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from the how-did-they-model-the-removal? dept.
Microsoft has decided to drop the UML (Unified Modeling Language) designer tools from Visual Studio 15, reports Paul Krill at IT World. MS sales and support teams confirmed that few customers were actually using the feature.
"Removing a feature is always a hard decision, but we want to ensure that our resources are invested in features that deliver the most customer value," said Microsoft's Jean-Marc Prieur, senior program manager for Visual Studio.
I've almost never had occasion to use UML professionally other than a few hand drawn designs on scrap paper that were thrown away. I did have a coworker who had a tool that generated UML from code that was sometimes helpful when he explained his work in review sessions. In school UML appeared to be a nightmare that was used for modelling everything but software, yet academics talked about UML one day becoming executable and replacing code.
Do you use UML? Are you going to miss this feature in Visual Studio?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 21 2016, @02:09PM
So how much does it cost to deploy a few hundred, let alone a few hundred thousand Microsoft OSes again? And how much for Linux?
And which OS do developers actually use? (I'll answer that with the observation that Microsoft admitted that the reason they put Bash on Windows was to lure developers back.)
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.