Addins

[Maggie]

Hi
How does one debug an addin using visual studio?
I cant run it as an application as it is a class library

Thanks

Maggie

[philchudley]

Hi Maggie

One option is to set EA.exe as the external program on the Debug tab for your add-in solution project.

When you build / debug your add-in, Visual Studio will launch EA and then you will be able to test your add-in.

The option is, after building, launch EA as usual and then you should be able to access your add-in

For more info, goto the Sparx Community site, where you will find excellent add-in tutorials and other resources by Geert Bellekens

Also the EA user guide is pretty good at getting started with add-ins
Don't forget to create the registry entries that EA needs since Visual Studio won't do that for you.

Best of luck

Cheers

Phil

[Maggie]

Thanks!!

[fwoolz]

Hi,

There are some things to look out for when debugging an EA add-in:

1. To run the add-in as it would normally run in production, you need to register the add-in for COM and create an EA add-in registry entry so EA can find the add-in.
2. You can't overwrite the registered add-in assembly with a newly-built assembly with EA running - EA will lock the current assembly and prevent overwriting it.
3. For the same reason, you can't use Visual Studio integration with EA while developing your add-in - the running instance of EA started by VS integration will do the same as in 2., above.

HTH,
Fred W