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Hi, Great news I think; Visual studio community 2013 (link below) is a free version of visual studio with the features of the professional edition. It supports NORMA (just tried it, works like a charm). http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs Regards, Karl

 Hi,  I don't want to sound impatient but I was wondering when the next update to NORMA will be available   Regards, Karl

 Hi Matt,  That sounds perfect. Can't wait!    Regards, Karl 

 Hi there,  Would it be possible to display the (syntactic) data type in the ORM verbalization browser? For example; I have a value type "Name" which has a data type "variable length" and may not be longer than 32 characters. The verbalization of that value type is as follows;Name is a value type. Portable data type: ...

 Hi Jacob,  If you want, I don't mind helping in some testing as I'm fluent in dutch.  Regards, Karl

Just tried it with VS2012 and ODAC 12c Release 2 (12.1.0.1.2) and it works with the unmanaged ODP.NET driver  Thanks guys!! saves me alot of work!

 Matt,  The first option works like a charm! Syntax highlighting is working again. Thanks for the help.  Regards, Karl

 Help! . I've lost the syntax highlighting in the ORM fact editor: any text I type in is black. Does anyone know how to restore the syntax highlighting? I've already tried quite a few things like uninstalling NORMA and VS2012. Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Regards, Karl

 Hi Guys, Any progress in this area ? Just asking because I was planning on reverse engineering an oracle schema using VS2012 and ODAC 12c Release 2 (12.1.0.1.2) but I got the mentioned "invariant is not supported" message.  Regards, Karl  

Hi Matt, I've used the tool a few years back (and i am up to speed on cogniam) and you're spot on. A big difference is that the facttypes in doctool do not require a uniqueness constraint to cover the n-1 roles of the facttype. That, of course, is because that is allowed way of modellingin the niam method. However if you can analyse and ...