Altova MissionKit adds VS2010 support

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2010 Release 3 also supports industry standards iXBRL and NIEM, plus mapping of data based on SAP’s IDoc EDI format.

Altova MissionKit 2010 is an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools designed to meet the diverse development and data management needs of today’s software architects and XML developers.

Altova MissionKit for XML Developers provides tools for XML development, Web & Web services development, Data mapping & integration, rendering & publishing XML, XBRL and DB data. The following editions are available:

In addition, Altova MissionKit for Software Architects provides tools for UML modeling and database querying, design, & comparison. The following editions are available:

Updates in 2010 Release 3

XMLSpy 2010r3
With the release of v2010r3, the XMLSpy XML editor adds new usability enhancements to its graphical schema editor, including the ability to validate internal naming and coding conventions. The enhanced XMLSpy graphical schema editor allows schema designers to validate naming and coding conventions outside of the capabilities of the XML Schema standard. This new functionality is of key importance for users working with NIEM, a U.S. Government XML-based standard, when implementing their information sharing exchanges. Another new feature in XMLSpy 2010r3 is support for creating user-defined sample values for XML instance generation. Users can now add arbitrary sample data to their XML instance generations allowing them to control the sample data that is published. XMLSpy 2010r3 also integrates with Visual Studio 2010, adding to its existing support for VS 2005 and VS 2008.
MapForce 2010r3
Several new usability enhancements have been added to MapForce 2010r3 for generating C++ code, as well as working with XML, Excel 2007+, and EDI. Altova’s data mapping tool has upgraded its C++ code generator to MSXML6. Support for MSXML6 improves the quality of C++ code generated from MapForce mappings, making it less likely to require modifications before it is integrated into other applications or reused for recurrent transformations. MapForce 2010r3 is now also able to generate C++ build configurations for 64-bit applications. For SAP users, the latest release of MapForce provides support for mapping data based on SAP’s IDoc EDI format. Another new feature in v2010r3 is support for the xsi:nil attribute in XML Schema. This enables MapForce to execute mappings where this attribute is used. For users working in Excel 2007+ support has been added for mapping field names. MapForce can now also preserve value formatting in the XML output to ensure that formatting is maintained from source to target. Additionally v2010r3 supports the newest release of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010.
StyleVision 2010r3
StyleVision, Altova’s visual stylesheet and electronic forms designer now supports iXBRL, or Inline XBRL. Adopted by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which provides XBRL oversight in the United Kingdom, the iXBRL standard embeds XBRL fragments into a HTML document so that the same source can be used for both human and machine processing. With support for iXBRL, StyleVision 2010r3 can automatically generate iXBRL reports based on XBRL instance files. Users can also select from formatting options to ensure reports are displayed correctly. For both StyleVision and Authentic users, v2010r3 supports the creation of Global Templates for any element. This enables users to create modular designs and manage large documentation efforts with ease. Version 2010r3 also provides support for Visual Studio 2010.
UModel 2010r3
UModel v2010r3 is the first full-featured UML 2 tool with support for C# 4.0, the latest version of the C# programming language, for both generating code in C# 4.0 projects and reverse engineering C# 4.0 code to create UML models. Altova’s UML tool also adds new support for protocol state machine diagrams, with a specialized diagram toolbar. Version 2010r3 includes a new sequence diagram option as well as a new diagram autolayout option for displaying modeling elements. UModel 2010r3 also supports Visual Studio 2010.
DatabaseSpy 2010r3
In v2010r3, DatabaseSpy, Altova’s unique multi-database query, design, and compare tool allows users to easily process binary data in a column of database table that is defined as a binary data type. Users can now upload binary data into the table from an external file, or save binary data from the database to an external file. Data types supported include: BLOB, raw, binary, varbinary, image, and others depending on the database type.
DiffDog 2010
DiffDog v2010r3 further expands its XML-aware capabilities with new support for processing child element attributes and child element names. This new feature in Altova’s diff/merge tool can now recognize child elements solely by attribute, so that files containing duplicate child element names with varying attributes are also recognized as equivalent XML data.

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http://www.altova.com/Version2010Release3_Launch_050510.html

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Altova accelerates development and integration projects with software, services, and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of leading software development tools - including XMLSpy, the preeminent product in its class - Altova is the choice of over 1.5 million clients worldwide and virtually every Fortune 500 company. With customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software applications and custom-tailored professional and educational services fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent development solutions that are powerful, affordable and easy-to-use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria.

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