Delete a specific message of combined message in communication diagram
May 28, 2010
Majority of products in the market though allow users to create multiple messages which results in confusion with multiple arrows on a message link. What even worse is that you find it hard to delete a specific message among various messages. With VP-UML, you can not only combine numerous messages into a combined message with just one arrow, but also delete a specific message of the combined message instead of all messages.
Screen mockup with Screen designer
May 28, 2010
Web Application UI is an easy-to-use screen mockup tool which can help you to develop the prototype of your user interface with few clicks. Since most common UI elements are handy, you can speed up the creation of user interface. Moreover, with resource centric interface, you can add a note for your UI elements to provide references.
Drawing association class to a class
May 20, 2010
An association class, which is essentially a class attached to an association, is used to model an association as a class. It has its own name, attributes operations, just like any other ordinary class. However, it is described by additional attributes which does not belong to the objects involved in the association. For example, an Enrollment class is added to hold the attribute year between Student class and Course class, but it does not belong to either Student class or Course class.
Export class diagram to Excel and modify type
May 7, 2010
Visual Paradigm for UML supports exporting and importing Microsoft Excel file. You can export diagrams to Excel file, edit model elements' name and their properties in tabular format and furthermore, import the modification back to VP-UML.
Publish business process with project publisher
May 4, 2010
Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports publishing project to web enabled format. You, therefore, can share your latest and most accurate business process and system with your customers, team members and colleagues of other departments through Project Publisher. The published content consists of all information in the project, including documentation, detail property, internal references and external references of each diagram and model element.
How to add field to use case details?
April 29, 2010
Information about use cases can be found in UseCase Details. A number of fields such as level, complexity and author are provided by default. In case you may need to create extra information for your use case details, VP-UML allows you to add field to the Details of UseCase Details.
Compare databases with Visual Diff
March 23, 2010
Visual Diff is a feature providing visual comparison between diagrams. We can make use of Visual Diff to compare the structure of different databases. Assume we have 2 databases, Database1 and Database2.
Comparison of query performance when working with ORM
February 5, 2010
Using Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) approach is very popular in developing modern database applications. ORM allows you to handle relational data in a pure object-oriented approach, which is more natural to developers and also the modern programming language they are using (i.e. Java, .NET).
January 25, 2010
GUID (Global Unique Identifier) is a special type of identifier in Micorsoft SQL Server, which commonly use for generate unique value for key columns. You can specify column as GUID through the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD).
Tips for working with large scale project
December 18, 2009
When working with a large, enterprise scale model that involves many diagrams and model element, we may find experience slowness in application, uneasy to model effectively in large diagram and difficult to locate model element. In this article, we will introduce some tips to help improve application performance, reduce time in modeling and diagramming, and to find elements easier.
