SDE for Visual Studio® .NET is a UML CASE tool for Visual Studio® .NET which allows you to perform analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment in a single unified platform. With our cutting edge round-trip and incremental code synchronization technology, the UML model and code are always synchronized. SDE is seamlessly integrated into the Visual Studio® .NET platform so that you can use the full-featured VP-UML inside your favourite IDE environment.

1. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET UML Tool - Unified Modeling Language Tool for Microsoft VS .NET

2. Full Software Development Support using Visual Studio .NET UML Modeling Tool - Visual Studio UML CASE Tool

3. Modeling Features of UML Tool for Visual Studio - Microsoft Visual Studio .NET UML Modeling Tool

4. Interoperability of UML Modeling CASE Tool for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

After performing the UML design, you can generate .NET source codes directly from the class models. All you need to do is to fill in the necessary method implementation codes.

For more information, please read the user's guide and tutorial.

SDE's code/model synchronization facility keeps the .NET source codes and UML models always synchronized. You can choose to perform code/model synchronization either automatically (triggered on deactivation of text editors/diagrams) or on-demand (using menus/toolbars/popup menus). The scope of the synchronization can also be controlled in on-demand code/model synchronization - either updates the whole project or update selected classes/files.

For more information, please read the user's guide and tutorial.

With the superior interoperability between SDE and XMI/Rose, you can import/export your design works to/from SDE very conveniently. You can choose to import an XMI file that is created using a third-party tool, or you can export the SDE project to an XMI file to be imported into other applications. You can also import a Rose project (.mdl) file into SDE instead of creating the model elements and diagrams from scratch.

For more information, please read the user's guide and tutorial.

SDE provides the most user-friendly What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get visual modeling features, including resource-centric and special containment effect, which makes diagram editing a much easier task.

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You can generate reports for your SDE project either in HTML or PDF format. Customers and working partners can thus view your UML documentation even if they do not have SDE installed. There are many configurable options so that you can design a report that best suits your requirements.

For more information, please read the user's guide and tutorial.

SDE provides sophisticated printing facility which produces professional-looking printout of the UML diagrams/documentation. You can customize the layout of the printout by configuring the page setup, margins, fit to pages/ratio options, overlapping percentage, header/footer, etc.

For more information, please read the user's guide and tutorial.

You can impress the readers by customizing the UML diagrams with special fill color, line style and font. Beside plain fill color style, you can choose from a list of pre-defined gradient color themes or you may define a new one. The line style can be configured to apply different stroke, weight, color and transparency. And you may choose a different font for each diagram element as well.

For more information, please read the user's guide and tutorial.

SDE allows you to export UML diagrams to various image formats, including JPG, PNG and SVG. You can select which diagrams to export as images, or you may export just a portion of a diagram.

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SDE supports all UML diagrams including use case diagram, class diagram, sequence diagram, collaboration diagram, state diagram, activity diagram, component diagram, deployment diagram, textual analysis, business workflow diagram and CRC card diagram.