Question

Simple question really. No elaboration required.

I have found similar tools for Java, C#, C++ and other languages but not VB.Net.

Thanks

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I don’t know of a plugin for StarUML that will generate VB.NET code, however, if using a different modelling tool is a possibility, Sparx System’s Enterprise Architect will generate code in VB.NET (as well as many other languages).

Enterprise Architect enables you to
generate source code from UML model
elements, creating a source code
equivalent of the Class or Interface
element for future elaboration and
compilation. In particular you can
generate C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java,
PHP, Python, ActionScript, Visual
Basic and VB.NET source code. The
source code generated includes Class
definitions, variables and function
stubs for each attribute and method in
the UML Class.

Unfortunately, Enterprise Architect is not free nor is it open source, however, there is a full functional 30 day trial available, along with discount options for academic pricing (if appropriate).

If you’re looking to stay with free and/or open source software, I think the closest for VB.NET code generation would be to use a couple of tools in conjunction with each other:

Dia is an open source, GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license. You can use this to create your UML diagrams. From there, you would use:

Project: CodeGen from Novell, which will take the UML diagrams saved/exported from Dia and convert them into skeleton C# or VB.NET code.

If you’re prepared to look at a more “general purpose” code generator, this page:
Generators that build VB.NET
will give you a good starting list of tools that will generate VB.NET code.