Sparx Enterprise Architect supports AddIns so we can enhance its functionality and behaviour in our daily work life as an architect. This is normally done by adding a subkey to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sparx Systems\EAAddins key. This is described in Geert Bellekens’ Tutorial: Create your first C# Enterprise Architect addin in 10 minutes. As we can read […]
Bridging the gap between business processes and information systems
* GitHub Ronald Rink http://github.com/dfch
* GitHiub d-fens http://github.com/dfensgmbh
Registering a Sparx Enterprise Architect AddIn on Windows 10 x64 without administrative permissions
2018-09-01 by Leave a Comment
[HOWTO] Add ListBox to Visio Sheet and access it in Visual Basic
2018-06-15 by 4 Comments
Last week I had to deal with Visual Basic in Microsoft Visio Professional 2016. I wanted to fill a ListBox with items containing data from an Excel file. First I searched for a ListBox shape in the shapes pane of Visio and added a ListBox shape to the sheet. However I could not access it […]
[NoBrainer] Connecting Enterprise Architect Interfaces with PowerShell
2018-06-02 by Leave a Comment
In one of our projects we needed to create a lot of components that expose interfaces. The steps to design this in EA are quite tedious: Link the Interface to the diagram of our component. Create a ProvidedInterface and attach it to the component Set the name of the ProvidedInterface to the name of the […]
[HOWTO] Install Infineon TPM Firmware Update
2018-05-29 by Leave a Comment
Last week Windows Defender Security Center alerted me to a firmware update of the security processor (TPM). Clicking on Learn more took me to a support website of Microsoft containing a step by step guide and some information about the firmware update (see here). According to the guide I had to download the firmware update […]
[Bug] Sparx Enterprise Architect v14.0 Build 1421 breaks using Deployment Diagrams
2018-05-28 by Leave a Comment
A quick one: last Friday, Sparx released an update to its Enterprise Architect v14.0. When I installed it today I noticed that all of a sudden I could no longer use the Deployment Connector to connect an Artifact with an Execution Environment. However, the same morning it still worked. The error message I now get […]
Bugslayer: 10 days into EA14
2018-05-21 by 1 Comment
My first 10 days into EA14 have passed by and I am discovering some issues ranging from nuisances to real distractors … So here is my list of bugs and SO questions. I will update the list as I receive updates from Sparx or other sources. CaseId 18058962 – confirmed Package Validation in Enterprise Architect […]
Extracting RTF Documents from XMI Files with PowerShell
2018-05-15 by Leave a Comment
Enterprise Architect allows you to create custom document templates to be used in your reports. Internally EA uses the oldie-goldie RTF document format for these templates. When exporting these templates via Export Reference Data they are included as base64 encoded zipped RTF documents which in turn are again base64 encoded. For the untrained eye it […]
[NoBrainer] Automating Sparx Enterprise Architect with PowerShell
2018-05-12 by 2 Comments
It has been some time since I have last posted something on our blog, so I will start with something easy: today I made the switch from Sparx Enterprise Architect v13.5 to v14.0. And yes, it really paid off since I now can actually decipher all those small connector icons on my Surface Book 2 […]
[HOWTO] Send Mails and Create Calendar Entries with the Office365/Exchange 2016 REST API using PowerShell
2018-04-09 by Leave a Comment
After playing around with the Office 365/Exchange 2016 REST API I decided to summarize the knowledge and the experiences I gained in this blog post. The goal of the tryout session was to check out the Outlook endpoints for messages and calendars. To be more precise, I wanted to try out the following features. Reading […]
WPF Series -10- InkCanvas with initial StrokeCollection
2018-02-09 by 2 Comments
One of the requirements our WPF project had to meet describes the ability to create a sketch of the sewage shaft for which data is collected. The functional acceptance criteria are the following. There has to be an area on the form to create a sketch of the sewage shaft using Surface Pen, touchscreen or […]
