Professional UML using Visual Studio .NET: Unmasking VISIO for Enterprise Architects

by Andrew Filev, Chaur G Wu, Kevin McNeish, et al.

What is this book about? If you want to use Visio to create enterprise software, this is the book for you. The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects provides a formidable tool. Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out databases with Entity Relationship diagrams, and aiding the development of distributed systems. Its integration with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764543768
• ISBN13: 9780764543760
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice book to integrate UML/Visio/dot net skills

There are better books to train developers in individual skills - UML, Visio, dot net. But this book does a nice job tying them altogether - it won't teach you how to model, etc. but does a very good job in applying and integrating all the skills. There are some annoying typos, but no showstoppers.

A Great Programmers Guide

If you're a VS.NET Enterprise developer and are faced with a complex development project that you're struggling to get your head around this is the answer!Having read other UML books I found them to be overly accademic but armed with book I can go from my diagrams straight into an automaticialy generated application shell.Fantastic!Ms Saeko Sekikawa

Quick, practical and effective

I join the opinion of previous reviewers. This book cooks! I did read all the O'Reilly and Addison Wesley publications, but then what it come down to is just your daily needs. This book goes far from a quick tutorial, and gets you directly into your VS.NET way of thinking.Read in 2 days, started working on an enterprise app the day after. You need to know a little bit about software design and have some exposure to .NET. Then you buy this book.

Well worth the time...

I don't know about you, but as a developer I've always wanted a book that covered the Visio modeling tool in a way that would help me be more productive in my work. With .NET and the release of the Visio for Enterprise Architects edition this desire for a comprehensive book covering Visio's use and *fit* within the .NET Enterprise Development suite has never been greater. I think Wrox has hit the nail on the head with the book offering, and believe that it will greatly help any developers looking to get an edge in developing with Visio & .NET. I know that it's been of great use to me in my development projects!

I NEVER review books, but this is different...

I was in a rush - I needed to learn UML as quickly as possible, so I picked up the O'Reilly book "UML in a Nutshell". It's a good book, but a difficult book for ME at least, because I'm a coder and these concepts were foreign to me.Next, I picked up THIS BOOK, and I learned more about UML in the first chapter than in any other effort I have made. Great book !!!