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What is Visual Paradigm Suite (VP Suite)? |
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What is Smart Development Environment for Microsoft Visual Studio (SDE-VS)? |
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What are the differences between editions of SDE-VS? |
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What user languages are available? |
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I have Visio 2003 and Microsoft .NET Framework installed, but still cannot import the stencils. What can I do? |
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My Report Writer becomes grayed and inactive after creating a new report. Why this happen? |
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Can SDE-VS connect to the Teamwork Server? |
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Did SDE-VS have floating license? |
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| Code Engineering |
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What languages that SDE-VS supports? |
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How can I perform code generation/reverse engineering on SDE-VS? |
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Does SDE-VS has any Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) features? |
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Does SDE-VS support J2SE 5.0 code engineering? |
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Can I perform code generation/reverse engineering with SDE-VS other than Class Diagram? |
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When I was performing C++ Instant Reverse, it said "No class construct is found in user's files". What does it mean? |
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| Download & Installation |
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Where can I download the SDE-VS? |
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What version of Visual Studio does SDE-VS support? |
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Does SDE-VS work on Visual Studio 2005? |
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Does SDE-VS work on Visual Studio Express Edition? |
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Can I install more than one copy of SDE-VS on the same VS.NET? |
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| Import and Export |
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What version of XMI that SDE-VS support? |
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Why there are no diagrams created when I import project from XMI? |
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Does SDE-VS support import models from Rose or XDE? |
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| Plug-in |
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What is plug-in in SDE-VS? |
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Where can I find more information about plug-in? |
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| Licensing |
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What's the meaning of "non-commercial use"? |
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Can I use SDE-VS for internal training purpose in my company? |
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How can I remove the pattern watermark when using the community edition? |
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| General Questions |
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What is Visual Paradigm Suite (VP Suite)? |
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Visual Paradigm Suite is a group of software designed to accelerate your development in the whole software development life-cycle. It includes Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML), Smart Development Environment (SDE), Business Process Visual ARCHITECT (BP-VA), DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA), Agilian (AG) and DB Visual ARCHITECT SQL (DB-VA SQL). |
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What is Smart Development Environment for Microsoft Visual Studio (SDE-VS)? |
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SDE-VS is an UML CASE tools which embedded itself into Microsoft Visual Studio. It combines professional UML modeling, advanced code engineering and excellent interoperability into a single development platform. As it is embedded into the VS.NET, it gives you the unified look & feel throughout the design and development process thus greatly enhance the productivity and reduce the learning curve from getting familiar another modeling tools. |
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What are the differences between editions of SDE-VS? |
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SDE-VS provides different editions aimed from personal learning to enterprise production usage. The major differences are the supported functionalities and the license terms. Except the Community Edition and Personal Edition, all editions can be used in production environment. Furthermore, the Community Edition only allows a maximum of one diagram for each type of UML diagram per project, and all the diagrams and documentations generated from both the Community Edition and the Personal Edition will show a small Visual Paradigm logo at the top left corner.
For more information about the supported features, please go to http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/vs/sdevseditioncomparison.jsp.
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What user languages are available? |
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Currently we only have English user interface is available. |
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I have Visio 2003 and Microsoft .NET Framework installed, but still cannot import the stencils. What can I do? |
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In order to import Visio stencils into SDE-VS, the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and Microsoft Office Visio 2003 must be installed. It is important that you must install .NET Framework before installing Visio. Besides, the "Visio Send to VP" Plug-in must be installed. The plug-in can be found in the "bundled" directory under the VP Suite installation directory. |
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My Report Writer becomes grayed and inactive after creating a new report. Why this happen? |
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We found that there are some problems for the Report Writer if the user's name contains space character. To solve this problem, please run Report Writer under a user account containing no spaces for its name. |
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Can SDE-VS connect to the Teamwork Server? |
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SDE-VS can connect to the Teamwork Server to perform teamwork operations (Modeler Edition or above). The build in Teamwork Client helps you to check-in/check-out the projects to and from the server also resolve the conflicts when needed. |
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Did SDE-VS have floating license? |
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Yes, SDE-VS have floating license (Modeler Edition or above) and it can connect with the Floating License Server to obtain the license key. |
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| Code Engineering |
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? What languages that SDE-VS supports? |
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SDE-VS supports code engineering on C#, C++ and VB .NET. |
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How can I perform code generation/reverse engineering on SDE-VS? |
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Code generation/reverse engineering is a very natural action in SDE-VS. It can be done through the Auto Synchronization or update manually. There is another handy way for doing the reverse engineering which is called Instant Reverse. Instant Reverse is a one-off reverse engineering options that can reverse various kinds of source/binaries into UML model. |
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Does SDE-VS has any Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) features? |
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Our engineers are now working on the ORM features for .NET languages. It should be available on or before the end of Sep. 2005. |
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Does SDE-VS support J2SE 5.0 code engineering? |
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SDE-VS does not support J2SE 5.0 code engineering at this moment. |
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Can I perform code generation/reverse engineering with SDE-VS other than Class Diagram? |
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SDE-VS only supports code generation/reverse engineering on class models. |
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When I was performing C++ Instant Reverse, it said "No class construct is found in user's files". What does it mean? |
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Class is the basic unit for performing the C++ Instant Reverse. Although C like source code can also be compiled by a C++ compiler, but it cannot be reversed by Instant Reverse. |
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| Download & Installation |
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Where can I download the SDE-VS? |
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SDE-VS is bundled inside the VP Suite. You can download the latest version of VP Suite at the following link
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/
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What version of Visual Studio does SDE-VS support? |
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SDE-VS supports Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 (Standard Edition or above). |
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Does SDE-VS work on Visual Studio 2005? |
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SDE-VS works on both VS.NET 2003 and VS 2005 (Standard Edition or above) now. |
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Does SDE-VS work on Visual Studio Express Edition? |
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SDE-VS only works on Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition or above/Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or above. |
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Can I install more than one copy of SDE-VS on the same VS.NET? |
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No. Each SDE-VS can only install on one VS.NET. |
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| Import and Export |
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What version of XMI that SDE-VS support? |
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SDE-VS supports import and export of XMI 1.0/1.2/2.1 for UML 1.x or 2.0. |
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Why there are no diagrams created when I import project from XMI? |
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This is probably because there is no diagram information stored in the original XMI file. Please refer to the documentation of the tool from which the XMI file was created for more details. |
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Does SDE-VS support import models from Rose or XDE? |
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SDE-VS supports import models and diagrams from Rational Rose only (.mdl file and its associated .cat files). |
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| Plug-in |
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What is plug-in in SDE-VS? |
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The SDE-VS plug-in is a small program that can integrate with SDE-VS and access to the models inside the projects. |
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Where can I find more information about plug-in? |
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You can obtain more information about SDE-VS plug-in at the following page:
Plug-in User's Guide and API
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| Licensing |
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What's the meaning of "non-commercial use"? |
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"Non-commercial use" means user cannot use the software for making money (i.e. a commercial organization cannot use the community edition or personal edition on any production usage). If user need to use the product on commercial usage, please select the modeler edition or above. |
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Can I use SDE-VS for internal training purpose in my company? |
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Community Edition is only for "non-commercial use" only. For internal training purpose, please contact training@visual-paradigm.com for more information. |
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How can I remove the pattern watermark when using the community edition? |
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The pattern watermark shows because you have created more than one diagram of at least one diagram type. If there are more than one diagrams of any type, it will switch to evaluation mode. Diagram printed will contain pattern watermarks. To avoid the problem happening again, please create not more than one diagram of any type in Community Edition. |
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