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Connect controls in Visual Studio 2010 UML Modeling Diagrams

I've tried to create UML diagram with MSVS 2010 b2 today and I've faced a problem. After I added controls from toolbox (such as Class, Interface) I could not connect these items! So connecting controls have been disabled on the toolbox when I tried to drag it on working area. How to connect UML controls? thx ...

Best way to model these Rails relationships

Hi, I have the following scenario that I want to model the best way for a Rails application. I have a contact model that belongs to a company. A contact can create an enquiry so contact can have many enquiries. The enquiry can have many messages that can be from and to many contacts. Messages can belong to an enquiry, a company or a...

Is MMX better than Delphi's own modelling?

I'm using 2010 Enterprise, so I have all the modeling tools available. But I still seldom use them. I write the objects myself, setters, getters... I want to start using modeling besides class diagrams. Should I opt for Delphi's own implementation or perhaps try MMX. What other features does it bring to the table? Thnx. ...

Are there good tools for C# reverse engineering?

Hello, can you say me if there are good tools for reverse-engineering my C# applications. I need UML-class-diagrams of my written software and i don't want to draw these diagrams by myself. I've already tested StarUML but it didn't work because I used generics an something. Would be great if there a some advices. Greetings, Martin ...

UML Diagram to Model API

I need to create a diagram to document a RESTFul API that build, which UML diagram should I use? Thanks in advance, ...

Methods for modeling systems integration

When it comes to systems integration how do you model integration requirements? Do you use UML or BPMN or some other techniques? What limitiations you see in existing approaches and what would be an ideal modeling approach to system integration requirements in your opinion? ...

UML based Web Modelling: model the login process?

I am trying to model a web site project with UML. My question: in Use Case and Activity diagrams, should I model the login process (and if so, how)? Looking around, I didn't find a consistent answer to this question. Some people say we should no show the login as any part of the system, neither in Use Case nor in Activity diagrams; some ...

Model an information system which communicates with other information systems in an uml-diagram?

Hello, i have written a software that is generating a data output based on the communication protocol HL7, but this isn't really important for my question. I have to develop an integration concept to integrate my software as a subsystem into an enterprise information system which communicates with other information systems in other inst...

VHDL - When does a process() run for the first time?

Hi ! Consider : process(a) According to the text i have : A process is first entered at the time of simulation, at which time it is executed until it suspends itself due to a wait statement or a sensitivity list. Am i right in inferring that a process WILL have to run once even without any events on the sensitivity list?...

Best visual modeling tool for SQL Server (Erwin alternative)

We're looking for a visual modeling tool for SQL Server that allows for forward-engineering from the model to DDL. Erwin works great but is unavailable on this project, so we're looking for alternatives, an open source program would be ideal. We also have VSTS Database Edition, but it does not appear to allow for this type of functiona...

Defining Model Relations for ACL Interface (gui) with CakePHP

Hello, I have set up Auth and ACL successfully on my cakePHP app. How, now i want to build an interface for managing the ACL's, ARO's and ACO's ARO's and ACO's where pretty easy to build using the tree behavior. ACL how ever got me a little messed up... especially when it came to defining the model relations. I've named my aco and ar...

I feel like this needs to be refactored - any help? Ruby modeling

So let's say you have line_items and line_items belong to a make and a model a make has many models and line items a model belongs to a make For the bare example idea LineItem.new(:make => "Apple", :model => "Mac Book Pro") When creating a LinteItem you want a text_field box for a make and a model. Makes and models shouldn't exist...

3d modeling for data structures

Hi, I'm looking for a 3D modeling/animation software. Honestly, I don't know if this is something achievable - but what I want to have is some kind of visual representation of various ideas. Speaking in future tense: if I were to read about of the boot process of an OS, I would visualize the various data structures building up; and I c...

Modeling by example: by Thomas Funkhouser

Hi, currently Im working on a portion on this research paper "modeling by example" Have tonnes of problems now.So if anyone has knowledge on this paper, help is badly needed here. I am using java opengl for the programming. first of is that I am trying to draw a stroke. eg: 5*100 pixels stroke. How do I draw that using the mouse.Curre...

Django models generic modelling

Say, there is a Page that has many blocks associated with it. And each block needs custom rendering, saving and data. Simplest it is, from the code point of view, to define different classes (hence, models) for each of these models. Simplified as follows: class Page(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=64) class Block...

Is there a tool to model/simulate software concurrency?

Is there a good tool out there that can model an application concurrency/locking scheme in a graphical way and that can simulate some of the aspects? I know that Petri nets can be used for that more or less, but I don't know a good GUI tool that can design and simulate. Is UML in any way usable for such purposes? Any good links are ...

Tools for describing and modeling voice xml applications

What tools do you use to describe call flow, to draw, to model in voice xml development? What is the most useful editor to draw such diagrams & models [ as I can guess there's no specific tool for voice applications design ] ? And what blocks do you use to draw prompts, grammars, how would you do that in professional voice app developmen...

Displaying 3D models using C++

I am currently designing an application in C++. Part of this application would be displaying changing 3D objects. I have designed several bits of these 3D objects in Blender And also am aware of other programs with which to do this (Maya, etc.) However, I am unsure how to use C++ To display these objects, much less manipulate them in...

Strange constraints in generated SQL

Note: This question is not related to Visual Paradigm. Anyone that knows SQL could answer it. I am using Visual Paradigm to model a database in our project (using ER diagrams). When Visual Paradigm generates the SQL equivalent for the database and I import it in MSSQL it works pretty. I took a look in generated SQL code to make sur...

Modelling / documenting functional programs

I've found UML useful for documenting various aspects of OO systems, particularly class diagrams for overall architecture and sequence diagrams to illustrate particular routines. I'd like to do the same kind of thing for my clojure applications. I'm not currently interested in Model Driven Development, simply on communicating how applica...