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This blog post serves as a thought support and describes the necessary steps to create a Sparx Enterprise Architect project in a Microsoft Azure SQL database. Prerequisites Enterprise Architect v14 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18 (for direct download click here) Enterprise Architect Schema Creation Scripts for Microsoft SQL Server EASchema_1220_SQLServer.sql EASchema_1220_SQLServer_Update1.sql Enterprise Architect Initial […]
This is a follow-up to the blog post [HOWTO] Convert Images to Enterprise Architect Model Images. As already described there, we wanted to use the official cisco network topology icons (B/W: EPS (7.6 MB) | JPG (4 MB)) in Enterprise Architect to associate them with elements. The import of the images into Enterprise Architect has […]
We wanted to use the official cisco network topology icons (B/W: EPS (7.6 MB) | JPG (4 MB)) in Enterprise Architect to associate them with elements. To avoid importing these icons manually one by one we automated this process by creating model images reference data using PowerShell. The model images reference data can then be […]
Developing an AddIn for Sparx Enterprise Architect is tedious, even with the existence of support such as the great work of Geert Bellekens. However, since Visual Studio 2015 we can use the C# Interactive Console which allows us to fire up an instance of Enterprise Architect and test our code interactively before putting it into […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
