.Net Automation

[pneutam]

Hi,

I've been trying to automate EA from C# and have struck a few problems.

I was hoping to use early binding from C#, but there is no EA type library in the VS.Net COM references dialog

Trying a lower-level method, running Tlbimp.exe on EA.exe (thought the type library might be embedded here), also fails with the error 'The input file ... is not a valid type library'.

So, is there a way to early bind to EA from C#?

If there is a .tlb file associated with the EA.exe that could be registered, I would love to get hold of it.

Cheers,
pneutam

[Steve_Straley]

Pneutam,

I ask a similar question before I headed down this road and the reply I received was the following:

"maybe VB.Net will be integrated as well. I did all my testing using VB.Net.

C# and the automation interface are more diffcult at the moment - although we hope to improve this support in the near future also."

This was some time back and we haven't moved over to C# to test this out but I hope this helps in the meantime.

Cheers,

Steve

[pneutam]

Thanks for the info Steve,

I have gone ahead with using late binding in C#, building wrappers for the underlying EA objects. It's a little more verbose in C# than in VB.Net, but still works.

I might put up a sample when I'm done

[Steve_Straley]

Hi,

That would be cool if you could do an example.   I don't think there would be that being of a speed impact on late versus early; however, it does open a can of worms with parameter validations.   I know we will be getting into all of that once I give the go ahead to move over to C#.

Cheers,

Steve