Recently I decided to do another certification. Since I was able to gain some experience in the context of testing in the last years and because testing is an interesting and important topic, I decided to go for a foundation level certification in testing. ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) is a global provider of […]
Bridging the gap between business processes and information systems
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Converting Sparx Enterprise Architect Baseline Information from XML into C# objects
2019-08-11 by Leave a Comment
In this post I will show you how to easily work with Sparx Enterprise Architect Baseline information in C#. Baseline processing in Enterprise Architect is exposed via the ProjectClass (EA.Repository.GetProjectInterface()). From there we have to use a two-step approach to get a baseline and its stored information: Invoke project.GetBaselines() with a PackageGuid to get the […]
[NoBrainer] Simplifying and Speeding Up Testing in Sparx Enterprise Architect
2019-08-09 by Leave a Comment
Today’s post will be rather quick. I will show you how a unit/integration test class that can interact with real model data in Sparx Enterprise Architect. Beyond the well known Interop.EA assembly there is another assembly called SparxSystems.Repository that provides the intersting feature to connect to a running EA instance: Services.GetRepository(). We can use this […]
Easy Conversion from Enterprise Architect XML SQL Queries to C# Objects
2019-07-05 by 1 Comment
In this article I show you how to easily convert arbitrary SQL query results in Enterprise Architect to native C# objects. The Enterprise Architect object model provides several methods which you can use to make direct SQL queries against the underlying database. And while Repository.GetElementSet really returns a Collection of native EA.Elements (but not connectors) […]
Using Enterprise Architect Add-In Search Methods with XmlSerializer
2019-06-30 by Leave a Comment
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect supports the extension of the built-in search functionality by creating search queries with add-ins called Add-In Search. In this article I show you how to create an Add-In search that returns results to the “Find in Project” dialogue using an XML serialiser. Add-In Search Methods XML structure Serialisation Add-In Search Methods […]
WPF Series -13- Advanced Installer
2018-12-03 by 2 Comments
The last post in this series deals with the packaging of a WPF application. To simplify the installation of our WPF application we decided to package the application as MSI (Microsoft Installer) using Advanced Installer. In the following I show you the most important steps in using Advanced Installer. Prerequisites Download Advanced Installer Install Visual […]
WPF Series -12- Global Exception Logging
2018-12-03 by 3 Comments
During development and debugging of our WPF application some exceptions occurred which were not caught by the code. Such unhandled exceptions are not logged automatically. In order to obtain information about any unhandled exceptions in production and to simplify error analysis, we looked for a way to handle and log unhandled exceptions. After some research […]
WPF Series -11- Custom MetroDialog
2018-12-03 by 3 Comments
After a long break it’s finally time to continue with the WPF series. Today I’ll show you how we implemented a custom metro dialog. Our dialog contains 2 comboboxes and gets displayed during data export to determine the accuracy of the data to be exported. Let’s have a look at the code. AccuracySelectionDialog.xaml First we […]
