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stefcl
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# Posted on: 13-Feb-2008 11:01:59   

Hello,

I'm looking for a modeling tool to help me design classes and hierarchies for my c# projects. I often use known design patterns and I think it would be of great help to have a graphical view of what I do...

I've tried to use the class diagram designer in vs2008 but I'm not very happy with it. Any suggestion or tool you would recommand?

Anonymous
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# Posted on: 13-Feb-2008 15:41:29   

Check out Enterprise Architect. It's pretty cheap when compared to others but still has lots of features. Does reverse engineering from class files also.

Pete

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# Posted on: 13-Feb-2008 15:58:44   

You really don't want to use visio for UML, the UI is horrible inefficient.

I have no answer as well, as we here don't use UML, so I can't give you any advice in that area.

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# Posted on: 13-Feb-2008 16:00:55   

Enterprise Architect is pretty good. Not without some quirks, though. It is very reasonably priced.

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# Posted on: 13-Feb-2008 17:55:31   

Hehe flushed I thought lad4bear meant VS.NET Enterprise Architect smile (with visio).

Sparx systems' EA looks indeed pretty good!

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dioptre
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# Posted on: 14-Feb-2008 09:38:41   

I've used argoUML successfully.

Anonymous
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# Posted on: 14-Feb-2008 12:25:11   

Good Lord no - Sparx Enterprise Architect for me. It is "quirky" in bits and if you have text i.e use-case docs use a word processor and link to it. EA doesn't add much value here.

Pete

stefcl
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# Posted on: 16-Feb-2008 10:39:17   

Thanks a lot for your answers! I'm going to evaluate them.

nitin.reddy
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# Posted on: 08-Apr-2008 11:50:39   

Apart from Enterprise Architect (commercial), Visio (commercial) and ArgoUML (open source), I found Dia (open source) to be a pretty good light-weight tool for drawing - it's included with many Linux distributions.

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# Posted on: 08-Apr-2008 16:56:25   

I've used Sparx System's Enterprise Architect in the past for UML diagrams. I liked it especially when compared to the lighter-weight Visio and heavier-weight Rational products.

You might also check out Visual Paradigm's toolsets (http://www.visual-paradigm.com/). I am evaluating their process modeler but they also have a UML tool (http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/) and their Agilian tool does UML and more (http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/ag/).

Jeff M
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# Posted on: 24-Apr-2008 04:02:25   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UML_tools

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# Posted on: 12-May-2008 22:43:36   

EA is indeed awesome. It even has great extensibility built in if you don't find all the features you need e.g. I created a web modeller add in to reverse engineer ASP files to UML models

http://mattadamson.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-first-open-source-project-web.html