Chapter 4: Generating Code From the Visio Model

Chapter 4 - Generating Code From the Visio Model
byAndrew Filevet al.?
Wrox Press ©2002

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Highlights

The planning phase is over - you already have a full description of the static structure of your system, with classes, links, attributes and much more. Now, you are ready for the coding.

Visio for Enterprise Architects can generate skeleton source code from an existing UML diagram in C#, Visual Basic .NET, or C++. Moreover, Visio provides further options that give the developer greater control over the implementation of this source code.

We will begin this chapter with an overview of code generation, before moving on to look at the following topics:

• How to generate code from a UML model in Visio

• Templates for code generation - what they are, and how we work with them

• How to create a model that correctly maps to programming language and use specific .NET entities (like enumerations, delegates, events)

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