EA 12: possible to install Add-in without admin rights (no access to registry)?

[Christian Freihoff]

We are thinking about developing some add-in for Sparx EA. But due to some circumstances, we would like to be able to integrate the add-in into an aready installed instance of EA on a client which does not offer administrative access (e.g., registry can not be called or changed).

[qwerty]

That will probably give you a hard time since the add-ins are registered. You could only go the outside way without registering. Means you have to call a tool from outside EA. Or maybe Geert's EA-Matic would be a way to go?

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

There is actually a way to install an add-in without admin rights.
As a regular user you still have access to the HKCU hive of the registry, and that can be enough.
I once started an add-in manager that did all that. Because of other priorities it never got finished, but the core worked.
See https://github.com/GeertBellekens/Enterprise-Architect-Toolpack/tree/master/EAAddinManager for more details

Geert

[Uffe]

Hello Christian,

There's nothing EA-specific about this question.
An EA Add-In is simply a DLL, which has to be registered.

So the question really is "how do I register a Windows DLL without admin rights?"
Like most questions of this nature, it's been asked several times over on Stack Overflow. You'll find some pointers here and here.

HTH,


/Uffe