I have a question, starting the debugger somehow indirectly, in this szenario: 1) I start a dot-net-executable within a batch-file 2) When this exe is started from the batch, I want, that the debugger is started "automatically", so that I have the chance to trace the running exe (e.g. by breakpoints) Question: How can I start the debugger this way? Thank you

Dear readers, for an xml-file I creat the corresponding schema-file (.xsd) in two ways: a) with VStudio and b) with the tool "xsd.exe" Both results are in some way different. e.g. at data-types or at the label "minoccurs". It seems not to be so dramatic. But, I use these schema-files for xmlmaps in excel, and here I have a dramatic impact. I get totally different behavior for both xsd-version. Does anybody know, why both tools give a different result? For my use-case, the VStudio-generated xsd is better, but how can I access is without Vstudio? Thanks in advance

Dear experts, I have the following question: Is there any piece of code available which displays an xml-file as a treeview. I feel it should easily possible with all the mechanisms as data-binding, serialization ,... Kind regards

Dear experts, I have the following problem. I want to merge 2 xml-files into one automatically. How can this be accomplished in the best way. a) by a c#-pgrogram b) by xslt-transformation c)... do you have any link/solution? Kind regards

Hi Hans, do you have a bit more information?

Thanks for your reply. I already use EnterpriseArchitect for my personal needs. But there are 2 counter-indicators against Enterprise Architect 1. It cannot be introduced into the enterprise, because e.g. design, requirement, tracking-tools are already defined and extensively used 2. Enterprise Architect is capable only for small subsets of my tasks; e.g. I have "unit-test-reports" (based on xml) which have to be published, I have meeting-minutes, build-results, and much much more. A lot of my artefacts is the result of a continuous integration process Kind regards

Dear members, I have some beginners questions. I'm acting as a SW-architect and I have to create a lot of documentation. I do this with a lot of heterogenous tools: MS-Word, xls, Powerpoint, PDF, HTML, .... Everything is incompatible and needs a major effort. And, may be more important: Consistency between these artefacts has to be checked manually: a nightmare. Now, in the last timeframe, I did some research and I think that there are much better ways: Something as "automation". What I understand with "automation" is: Store all the information in xml-files and based on that create your documentation: html, xls, pdf,.... The transformation is done by using xsl. My questions are: 1. Can somebody give me hints how to tackle my needs most efficiently? 2. What is the best way to create html-pages which contain only static content (no user interaction, e.g. test-results) 3. Is xsl-transformation the right approach. 4. ...and more... I guess I have forgotten a lot of important questions Thank you for your tips in advance

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Dear experts, first in short my problem which I want to solve. I want to check by a tool the adherence to a process. In concrete this means, that I have some type of a model how the process should be followed and I want to check this now. An simple example: Let's assume I have 3 process entities: a) Requirements b) Implementation c) Final test. The workflow is now as follows: If Requirements change, the Implementation must be updated and finally the Tests must be made. And much more combinations are possible... The information on the versions of req, impl. and tests ist stored in some meta-info-files (e.g. xml.files or databases) Solution: I don't know how to start here. What I wanted to implement were some rules or workflows. E.g. If the req. have been updated there must be at least some xml-information which references this version of req. and ...... My first approach ended with endless for loops and if-statements; totally unmaintainable. Questions: 1. I "feel" that my topic has to do with workflow-programming. Is this right? 2. Is there any beginners information available? 3. I read about WWF. Is this the right starting poing? 4. I also read about some "rule based engines". Is this similiar to workflows? Kind regards

Thank you !

Thank you very much for your help, a very nice overview With very kind Regards ;)

Thanks's for your answer, but I still are unable to catch the point probably :-))) As I understand you, Requirements are from the user and Features are from the implementation. Am I right? Let me try an example: We have 3 user requirements: R1: Read configdata from file after startup R2: Store configdata to file at closing I have the following implementation (-features) I1: Search file from directory-tree I2: Read config-file I3: Interpret config-file I4: Write config-file This means: R1 is implemented by I1 and I2 and I3 R2 is implemented by I1 and I4. For getting traceability now, I have to check which requirement is implemented by which feature. Is my thinking right in some way? With kind regards

Dear readers, I'm confused about the interaction between the terms "requirements" and "features". I read a lot about that but I didn't really get the point. There are a lot of statements, as: 1. A feature is built from a group of requirements 2. Traceability (between requirments and implementation) is possible only for features and not for requirements. ...and a lot more... Can somebody provide me some information? Thank's ! !

Dear experts, may be I have a stupid question for the experts. During my complete sw-career, if I had to parse some information from a text-file, I wrote some hand-crafted functions/classes which were full of (stringcompare, if-then-else-constructs, nested "for"-loops, ....). Finally this code was always totally unmaintainable and unreusable. An example: Getting the include-structure of a c++ - based program can easily get complicated, because the active include-files get constrained on nested defines. Now I read something on grammars and parsers which are used for compiler-construction. This seems to be very interesting to a lot of practical problems (not only to my include-structure-parsing-problem). Due to my beginners level of knowhow I have some questions: 1. Which links/books are available for beginners? 2. Is there a way to automatically create a parser solely from a grammar? 3. Is there any C# - Example available anywhere (e.b. at Codeproject) Kind Regards

Hallo to all. Does somebody know how to remove a AddIn from VStudio 2008? I already deinstalled the AddIn from Windows, but there are still some menu-entries in VStudio 2008 Kind regards

Hallo to all. Since I deinstalled a VStudio-AddIn via "Remove Programs", VStudio rejects to start. It pops up for a second and then it closes. I found the recipe in the help. The problem is, that the deinstalled AddIn still exists in the VStudio menues. VStudio tries to start it a startup and then it crashes. I found a recipe against this behavior in the help: Pressing the Shift-Button during startup of VStudio does not load the plugin and VStudio starts normally. It does also not enough to "totally disable" the AddIn in the VStudio-AddIn-Manager. My Question is: How can I deinstall (manually) a VStudio-Plugin? Kind regards

modified on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:23 AM

I perfromed a repair - it dit not help. :-(((

Unfortunately I'm only familiar with using the doxygen binary - not the source-code

Can you tell me how to clear the web-cach? Thanks for your answer

Thanks for your points. I already work with doxygen. It's really good. Unfortunately I have only a graphical output. What I now need is a "graph-like" output-structure which I can parse by myself to automate physical-design issues Kind regards

Since this morning VStudio 2008 refuses to work. I wanted to open VStudio by double-clicking a sln-file. VStudio opened for approximately 1 seconds and than it closed again (automatically) If I open VStdio directly by starting from start-menu (without double-clicking a sln-file) than it opens. BUT: When I try to load a sln-file via menu (file-open solution) than I get the following message: "Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close" I have no idea! I also observed that VStudio blocked some actions for a very long time the last days. Does anybody have some idea?