[kilohertz]

Bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD move by Rational.

IBM is where good companies go to die.

You say that like it's a bad thing. :-)

I had to use Rational Rose a few years back, and IMHO it hurt more than helped for writing C++ code. They had a miserable GUI coupled with a screwed-up scheme for "automatic" code generation where Rose would generate the header files and empty definitions for the functions (the easy part), and the programmer had to wade into a file that looked like so many random characters to write the actual code. Instead of just writing the code, we had to spend all kinds of time figuring out how to get the "tool" to spit out the right thing.

Anyway, I'm still bitter about it.

[BuddhaBoy]

I use the current version of Rose with VS.NET. It appears that they have solved most of the code generation issues.

The biggest problem with Rose, is that it takes as long to learn to use correctly, as it does to just code up your project. Rose and the rest of the Rational Suite is unsuitable for anything but the largest of projects, unless (like me) you can get the tools and training for free.

Because I work for a number of companies at any one time, Rational's tools have been very helpful to me from a modeling perspective, and the XDE works well with both C# and VB.NET code-gen.

There is a pretty good discussion going on over at Slashdot about this very thing.