The ORM Foundation

That's good news.  

Remember to use setup with "Run as Admin"   

Let me know how you get on with the installation.

Ken  

These short videos will give youa quick introduction to how to use ORM. & NORMA

Entering Fact Types: 

https://vimeo.com/249718625/7f9fe71ce7

Extend the Student Model

https://vimeo.com/249735346/4ad92e822e

Ken 

 Sorry for the delayed feedback.

I have installed the test release of NORMA for VS 2017 (as an admin). When I create a new model (File > New > File… > Object-Role Modeling File), a new text document titled ORMModel1.orm is created containing some XML. I don't think that is expected. Also, when I go to Tools > Options > ORM Designer > General, I get this error: “An error occurred loading this property page”.

Using VS Community 2017 v15.8.7 with .NET Framework v4.7.03056. 

NORMA stores ORM files in XML format, so what's happening is that "for some reason" your NORMA installation is not processing the XML file correctly.

Please let me know what happens if you try to open an existing ORM file such as the "talent agency" file that you can download from here

http://www.ormfoundation.org/files/folders/norma_-_open_source_models/entry1908.aspx

 Ken

 It's also opened as a text document.

Is it possible to uninstall or force reinstall NORMA? If I run Setup.bat again, it tells me that NORMA is already installed and does not proceed. 

You can uninstall NORMA from within Windows.
You also have to uninstall PLiX. 

On my Win 10 Pro installation, I type "uninstall" in the search box at the bottom left of the main windows page. 

This gives a link to "Add or remove programs" in System Settings.

You can also go directly to "Settings" and then choose Apps & Features.

In "Apps & Features" you will see a list that includes NORMA and PliX. (see below)

If you click on each item, you will be presented with two buttons "Modify" and "Uninstall".

Ken

I have reinstalled NORMA. Now, when I try to open the Talent file, I get the following error:

The 'ORM Solutions Natural Object-Role Modeling Architect Package' package did not load correctly.

The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension. You can get more information by examining the file C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_aeebc603\ActivityLog.xml'.

Restarting Visual Studio could help resolve the issue.

Continue to show this error message? 

When I press Yes, after a few second the dialog reappears and VS hangs (I cannot dismiss the dialog any more: Windows shows “Microsoft Visual Studio is Busy”). And ActivityLog.xml does not seem to exist.

 I attach the error message from ActivityLog.xml.

Are you running this on a Mac or on a Windows PC?

Please check that you have installed the following Visual Studio workloads.

 .NET desktop development
ASP.NET and web development
Visual Studio extension development.

Thanks! That got me up and running.

I am working on Windows: unless I am missing something, NORMA is not cross-compatible with Visual Studio for Mac. 

My Mac/Windows question was related to our earlier discussion about the two ways of running Windows on a Mac.
I don't know if NORMA will run on Visual Studio for Mac because I don't have a Mac to test it.

Anyway, well done for getting NORMA running.

Ken 

Said otherwise, does NORMA have support for resolving join path ambiguities as described in Information Modeling and Relational Databases, sec. 10.1?

The simple answer is "partially".

Since it is Terry's book, I have asked him to give a response.

In the meantime, if you put "join path" in the search box at the top right and select "entire site" , you will see that join paths have been "in discussion" for about ten years.

 Ken

 Nicola,

I see that your model is named "Koehler2007s.orm"

If this is a reference to a publication, please let me have the reference so that I can follow up.

Thanks

Ken