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Chapter 10, Work with Visual Studio Tools

#81 Generate Code from UML

HACK

View the Code

Now that you’ve generated your class code from Visio, go take a look at it.

Go to the location that you chose in the preceding steps. You should see a

folder with the name of your solution. The solution folder will contain a

Visual Studio Solution file as well as a folder with the project name you

specified. For instance, in this example, the solution is named Generate-

CodeFromUML and the project is named VehicleLibrary.

Double-click your generated solution file to open a new instance of Visual

Studio. Chances are the IDE will show the Class1.cs file in the editor. But

wait, you say, I didn’t create a class named

Class1 in Visio. Right you are.

The best I can figure is that this is a small quirk with Visio’s code generator.

You can either ignore this file or just delete it.

The important thing is that you will see a file for each of your classes in the

Solution Explorer, as shown in Figure 10-36.

At this point, you have a fully functional project in Visual Studio; you can

now begin to modify it as needed. But first, take a look at the generated

code. Here is the code for the abstract base class

Vehicle:

// Static Model

public abstract class Vehicle

{

public string Make;

public string Model;

Figure 10-35. The Generate dialog