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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 in the tutorial, in addition […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 is: The requested connection is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When we used ListBox controls in our WPF project we faced the same problem as described in the previous post. Like DataGrid, ListBox control also has a property called SelectedItems, which isn’t a dependency property and therefore not bindable too. This post shows how ListBox control can be extended with a bindable version of the SelectedItems property. First we have […]
According to MVVM pattern the ViewModel interacts with the Model but doesn’t know anything about its View. As a result dependency properties of controls get bound to ViewModel properties by specifying bindings in the corresponding View (XAML). DataGrid control has a property called SelectedItems, which in multi selection mode holds the items that are selected. Unfortunately SelectedItems of DataGrid is […]
As we often use Data Annotations for basic validation purposes in context of C#/.NET applications (i.e. required, max length, …), we searched for a solution that allows using Data Annotations […]
Today my boss asked me to extend the session lifetime for Outlook Web App to have a lower login frequency. As described in the article Session timeouts for Office 365 the session timeout is set to 6 hours by default. To change the session timeout the following steps have to be executed. Connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell Open a […]
While developing an UWP application I wanted to log unhandled exceptions. My coach mentioned that in WPF you can register a exception handler to handle unhandled exceptions globally. In UWP it works exactly the same way. Add Unhandled Exception Handler NOTE: This solution does not prevent your app from crashing and exiting. This solution only lets you react to unhandled […]
In the previous blog post of this series I wrote about binding ComboBox or ListBox to an enum. Using just the approach described there exposes the enum values directly in […]
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