced, allowing the programmer to create UML diagrams, complicated charts, etc. I want to be able to show simple changes over time with a line - th...
Is there a template in Visio for creating Entity Framework data models? I am specifically lookig for shapes that contain the Entity name, and sections for 'Scalar Properties' and 'Navigation Properties'. Please forgive me if my terminology is incorrect, I am relatively new to Entity Framework. Alternatively, is there another program t...
Hey, Do you know guys how to create a diagram like following: http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/58-Interactive_Documentation_using_JavaScript_and_SVG/oracle_graph.png from bison grammar? ...
I'm trying to create a graphs of my database. Is there somewhere online that offers this service for free? I think it would be a great tool. :) EDIT: Turning this CREATE TABLE pertipoempleado ( id_tipoempleado INT primary key, descripcion VARCHAR2(200) ); CREATE TABLE perarea ( id_area INT primary key,...