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About EcoV and roadmap

franklt69 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:16:37 GMT

Hi, I have an web app in c# builder 2006 (.net1.1, EcoIII) I would like to change to .net3.5, (Eco for VS) but I have doubt, to migrate to ECOIV I have to do again the model, because now the model is in Together, EcoIV has ModelMaker, I read in some thread that EcoV will have a new class design, the doubt I have to re-done the class model again, is there some idea to do tools to migrate from EcoIII or EcoIV to EcoV?, when we can hope to watch EcoV in action?

any info is welcome.

regards
Frank

RE: About EcoV and roadmap

Jonas Hogstrom — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:16:37 GMT

We hope to make the upgrade as painless as possible. Worst case is to generate the new code and manually move the hand written code from the old classes to the new classes. I did this with an internal model, and for ~20 classes, it took maybe half an hour to move the code (after I had fixed a couple of codegen bugs :-) Now that the model import is almost done I'll start to look at the upgrading of EcoModeler generated code.

RE: About EcoV and roadmap

Joe Hendricks — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:49:06 GMT

Is there any advice for those of us starting new ECO4 projects to make the ECO5 transition easier?

For example, will it be easy to split classes into partial classes after import into ECO5's class designer?

- Joe Hendricks

RE: About EcoV and roadmap

Jonas Hogstrom — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:27:41 GMT

The new designer will use the same format for saving models as the Together designer (ecopkg-files).

There will be an import tool for EcoModeler models (both model and diagram). EcoIII users will be able to import the model, but we are not planning to import the Together diagrams.

We plan to start field testing Eco5 in Q3.