"Chris Mullins" <cmull***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Curtis Justus" <nospam@cjustus.m.s.com> wrote
>>
>> Until now, our company has not required us to use UML.  I am looking for
>> some suggestions of some books that might help me to get up to speed.
>
> I've had mixed results with this. I've taught UML classes, and been
> through this quite a bit. I've never come across something I really liked.
>
> I've had better luck with more specialized books - "Uml with Viso" or "Uml
> with Rational" than I have with the more pure Uml books. I remember quite
> liking "Professional Uml with Visual Studio .Net". This wasn't a great UML
> book, but it really went through how to do basic UML with Visio and that
> helped quite a bit.
>
> (Ah! FxCop is affecting everything I type. I'm used to typing "Uml" (and
> "Xml") in code now, so that it passes FxCop naming rules. Problem is
> they're supposed to be "UML" and "XML". Ugh.)
>
> --
> Chris Mullins
>

> Hello everybody,
>
> Until now, our company has not required us to use UML.  I am looking for
> some suggestions of some books that might help me to get up to speed.
>
> There are two books I am looking at:
>
> UML Distilled (Third Edition)
> Writing Effective Use Cases (Cockburn)
>
> Are there any others that people may suggest?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> cj