Best Tools for Model-Driven Software Development

tangible engineering is committed to model-driven development on the Microsoft .NET platform. Our tools are used by 100.000 users worldwide.

Improve your development team's productivity and reduce costs

In today's software markets, where custom applications directly compete with lower cost standard software applications and standard applications compete with one another, construction costs and time-to-market are the most crucial technical success factors. Team productivity is the key to reduce both.

The Solution: Model-Driven Code Generation

To improve competitiveness of custom software it is necessary to borrow quality attributes, low cost and short time-to-implementation from standard software. Typically these goals are reached by means of software reuse. However, in the domain of database applications it's important to see that the application model is very specific. Therefore the application must be modeled and reuse has to occur by means of generating executable, quality-assured code from these models.

The Products

• tangible modeling tools - UML Style Modeling Tools for Visual Studio
• tangible T4 Editor - A T4 Code Generation Editor for Visual Studio
• tangible T4 Software Factories - Predefined T4 Code-Templates to generate .NET 4 and Silverlight solutions from UML models
• tangible architect - a model driven code-generator for .NET 2.0 / WinForms