Visio 2003 Professional does not support forward engineering of databases.
Like Visio 2002 Professional, it can reverse engineer them. Forward
engineering is provided by Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect Edition.
Contrary to the name, this product actually contains Visio 2002 but it
includes forward engineering features. A new version of Visual Studio EA
based on the Visio 2003 product and including forward engineering will be
released in the future, but a date has not been set.
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Mark Nelson
Microsoft Corporation
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"Pooja" <pooja.RemoveThis@induslogic.com> wrote in message
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> I want to buy Visio for Database designing.
> (Can someone with Visio 2003 just create a new Database
> Diagram and confirm if the new database menu contains an
> option like "Generate")
>
> I know that Visio 2002 professional version only has
> reverse engineering capabilities and hence did not use it.
> Recently I came to know that 2002 enterprise/architect
> versions contained this feature. Now, I want to know if
> 2003 contains it and & if yes which version?
>
> But the comparisons on the product page give absolutely no
> impression about forward-engg. It only says backward-engg
> and lists as present in 2002 and 2003. no mention of any
> versions of 2002. Hence I don't know till what level is it
> present in 2003.
>
> (Can someone with Visio 2003 just create a new Database
> Diagram and confirm if the new database menu contains an
> option like "Generate")<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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