>So Roxanne,
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>How's your modeling career working out? Any progress with the VM wizards? Are you using VM or Rational Rose, or the 30-day Rose from Mary Kirtland's book?

I'm using VM for this week's task although I have used the 30 day Rose Evals in the past. (One of these days I'll be able to afford the real thing)

So far I've beat up on only one direction with the VM wizards, bringing framework classes in from VFP with the Reverse Engineering Wizard. It works great, & much much more flexible than the old wizard! (Good Job Markus!) I even played devil advocate with the one drag-n-drop screen & couldnt break it. Very solid tool for a beta in regards to this half of it.

My suggestion to others that might want to try the same kind of thing is to figure out ahead of time which vcxs (& the classes within) you need in a model. Create a new model in VM & setup some "packages" under User Services to act like folders to organize class components. Make sure you save that model to mdl file (not just save log), leave the model up & fire up VFP and HOME()+VM/wiz.app. To create class diagrams, ignore the three tier view, right click on the User Services folder, Diagrams... Class Diagram. Everything is driven with right click in VM. Once you have a class diagram open, drag class componenets over from the treeview, & use right click to work modeling features and the tools menu to make neat & tidy picture.

You can let the Reverse Engineering wizard create a new model for you, but then all your class components end up dumped in one place and seems to me it really helps to think it thru before running the wizard. By the end of the week I'll start using the Code Generation wizard to pull my modeled classes back into VFP. This will be the real test I think, or atleast this is where I always got frustrated with the old wizard utility.

Just for the record, there has been a few goofy things in this exercise that I pulled minor amounts of hair out over. But those are no way related to the wizards, that's VM in it's finest crippled state IMHO.

One of these days I'm gonna make my Visio/VFP automation dream come true... either that or break down & cough up the small fortune for Rational Rose.