Audit and Consulting of Information Systems and Business Processes
I grabbed the task to transfer a Enterprise Architect repository from one MSSQL server to another. Sparx Enterprise Architect ships with an action called “Project Transfer” that supports repository transfer from DBMS to DBMS, so I decided to use this built-in functionality. Before the project transfer can be started the transfer type (in my case […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
