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Visio UML Support in VS. NET Jiri
5/8/2004 7:37:09 PM
visual studio .net enterprise tools:
Hello,

I have installed VS.NET 2003 EA and Visio for Enterprise Architect 2003
(10.0.2705), but I cannot find how to reverse-engineering projects (for
example simple WinForms app in C#) into UML diagrams. There is no shortcut
in Project menu in Visual Studio. Can anybody help me to solve this problem?
What did I miss?

My next question is going to versions of Visio. In MS Office 2003 System is
Office Visio Proffesional 2003 (build 11......). Can I upgrade VSEA 2003 to
this? What is the difference between them? I cannot lost UML and Database
reverse-engineering support. What's your opinion.

Thanks for any info.

Best regards

Jiri

Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET CT
5/9/2004 8:43:08 AM
If you installed VSEA first and then VEA, you should have a Visio UML sub
menu in the Project menu in VS .NET, when a solution is loaded. If not, I
suggest reapiring VEA. You can have both VEA and Visio 2003 installed on the
same machine, although they spend a minute reconfiguring when you swap from
one to the other. Visio 2003 doesn't integrate with VS .NET, so if you need
reverse engineering of projects to UML, VEA is currently your only choice.

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Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET Jiri
5/9/2004 10:40:31 AM
Thanks for reply. I try to repair VSA but the Visio UML sub menu in the
Project menu is still missing. I also try to reinstall it, but the problem
is still here.
I hate this unexpected, hard to solve problems, but I'm going to solve it
:-)
Is there any way how to check it manually, for example in registry, config
files, dlls?
I got a liitle bit research in Add-ins in VS and I found there is no Add-in
registered. I suppose Visio add-in will be shown in Tools/Add-in manager
Also in HKEY_CURRENT_USER (or Local
Machine)/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/7.1 is no Addins key. The Visio
dlls (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Visio10\Tools\UML\umlvs.dll) are
installed
There is only a key in Machine/Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/7.1 (or 7) in
Packages key to umlvs.dll and UmlvsUI.Dll (satellite dll).
I suppose that these dlls are not corectly registered.

I installed clear Windows 2003 Server Standard as my development OS, VSEA
2003,
Office 2003, VSA 2003 in this order.

Jiri

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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET CT
5/9/2004 11:34:27 AM
Not sure what is going on, but I can answer some of your questions, inline
please.

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Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
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Hmm, that has solved it for me on at least one workstation.

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That's the spirit...<g>

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No, it's not an add-in in VS .NET

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I don't know, but I do know that these files aren't COM components, but
merely standard Windows DLL's, so they don't need Registry registration
(well at least not any standard registration).
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Hmm, I wonder if installing Office 2003 before installing VEA (i.e. in
between VSEA and VEA) means something. I don't suppose you care to spend a
few hours working that out...<g> I have tried installing Office 2003 first
and then VSEA and VEA, and also installing VSEA and VEA first and then
Office 2003 and that all worked.

Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET Jiri
5/9/2004 3:22:44 PM
Thanks for reply. I appreciate your help. I looked again on internet to find
any help and found this post with same problem mentioned by Maria on 30.may
2003 on microsoft.public.vsnet.setup forum. Here is the link from Google:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=022001c326d1%24c1460e00%24a301280a%40phx.gbl&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3DVisio%2BUML%2Bsub%2Bmenu%2Bin%2Bthe%2BProject
There are a lot of tips, but everything failed ... I have all registry keys
correct and still no menu :-).
Mark Feathers (reply no. 31) posted another tip, but i cannot rise the right
dialogs :-).
May be it will be better to move this thread to microsoft.public.vsnet.setup
forum, it seems they have more experience with this type of problem.
(nothing personal, only thinking about the correctness of posting it here).
George

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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET CT
5/9/2004 6:59:11 PM
Just a thought, have you tried installing VEA SP2?
http://office.microsoft.com/OfficeUpdate/default.aspx

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Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET Jiri
5/9/2004 7:54:57 PM
No I have not. This SP is only for VEA 2002, not for 2003.
Well. I try to post it to previous mentioned forum. If you want I keep you
informed about the solution and progress.
George

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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET CT
5/10/2004 6:14:17 AM
Yes, but VEA 2003 is really a special Visio 2002 edition...

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Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET Jiri
5/10/2004 8:44:36 AM
Yes, you are right. I try Office Upade and it advice me to install it so I
installed SP2 ... and ... menu still missing :-)
George

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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET Jiri
5/16/2004 11:18:54 AM
Hi Carsten

The problem is resolved :-) I have Visio UML sub menu :-) But the way how
:-)
I installed FileMonitor and RegEditor from SysInternals website to monitor
what is loading when Studio and Project start. I see correct (for me)
loading of uml dlls and registry mentioned in previous threads (see my
link). But I found nothing. In this link where also a strange thing that was
happened which corrected the problem (by seeing MSDN website). Well I have
"same" experience. I was browsing MSDN library installed on my computer (I
was looking for detailed information of System.IO.FileInfo class.), when the
same dialog (standard configuration dialog of Visual Studio, you can see it
for example when installing Office) appears. I follow instructions, insert
only installation CD and "configured" what I suppose what was configured
before :-). After installation I immediately check the project menu ... and
wow ... Visio UML sub menu is here :-) but how it was done, don't really
know :-).

George

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Re: Visio UML Support in VS. NET CT
5/22/2004 12:46:55 PM
Hi Jiri,

Very pleased to hear you solved it, as I had no idea where to look next.

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Carsten Thomsen
Enterprise Development with VS .NET, UML, and MSF
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=105
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