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Ok that's great :)  Some items I haven't been able to translate yet to Portuguese, because the translated texts get ambigious. It would  be nice to have a bit more documentation on the verbalization files, or at least have examples for the snippets to know in what context they are used. Just judging by the name of the ...

I'd simply suggest the name "Literature" or "Books". Altough I agree that most of the discussions will be most likely on Terry Halpins new book, there should be room to discuss other books as well. I'm sure that there is literature that might not be solely, or not at all, on ORM, but may have valueable ...

It would be nice to have a forum for discussing the available literature on ORM/NIAM/etc. to able to concentrate all the questions and remarks on the books for others to read.  Talking about books: The front page mentions that the new book of Terry Halpin will be released in april 2008, but Amazon lists it as already ...

I second that! Long and complete descriptions in the conceptual model are very handy, both in having a better idea of what is going on if you look back at older models and models of other people. Also for generating the reports I personally prefer to have normal, non abreviated descriptions. To be able to do this while keeping the names in the ...

It is actually not a bug in the relational view component, but a problem with the instalation package for VS2008. User MarkTab mailed me about the absence of the DSLToolsRedist.msi file in the installation package. Following the instructions of the readme (removing the DSLTools package from the system) and then running the batch file will end up ...

Did the XML files containing the verbalization and reporting strings change in this new CTP by the way? I'm still translating the files from the previous release. It would be a bummer if I would have to do it all over again. With kind regards, Jos

Hi, A model I created with the previous release, the vs2008 version, is shown to have only bit fields in the relational view when opening it in the latest release. when looking and the entities in the model browser, everything seems to be fine however: autocounters, numeric fields, text fields, etc. Everything is neatly defined and just like I ...

Hi Matt, thanks for the detailed fast response! Portuguese and Dutch both have genders, but as far as I am concerned its a minor issue since the grammar and spell check of Word will correct most of it I guess. Would you be interessted in the translations btw? With kind regards, Jos Bol

Hi, I just downloaded and tested the VS 2008 version of NORMA and it works great! I'm especially glad with the realtime visualization of the relation model: a lot better than VEA. Since my models are either in Dutch or in Portguese (Brazil), the verbalization isn't very pretty due to the mixture of either language and English. Is there a way ...

Hi, I'm a fan of ORM/NIAM and am a happy user of VEA and started experimenting with NORMA and I really liked it. There is however one thing that does not really work in VEA and doesn't seem to work at all in NORMA which is the generation of the ring constraints. I was hoping that with the new update this would be solved. Another thing which ...