Testing VP Suite 2.1 Early Access without Affecting the Existing Installation

The release of the VP Suite 2.1 provides the CASE Tools, including Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML), Smart Development Environment (SDE) and DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) and DB-VA SQL. You can test the early access of the VP Suite 2.1 without affecting the existing installation.

Visual Paradigm for UML

If you want to test the early access of Visual Paradigm for UML 5.1 with your existing projects, you are suggested to perform the following steps for the first start-up of VP-UML 5.1 after installation.

Note: Project which is converted from older version to version 5.1 cannot be opened in older version of VP-UML.

By following the steps below, testing your existing project from the new workspace will not affect your existing project upon save.

Launch Visual Paradigm for UML 5.1. The Workspace Launcher dialog box shows.
Specify a new workspace location for VP-UML 5.1 by using the button.

Note: Please do not select the existing workspace as the workspace for VP-UML 5.1 to avoid affecting the projects in the current workspace.
Press the Import Workspace... button to open the Import Workspace dialog box.
Select the existing workspace for the Path by using the button, click OK. All the settings, user interface perspectives and other preferences defined in the existing workspace will be imported to the new workspace for VP-UML 5.1, and all projects saved in the existing workspace will be copied to the new workspace.
As the existing projects have been copied to the new workspace, you can test the project with VP-UML 5.1 by opening the project from the new workspace.
- On the menu, select File > Open Project....
  
  Note: DO NOT open the project by clicking on the list of Recent Projects on the Start Page as the projects listed on the Recent Projects are linked to the existing workspace for the existing version of VP-UML instead of the new workspace for VP-UML 5.1.

Remark: If you want to test the project which is outside the current workspace, please copy the project to the new workspace and open the project from the new workspace.

Smart Development Environment

If you want to test the early access of Smart Development Environment 3.1 with your existing projects, you are suggested to perform the following steps for the first start-up of SDE 3.1 after installation. By following the steps, your existing project which is in older version will not be affected upon save.

Note: Project which is converted from older version to version 3.1 cannot be opened in older version of SDE for IDE.

Let’s take the SDE for Eclipse as an example.

Install a new Eclipse, which will be integrated with SDE 3.1 for Eclipse, to your machine.
Install SDE-EC 3.1 to the home directory of the new Eclipse.
Launch SDE-EC 3.1. The Elipse Workspace Launcher dialog box shows.
Specify a new workspace location for Eclipse by the Browse... button.
Note: Please select a new Eclipse workspace instead of the existing Eclipse workspace to avoid affecting the projects in the current workspace.
Copy the existing Eclipse projects from the existing workspace to the newly created workspace.
Import the Eclipse project from the new workspace by selecting File > Import... from the menu.
After imported the Eclipse project from new workspace, you can test the project with the SDE-EC 3.1 environment.

DB Visual ARCHITECT

If you want to test the early access of DB Visual ARCHITECT 3.0 with your existing projects, you are suggested to perform the following steps for the first start-up of DB-VA 3.0 after installation.

Note: Project which is converted from older version to version 3.0 cannot be opened in older version of DB-VA.

Testing your existing project from the new workspace by the following steps will not affect the project in the old workspace upon save.

Launch DB Visual ARCHITECT 3.0. The Workspace Launcher dialog box shows.
Specify a new workspace location for DB-VA 3.0 by using the button.

Note: Please select a new workspace for DB-VA 3.0 instead of the existing workspace for DB-VA to avoid affecting the projects in the current workspace.
Press the Import Workspace... button to open the Import Workspace dialog box.
Select the existing workspace for the Path by using the button, click OK. All the settings, user interface perspectives and other preferences defined in the existing workspace will be imported to the new workspace for DB-VA 3.0, and all projects saved in the existing workspace will be copied to the new workspace.
As the existing projects have been copied to the new workspace, you can test the project with DB-VA 3.0 by opening the project from the new workspace.
- On the menu, select File > Open Project....
  
  Note: DO NOT open the project by clicking on the list of Recent Projects on the Start Page as the projects listed on the Recent Projects are linked to the existing workspace for the existing version of DB-VA instead of the new workspace for DB-VA 3.0.