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What's the present situation regarding the CTP and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (codename ORCAS). Is NORMA yet installable in that version of VS? /Sten

I've just moved over from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008. (Some might think that's irresponsible, but given my use of Visual Studio I assure you it's exactly the opposite:-))When I tried to install NORMA I was told that NORMA requires Visual Studio 2005. Any chance of a patch here real soon? I know I would appreciate it. /Sten

Brian, Thanks for the tips. I haven't been in those places you suggest yet, but I'm certainly going to. And I totally agree with what you're saying about the Neumont team. Terry and I go back quite a while now, and Matt has been really helpful too. They are great guys, and they know what they are doing. And we all know that Terry is the ...

Thanks again Brian, I strongly agree with your statement about objects in ORM being different from Objects in OO techniques. In fact, I tend to think about the ORM objects as terms rather than as objects, terms which refer to underlying concepts. As a matter of fact I'm not very interested in so-called domain objects in OO. This is because ...

Thank you Brian, I'm fully aware of the multi-page feature, and I use it intensively. What I mean is where multiple objects on one single page are related to the same object. Allowing the same object to occur in more than one place on a specific diagram helps me avoid cluttering the diagram. Still, your message helped, and I thank you for ...

Here's the second wish of the day. IMO it's an important wish, especially in a SOA environment. It's for a chance to designate an object (probably just entity objects) as an external object to the model, belonging to another model. A typical service-oriented architectural pattern is (or will be) to create an infrastructure of shareable ...

I have two wishes today, and I will divide and hopefully conquer by splitting them into two messages. I'll take the easy one first. It would be nice to be able to see that a specific object is duplicated and thus occurs in another place on the same diagram. This would help the viewer understand that additional facts about the duplicated object ...

Whatever it's called, it shouldn't be marked as an error if missing. It should be possible to enter an entity type without assigning a reference mode/scheme to it, and to show that entity type to business domain experts without having the lack of a reference mode flagged as an error. It's perfectly normal to assign ref modes late in the process, ...

I believe there is a conceptual quality in the isExternal property. One of the great things about Service-Oriented Architecture is the way it allows you to build an infrastructure of shareable information. Such an infrastructure technically consists of a number of entity services, where the mission of each entity service is to be the only ...

Actually, I do think that a deontic constraint should be implemented. An alethic constraint is verbalized in terms of ''must''; e.g. a race horse must have exactly one trainer. If you break an alethic constraint an error should be issued and the operations should be denied. A deontic constraint is verbalized in terms of ''should''; e.g. a race ...