Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio

The final day of your 21-day journey to learning about Visual Studio .NET covers a seldom-used technology—seldom used until now, that is. Using Visio, which is part of the Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect version, you can create complex yet easy-to-understand data models. Data modeling has always been pushed to the side when it comes to writing applications—most of the time it's an afterthought. But using the tools provided by Visio and Visual Studio .NET, you can create very useful data models that represent your applications. Today, you learn

• What object role modeling is

• How to create data models using Visio

• How to create a database diagram from an ORM model

• How to create a SQL Server database from Visio