New Features in SDE 6.3 for Visual Studio

What's New in Smart Development Environment 6.3 for Visual Studio?

Release date: September 19, 2011View release notes

Enterprise Edition includes new features below

Brainstorm ideas, realize to design

Put your ideas down on notes and stick them on a board. Play around with them as prep work for drawing business process diagrams. Optionally generate model elements from those notes and add to your business process diagrams.

Professional Edition includes new features below

Your Terms, Your Definitions

Create your own glossary to establish a common base of vocabularies used in project. Want to know where your terms were used? Check it out in a matrix view displaying associations between glossary terms and model elements.

Flow of events editor

Write series of interactions between users and system with flow of events editor. One use case contains multiple flow of events to describe different scenarios. Smart Development Environment for Visual Studio provides easy-to-use editor to write flow of events.
The following movie demonstrates how to use the flow of events editor to describe use case scenario.

Online training

Document Use Case using Use Case Detail (Free)

Database generation

Smart Development Environment for Visual Studio supports generating database schema (DDL) from entity relationship diagram. Smart Development Environment for Visual Studio supports all major database vendors. You can generate full database initialization scripts of alter statements just for updating existing databases. The following movie shows you the database generation feature.

Tutorial

Design and generate database

Standard Edition includes new features below

Flexible report composer

Convert system design to report by few mouse clicks. The generated report can preview and compare with the design side by side.

Modeler Edition includes new features below

MS Excel file import and export

Smart Development Environment for Visual Studio supports exporting and importing Microsoft Excel file. Excel is the best tool for mass editing of model element names and properties. You may export diagram to Excel file, edit their names and properties in tabular format, and then import the changes back to Smart Development Environment for Visual Studio. The following screenshots demonstrate how to export and import Excel file.

Revisions of Designs At Your Fingertips

Consistently keep revisions of designs (diagrams) and files in sync. Share files with team members easily.

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