Chapter 26. IDE Integration

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How to integrate Visual Paradigm with Visual Studio

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Visual Paradigm enables you to integrate the visual modeling environment with Visual Studio, providing full software development life cycle support. By designing your software system in Visual Paradigm, you can generate programming source code from class diagram to an Visual Studio project. Also, you can reverse engineer your source code into class models in Visual Paradigm.

Visual Studio integration overview

Installation

First of all, please make sure you have Visual Studio 2008 or above installed. To install Visual Studio Integration from Visual Paradigm:

  1. In Visual Paradigm, select Window > Integration > IDE Integration… from the toolbar.
  2. Select Visual Studio Integration. You can run Visual Paradigm in multiple IDEs. In other words, if you need you can select multiple IDEs here. Click Next.
    Select Visual Studio Integration
  3. Select the version of Visual Studio to integrate with. Click Next to start copying files to your IDE.
    Version of Visual Studio

Notes: The installation process will modify/add files under your IDE installation directory. For Windows user, you may need to run Visual Paradigm as administrator in order to allow it to run through the installation process with the required permission. To run Visual Paradigm as administrator, right click on its executable in the bin folder or its shortcut and select Run as Administrator to start it up.

Un-Installation

To remove the installation with an integrated IDE, perform an uninstallation.

  1. In Visual Paradigm, select Window > Integration > IDE Integration… from the toolbar.
  2. Select the radio button Uninstall.
  3. Select Visual Studio Integration.
    Select Visual Studio integration for uninstallation
  4. Click Next.
  5. Click Next for file removal.