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Visual Studio Code is a code editor. Visual Studio is an integrated development environment.(IDE) NORMA is designed as an extension to the Visual Studio IDE and makes use of Visual Studio features that are probably not in Visual Studio Code.  So,you could probably edit the NORMA source code in Visual Studio Code but you won’t be able to ...

The NORMA software is an extension to Visual Studio.  NORMA will run with Community, Professional or Enterprise editions. As shown on this page, NORMA runs in versions of Visual Studio from 2005 to 2017. There are several versions of Visual Studio that run on Mac's so NORMA may be able to run on a Mac.  However,  I have never ...

 Hi Nicola, Thanks for your update. Here are some comments for clarification. 1: Terry may take a while to reply because his time zone is currently 10 hours ahead of yours and 11 hours ahead of mine (I'm in the UK) 2: When I want to post more than one image in a message, I use the "combine images" feature that was recently ...

 Nicola, Our JIRA system is the "appropriate" place for you to make comments on existing bugs, to report new bugs, to make feature requests or to report other findings. However, to do this, you will need a JIRA user account. JIRA is designed to help developers to "resolve issues" so JIRA treats everything as an ...

 Awesome! By "it" I assume that you mean "NORMA for Visual Studio 2008? Ken 

Nicola, I really appreciate your helpful observations and comments. Some background: I have been using ORM since the early 1990's and have used each of the ORM tools. (InfoModeler, VisioModeler, VEA and NORMA.)  Work on NORMA started about 14 years ago. For many years, I have been aware that NORMA had bugs and deficiencies but until ...

Nicola,I may be wrong, but you seem to be conflating three separate things:  (1) The way the RMAP algorithm works. (2) The way RMAP is implemented in NORMA. and (3) The scope of the model.We agreed to handle (1) & (2) in a separate thread and I see that you have already made some comments there.With respect to (3), You claimed that my ...

Nicola, ORM is better: The point about "ORM being better than anything else"  is in part related to the fact that NORMA uses RMAP to instantly create a 5NF logical model. This is "better" than alternative methods such as ERM because it saves a great deal of time. This was the subject of my 2007 MSc project which is ...

 In this separate thread, Nicola said: "I am disappointed (but not surprised) by the ORM-to-Relational mapping performed by NORMA. This is a topic for a different thread, though." So the purpose of this thread is to discuss Nicola's concerns about relational mapping in ORM and its RMAP implementation in NORMA. RMAP is ...

Nicola, "your view of a “conceptual model” is obviously biased towards a fact-oriented view: not all “conceptual models” are" In this website, we use the term "conceptual model" within the universe of discourse called "object-role modeling" as defined by Terry Halpin in his 1989 thesis and in many subsequent ...